Things I've learned from Gaming.

[Dougal DeKree]

As long as you do nothing, everything will proceed like it already does. If you change a specific point you find noteworthy you can alter the flow of things.

Oh, and Spacemaster taught me "If you don't keep scanning your surroundings, you die." which is true for traffic, too.

 

[Thia Halmades]

Eh, the bulk of what I've learned from gaming is how to tell better stories. There's a lot to be said for writing, but the astonishing thing about D&D is writing in a dynamic world and the plot changes it forces. I've learned to be cleaner in my speech, clearer in my scripting, and become more aware of little details (thank you, overly complex combat systems).

I've learned tons of little things; the different elements of a ship, classes of warships, types of cannon and shot, variations on weaponry and how hard it is to write a history that isn't painfully derivitive. You get out what you put in.

 

[Mark Hope]

I learned to read and write heiroglyphics due to a worryingly obsessive Dark Ages game. Thankfully I am slowly forgetting this utterly useless information and replacing it with more practical stuff about heterotic membrane theory for an equally obsessive Mage game. Oh well.

 

[godawful]

i can really kick ass at scrabble now.

 

[diaglo]

no matter how unique i think i am. there is someone exactly like me just a few feet, yards, houses, streets, miles, states, countries away.

i goto conventions and it is like looking in a mirror.

 

[Jacinda]

smarts

Yes! I won a game of scrabble by laying donw METIS. Thank you world of darkness!

I have also learned how to harness and maintain the power of the Queen of Nerds.

 

[Bront]

I'll admit, thanks to gaming, my typing and spelling skills have improved tremendously, as well as my comunication skills.

I've learned how to program (Basic) thanks to gaming, when I wrote a basic character generator.

 

[Thanee]

english

Bye
Thanee

 

[demiurge1138]

The vocabulary has definately increased, and I now can identify different polearms at twenty paces.

Demiurge out.

 

[Dirigible]

Specialization as part of a team, is more effective than being a solo jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none.

Welcome to the species. Pull up a chair and s at Heinlein at your leisure.

I certainly agree that you get out what you put in. I'd also add that if you take a lot of the info in the game literally, you'll end up with some funny misconceptions. Like (Rule 1 Violation In Progress!) the fact that the longsword probably didn't exist.