When Nerds have fun: Dungeons and Dragons (or Exalted)

kevin — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:58:17 -0500

I, like all true nerds, got into Dungeons and Dragons in high school.

It’s this great game where you make up a ‘character’, and ‘pretend’ to go wandering around in dungeons killing things and saving people. There’s this whole world of rules, even more complex than the real world!

Sometimes I wonder if i should have spent more time learning the rules of the real world, and less of this fictitious one. Because I keep switching systems that makes me re-learn the (rather arbitrary) rules.

Anyways, you sit around for an amazing length of time, like 6 hours, longer than I’ve ever been able to sit still before, but I guess this involves wrestling and drinking lots of coke.

Most of my life I spent trying to be more efficient, to pack getting more things done into less time. Adventuring seems like the opposite. I leave in a vaguely social state knowing I had fun but that it took us 6 hours to decide what color each other’s hair was.e

Still, I think there’s promise to worlds where we can escape reality. Religion always bothered me on that level, since I’m fairly happy with my ‘real world’ existence, but something about Adventuring allows me to express creativity in a way that the real world limits.

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Inspire Creativity: When Nerds have fun: Dungeons and Dragons (or Exalted)

When Nerds have fun: Dungeons and Dragons (or Exalted)