Re: [Re: (TFT) WHHHHHYYYYYYY?????]

[alan robles <alanrobles@usa.net>]

I'm a journalist, a job where you really meet lots of NICE people. Role
playing alowed me to name villains after people at work and in the office and
watch in glee while the players hacked them to pieces. I KNOW I'M NOT ALONE IN
THIS PRACTICE. CONFESS

alan

 
>      One of my earliest memories is of my grandmother (a teacher) who took 
> me on a tour of her work one summer and stopped at a door.  She said "This 
> is kinder-garden.  This is where you will be going to school next year."  I

> remember looking at the door and imagining behind it a bunch of little 
> garden rows.  Of course you would start with gardening!  Then when it was 
> time to learn math we would already have something to add up.  I can?t tell

> you how disappointed I was the next year when all we did was a lot of paper

> work.  I kept waiting for the day when  the paperwork would finish and they

> would take us out to the garden.
> 
>      Once my grandmother came over for a visit and we were playing army in 
> the yard.  She came running out of the house and said "Stop that!  Don?t you

> know what you play as children is what you will become when you grow up?"  I

> had just been killed and was lying on the ground.  I remember looking up and

> thinking I?ll probably grow up to do paperwork.
> 
>      All these different areas of knowledge.  It is impossible for someone 
> to be a renaissance man in the modern world.  A man who is a doctor, lawyer,

> engineer, and scientist all rolled into one.  What is it now?  Eight hundred

> degrees just within the field of engineering alone.  I was just formulating

> my thesis that only a tight group of people, a small community, could 
> collectively equal the renaissance ideal when we heard about D&D.
> 
>      School had all these different areas of knowledge but never brought 
> them together.  In role playing I found a use for all of my knowledge.  In 
> fact I started learning more.  We were quickly surprised to find that no 
> matter how much we learned, there was always more.  My math grades started 
> going up.  In role playing I finally found a single use for all that school

> had to offer.  Not only that, but a group to share it with.  Role playing 
> was the first thing I had ever seen  where everyone would get up, turn off 
> the TV, and the radio, sit down around a table and actually listen to each 
> other.
> 
>       I would also get to create gardens.
> 
>                        David Michael Grouchy II
> 
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