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I never played Dungeons and Dragons as a kid (born in the early 80s, so a bit too young) but I played a lot of Games Workshop games (Warhammer etc) and I played
by throwaway13qf85 13y ago
I never played Dungeons and Dragons as a kid (born in the early 80s, so a bit too young) but I played a lot of Games Workshop games (Warhammer etc) and I played D&D-based video games (Baldur's Gate etc) heavily.
I remember poring over rulebooks and probability tables for hours, and writing computer simulations (in Visual Basic or Excel) to try and find some edge in the game. I think my parents were pretty worried about me.
I now write stock market simulations and come up with trading strategies for a living, using essentially the same methods that I used in the mid 1990s to win at roleplaying games, so I guess it all worked out okay?
- willvarfar 13y ago> I now write stock market simulations and come up with trading strategies for a living, , so I guess it all worked out okay? OMG, parents should have intervened!
- throwaway234254 13y agoNow that made me laugh. Perhaps the intense occult D&D training can cause people to walk the dark path.
- Fomite 13y agoThis is basically my story too. It's fun watching my mother wrestle with the notion that the amount of gaming I did as a kid directly led to a doctorate, a publication in Lancet Infectious Diseases and an interview on NPR.
- gregd 13y ago> I now write stock market simulations and come up with trading strategies for a living... So playing all those chaotic evil characters really had an affect on you eh? :)
- throwaway13qf85 13y agoI like to think of it as Lawful Evil ;)