How has playing D&D improved the quality of your life?
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Festivus
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My wife and I moved to a new area. She joined a club for young mothers, and made lots of friends. Because I was working I had no opportunities to make new friends... until I started playing D&D again. Now I have two groups of friends that I play D&D with every week. It's nice to have some face to face time with other human beings, instead of pixels on a computer.
MojoGM
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Crothian said:
Same here. I owned a game store back in 1997/1998, and some of my customers then are still friends to this day, long after the store was gone.
Also, gaming got me through a lot of uncertain times in my younger days, when our weekly game was the only stable element I had.
Now, of course, life is far more stable but it gives me something to blow my hard-earned cash on
GoodKingJayIII
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Driddle said:
Just like any good game. It's fun, creative, social, and gives me something to do.
James Heard
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Meh. Honestly I don't think that playing D&D has changed my "quality of life" much one way or the other. I'm pretty confident, from examining the times when I've had to put all the books away or ignore them, that I'm pretty well rounded and it's just another thing I do. If I didn't read gaming rulebooks I'd probably be reading other sorts of books, and when I'm not making friends gaming I pretty much meet people doing other things.
If anything, gaming has been more of cross to bear, a stigma to overcome occasionally because of people's preconceptions about gamers. But I'm realistic enough to note that I'd probably claim some other weird hobby in my youth without gaming being there that would be just as detrimental socially, if not worse. Sometimes these days I wish gaming involved more physical activity, because it would be nice to have a twenty yearish hobby-obsession that kept my belly more fit.
Really though, not much of a change I think, with or without gaming.
If anything, gaming has been more of cross to bear, a stigma to overcome occasionally because of people's preconceptions about gamers. But I'm realistic enough to note that I'd probably claim some other weird hobby in my youth without gaming being there that would be just as detrimental socially, if not worse. Sometimes these days I wish gaming involved more physical activity, because it would be nice to have a twenty yearish hobby-obsession that kept my belly more fit.
Really though, not much of a change I think, with or without gaming.
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