Neatorama » dungeon master http://www.neatorama.com The Neat Side of the Web Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:26:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 10 Business Lessons Learned from Dungeons & Dragons http://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/12/10-business-lessons-learned-from-dungeons-dragons/ http://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/12/10-business-lessons-learned-from-dungeons-dragons/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:19:46 +0000 John Farrier http://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/12/10-business-lessons-learned-from-dungeons-dragons/ Esther Schindler played D&D for years, and has discerned principles from those experiences that can be used in her working life:

5.  The best quests require a mixture of skills in the party. Find new friends and cultivate ancillary skills. That pesky little hobbit thief may eat you out of house and home, yet sometimes he comes in pretty handy. This is the point of all those tedious “diversity training” exercises from your HR department; perhaps the message would get across better if they talked about the apparently-weak wizard and the bard with those amazing negotiation skills.

Link via Geek Dad, who notes that July is Dungeon Master Appreciation Month

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(Atom Films Link)

A short film by Atom Films user The555 about a man who decides to bring along his dungeon master to mediate a blind date. Clearly, he botched an intelligence check. 2.5 minutes long.

Via Topless Robot

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