what has your occupation brought to your game?

[Ravellion]

I have been a student for 7 years now, the last 3 years of which are English Literature Student, while English is not my first language.

I have taken ideas from Dickens' Great Expectations (actually using that phrase in a letter an NPC sent to a character, cause I knew my player wouldn't make the connection), MacBeth, a decent knowledge of feudality as well ancient myth.

I also make a mean mage guild after seeing a lot of advanced educational facilities (attended 5, visited several more )

Rav

 

[Lazybones]

Well, my current boring office job has given me the leisure to write a 350,000 word story hour...

But in another life I was a History Ph.D., and I find that my depth of historical knowledge enables me to better understand the interlocking forces that make a campaign world tick.

 

[Fenris]

Ph.D. Candidate Plant Molecular Genetics: Well not much directly, but I have picked up many ideas here and there in my educational quest for student tenure. Most recently ethnobotany has played a big role in letting me develop specific plant-based drugs for medicinal and psychotropic use. That and as was mentioned by Nail, I have a complete break down of biomes, climate effects, topography and other physical aspects of my homebrew world.

 

[Wormwood]

Graphic Designer: Basically, tons of handouts and maps. Really good ones, if I say so myself.

I'm eventually going to put some of my maps online (1" standard grids. Ships, streets, caves, etc).

 

[Kusuf ibn Zaid]

Astrophysicist: Enough knowledge of physics to know that D&D shouldn't be treated as a simulation of the real-world.

I used to include a lot of astrological puzzles until my players threatened to string me up if they saw one more trap whose defeat required knowing the relative positions of the sun and moon.

- Kusuf

 

[Joseph Elric Smith]

My current occupation has given me plenty of time to work on my game. :0 now my past careers in the service sector have given me insight to people an dhow larger groups interact. and just how rampant petty theft is
ken

 

[aurin777]

My Dm a few years ago was a geology major in college and currently works for the forest service. Many a game we ended up with discussions about botany and rock formations...
~~Brandon

 

[Zappo]

As a computer guy, I don't have much to bring to a D&D game.

 

[Zeddan]

Try a group of military aviators.
All Type-A personalities, all highly opiniated
and all experts on tactics.
Combat takes hours, as does everything else.
But, its still fun.

 

[Zeddan]

Try a group of military aviators.
All Type-A personalities, all highly opiniated
and all experts on tactics.
Combat takes hours, as does everything else.
But, its still fun.