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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agglomérante" data-source="post: 355032" data-attributes="member: 7340">I think I'm on topic here. Sorry if i've misinterpreted the thread.From what I understand of the theory of emotional intelligence, it's a mix of nature and nurture and can be improved with practice throughout life, and the earlier started the better. The bummer about D&D (RPGs) is that it's easy to sink too much attention into the game, partly because the system implicitly demands it. "Too much" time invested in the game is necessarily time not spent developing social skills in less predictable (i.e., more challenging), ordinary, social situations. To put it in 3e terms, some people get fewer skill points than others, initially, but everybody acquires more in time and chooses where to put them.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Agglomérante"Caution! This is the second supplement to the highly addictive game DUNGEONS & DRAGONS. Handle it at your own risk. Even a brief perusal can infect the reader with a the desire to do heroic deeds, cast mighty magical spells, and seek to wrest treasure from hideous monsters. The most insidious factor, however, is the secondary nature of this work. Any reader who becomes infected from this work will immediately develop a craving for the other parts, i.e., DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS, GREYHAWK (supplement I), CHAINMAIL (medieval miniatures rules), polyhedra dice, and various and sundry other items. Anyone so completely exposed will certainly be hopelessly lost. In short, if you are not already an addict of fantasy adventure, put his booklet down quickly and flee!"-- Gary Gygax, Foreword to Blackmoor, 1975</blockquote>

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