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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sodalis" data-source="post: 204906" data-attributes="member: 1791">I am doing some outside research on the history of gaming, and its many intricacies... as with any other hobby, there are many layers to the game.The most interesting is that there are specific red flags, or markers in personality traits that are signals as to people who are predisposed to gaming:1) military history/ war gaming2) fantasy literature3) knowledge of real-world mythology4) knowledge of social sciences5) knowledge of physical sciences6) knowledge of real-world mysticism Out of the six, except for real world mysticism, I would say that the list encompasses my interests and hobbies quite nicely.edit: I should clarify how each thing is personal to me...1) i liked medieval warfare.  not really into the modern nuke'em tactic, or the smart bombs, but more of the strategic management of foot soldiers and mass battles.  China's expertise.2) been reading it since I was five...3) greek/ roman are my favorite, but norse is also very high on the list.  I like the way man uses gods to explain things that they had no reason of explaination.  This is also very prevelant in Chinese and Japanese cultures.  4) i am a sociology major.  I like to study how a "people" think.  I can care less abotu how a person thinks, cause like chilibean said, "A PERSON is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it." - brilliant observation.  A person may have his head on straight, but rarely does he ever follow his mind, when the mass is against him...5) By the age of ten, i knew all the bones in body (save the vertebrate).  By 12, I was studying Gray's Anatomy.  During High School, I took supplementary biology classes at the community college cause the HS ones werent teaching me enough.  In college, I took all the biology courses available- but when it started to get involved in biochemistry- i had to swap majors.  6) not my thing... always thought mystics were a little (ironically) weird.How does it fare up to your interests and personality? you dont have to go into any detail.  i just wanted to show you that even something like gaming has had an in depth study done  on it... and it is very interesting.  Oh yeah, and there are a lot of interviews with the omoinous Gary Gygax telling of his pre-DND days, when he and his friends would gather around the coffee table and play wargames, using mystic races and classes derived from novels like LOTR.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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