Some successful authors attribute at least some of their success to playing Dungeons and Dragons.
“Those three years playing D&D at boarding school did more to ground me in storytelling, plot construction, and sheer, raw imaginative throughput than any other single activity of my life. Today I’m a successful fantasy and science fiction novelist with ten novels and over two hundred short stories in print or on the way. I might have gotten to this point by a different path, but it would not have been the same journey,”
-Jay Lake, author of ten novels.
“On a base level-and I’m saying this as a professional educator & curriculum designer-it’s great for getting kids to realize there’s a world beyond their own, and to put yourself in another world or make yourself think like somebody you’d never be. One of the nerdiest, most non-physical people I knew would always be a fighter or a ninja. But there’s something more than that: it reminds you of old-fashioned sitting-around-the-fire-and-storytelling, word-of-mouth stories.”
-Matthue Roth
Good to know I didn’t waste all of those hundreds of hours in college.
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