Re: Does Dungeons and Dragons make technical writers?

Subject: Re: Does Dungeons and Dragons make technical writers?
From: Andrew Plato <intrepid_es -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 09:28:48 -0800 (PST)

"Darren Barefoot" wrote...

> It seems to me that all of that, among other things, prepared me for a
> career in technical writing from the young age of 11 or 12. Did anyone
> else play D&D and go on to technical writing? Am I making any sense at
> all here? DB.

Who let the nerds out? Woof woof. :-)

I never played D&D. I hate fantasy stuff. I preferred wargames, like D-Day
or Stalingrad from Avalon Hill . The ones with those little cardboard
pieces for units.

D&D might have made you a better writer, but wargames prepare you for
business. Got to think like a general and flank the competition.

Andrew Plato

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