The Benefits of Role Playing

Role Playing has many benefits. Roleplaying helps individual expand their imagination and their creativeness. Not only does it bring friends together, help reading skills, but it also gives great ideas for those who wish to do any book writing. Roleplaying has been around long before computers were invented and it will be around for many years to come. Some stores are specifically only sell role-playing material. Even though I haven’t played since I started back up school, role playing has been part of my life for 10 years now, and I don’t plan to quit for good ever (unless I have to players, then I have no choice) Roleplaying has helped me learn a lot about fantasy worlds that I hope one day to use toward my book writing (which is going very slow right now) In fact some of my best ideas for my book have come from my role playing games with my friends. Also some role-playing books actually describe old practices that come form religion. I have done a lot of research trying to discover what is fact and fiction in some games, and through doing so; I have expanded my knowledge and my intelligence in regards to religion.
In my games, I try to incorporate old religious stories and characters into my games. (Cain, Lilith, Old Native American myths, Brigitte) They all cross-reference and they all have ties to the main characters. After all the main characters are Demi-Gods themselves.

Of course the main benefit is social interaction. Now granted most role-players have no social skills what-so-ever, and those that do, usually find other outlets apart from role-playing to take up their time, however getting out of the house and together with your friend to do something you all enjoy is good for a lot of geeks. Geeks have a hard enough time getting out of the house, and even though role-playing isn’t the best outlet for social interaction, it’s still much better in my opinion than sitting at the house.
So Role Playing not only has many benefits, but it’s here to stay for a long while.