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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2672728" data-attributes="member: 14159">Gaming in general has given me friends.  For the first time in my life I found a social circle in my gaming club that I really could be comfortable with, friends I had common interests with, and a social life.Tabletop gaming in general helped me learn problem solving, planning, math and statistics, and strategy.  To a lesser degree it helped with social skills.I wouldn't have graduated college without playing Dungeons and Dragons.  Simple as that.  I'm regrettably no math genius, but to be a good D&D player you really have to learn a lot of probability and statistics.  When I finally took my required university math courses for graduation, one was entirely statistics, the other was very heavy into statistics (with exam questions like "If I roll 3 dice, what are the odds of rolling a sum of 18 on all three dice").  I thank D&D with teaching me what it took to pass my college math requirement.  I've learned a lot through Larping, it can be a a real pressure cooker of learning social skills and planning.  I consider my masterwork in this department pulling off a plan that took 2 & 1/2 years in a vampire larp that met biweekly, all while playing the same character and having everybody think I'm a weak and insignificant character below their notice (in a bloody game with loads of PvP and a very high mortality rate across several dozen players), while quietly amassing so much power that by the time anybody noticed, it's far too late for them to do anything about it.  Boffer-combat Larping has taught me a lot about being aware of my circumstances, being a light sleeper, always looking for the exits when I walk into a room, tactically sizing up a situation quickly, as well as really getting me into shape (and teaching me a lot about armormaking).</blockquote>

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