Dungeons & Dragons & Development: How Playing Games Makes...
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Claims that playing TTRPGs measurably trains six meta‑skills — systems mastery, communication, empathy, collaboration, resource management, lateral thinking — and maps them to real work scenarios like incident response, delegation, and troubleshooting. Examples include a 2280‑peasant “railgun” exploit, trap solving (levering pins vs. summoning a beaver), an unkillable “jelly skelly” workaround, running a Kickstarter with 21 artists, and hosting a 60‑minute Macchiato Monsters session; emphasis is on concrete lessons not abstractions.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Start
- 2:57Systems Mastery
- 3:31Player's Handbook
- 9:46Intent and Approach
- 10:57Interacting with Npcs
- 14:20Fixing a Bug
- 15:05Empathy
- 19:34What Does Empathy Feed into
- 20:15Surviving the Dungeon
- 24:12Managing Your Individual Goals
- 25:39Resource Management
- 25:54Spells per Day
- 31:30The Solver Die Problem
- 35:57Troubleshooting
- 36:07What Went Wrong
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