Has roleplaying altered your world view?

[slimykuotoan]

(Here's where I may get in trouble)

Have RPGs created more empathy in you, or otherwise helped you with your career choices...or etcetera?

I know pour moi, I went from a heavy metal nobody -though I still love heavy metal- to a great DM, to university, to teaching overseas, to counselling in Canada, and now...to teaching again.

How has roleplaying helped you in anyway?

[Treebore]

Yes, it has. It continues to do so. The best of which is giving my kids and I great memories to share and keep of our great times gaming together.

The minimum it does is help keep me sane.
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[Emryys]

slimykuotoan wrote:
Has roleplaying altered your world view?

Yes... I look for imaginary things and take their stuff...
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[Rigon]

I think so. Three of my closest friends in the world are from my original gaming group.

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[gideon_thorne]

Considering I pretty much grew up with a diverse and free thinking group of people, some role players, some war gamers, some reenactors, some theatre, ect ect, I'd say its had a fair bit of influence, aye.

I tend towards being very thick skinned and quite tolerant of differences.
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[serleran]

Career choice? Sort of. Its let me get a little money now and then through freelancing. Otherwise, no, I have a "real job." But, altering my world view? No.

[Catweazle]

Naah, not really. It has helped me to articulate my creative impulse, for which the world of poetry should thank Mr Gygax effusively.

Even for a youngster, my poetry was bad.

EDIT:

Nope, that's a lie. I really should be straight with you if I'm bothering to answer. It has helped me in one very big way. I was painfully shy as a small child. RPGs helped me to overcome that and be more sociable.

I'm still very shy, and take a while to relax around people (for other reasons, which I won't go into here), but the skills I acquired then stand me in good stead to this day.

Shyness is a funny thing. Surprisingly debilitating yet largely unrecognised for the harm it can do. I liken it to being encased in a bubble, a membrane of transparent but strong rubber. In one's day-to-day life it doesn't register, but when you're in a social situation, say a party, and you want to interact with soemone, then it kicks in.

Imagine a bunch of people nearby, having an interesting conversation. You want to join them, you'd be welcome if you did, but taking that step and introducing yourself is when shyness hits. It's like you're reaching out to people, but you hit that membrane. At first it gives, but the more you reach out, the harder it pushes back, and you just...can't...quite...

So you don't go over. You don't introduce yourself, and you don't join in that interesting conversation. And you spend the party trying to look interested in the decor, and you get out of there as soon as is polite. And after a while you don't get invited to so many, because people think they're not your thing. Other people just think you;re so up yourself you can't lower yourself to speak to mere mortals. And the cycle begins.

I found that the skills I learned as a roleplayer helped me to take that step, to break through the membrane, and go say hello, damnit! It's still never easy, I don't suppose it ever will be, but it doesn't show, and very few people who know me would imagine how difficult it has always been for me.
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[Omote]

Roleplaying games, and the like have not affected my world view in the slightest. As above, I'm more of a creative thinker and can visualize dreams and senarios, etc well, but it hasn't changed anything in the real world of views.

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[Lurker]

I wouldn't say the RPGs have change my world view but they have helped to mold it. They have lead to a love of reading & thinking & also pointed me down the path of my favored books which does at least color my world view.

They have also lead to meeting people I'd have never known & these people are also more thinkers so ideas get passed around that if I was only a farm boy from NE Ok I'd never come into contact with. This also, even if I don't agree with all the thoughts & ideas, tent my view & also helps to see others view with out predijust.

It has also helped me in presenting ideas and thoughts. -What is the big deal going to the Maj with a training event when I have before held 5-6 people spell bound in a realm that only exists in my story & if I don't tell the story well they get bored & have wasted a precious Friday night-

Cat good edit. My dad & my brother are the kind of people that with in 5 min of entering a room everyone knows them and are their friends. I, on the other hand, am a wall flower so can at least understand a little about where you are coming from.
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[Treebore]

Catweazle wrote:
Naah, not really. It has helped me to articulate my creative impulse, for which the world of poetry should thank Mr Gygax effusively.

Even for a youngster, my poetry was bad.

EDIT:

Nope, that's a lie. I really should be straight with you if I'm bothering to answer. It has helped me in one very big way. I was painfully shy as a small child. RPGs helped me to overcome that and be more sociable.

I'm still very shy, and take a while to relax around people (for other reasons, which I won't go into here), but the skills I acquired then stand me in good stead to this day.

Shyness is a funny thing. Surprisingly debilitating yet largely unrecognised for the harm it can do. I liken it to being encased in a bubble, a membrane of transparent but strong rubber. In one's day-to-day life it doesn't register, but when you're in a social situation, say a party, and you want to interact with soemone, then it kicks in.

Imagine a bunch of people nearby, having an interesting conversation. You want to join them, you'd be welcome if you did, but taking that step and introducing yourself is when shyness hits. It's like you're reaching out to people, but you hit that membrane. At first it gives, but the more you reach out, the harder it pushes back, and you just...can't...quite...

So you don't go over. You don't introduce yourself, and you don't join in that interesting conversation. And you spend the party trying to look interested in the decor, and you get out of there as soon as is polite. And after a while you don't get invited to so many, because people think they're not your thing. Other people just think you;re so up yourself you can't lower yourself to speak to mere mortals. And the cycle begins.

I found that the skills I learned as a roleplayer helped me to take that step, to break through the membrane, and go say hello, damnit! It's still never easy, I don't suppose it ever will be, but it doesn't show, and very few people who know me would imagine how difficult it has always been for me.

I have a brother like that. Plus he is always convinced that people always think the worst about him. Even if they only met him.

Yeah, he has serious issues.

Glad to see your able to successfully fight yours, even though it isn't always a victory for you.
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[magehammer]

Increased my vocabulary by at least four grade levels.

Gave me a creative outlet for writing and creativity.

Gave me countless friends and memories.

Partially responsible for inspiring me to be an English teacher by showing me where my natural talents, skills, and interests lie.
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