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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShadowRaven" data-source="post: 2859160" data-attributes="member: 28569"><p>saddly gameing did very little to help my education, however, a gamer friend did. Before he introduced me to AD&D he introduced me to Drizzt Do'Urden and RA Salvatores other works, which where set in a world, so different then my own dull and mundane one that I could not get enough. Already I could read at a university level (this was in grade 7) I just never cared to read much. Then I began an ascention into the great 'fantasy' literature. Tolkein then on to classics like Mary Shelly and Bram Stoker, and atlast to such heights (and depths) as Dante's 'Divine Comedy' My grasp of literature and the written word expanded greatly, and grew into an obsession. Soon I was helping write modules and scenarios for his regular gameing group, doing research into topics as varried as renisance fashions and geology. The war between science and the church, seen especially in some of the grat minds of the past, such as Galileo and DaVinci became one of the main themes in the world we created, with alchemy and wizardry takeing the place of science. So, I guess, if it wasn't for a good friend introduceing me first to an ebon skinned elf, and then on to the game that spawned him, I suppose my love of the written word and knowledge may never have developed</p></blockquote><p></p>