Top Ten Reasons to Play D&D

10. Sometimes being an Elf with a magic sword who can bash things that make you mad is soothing.

9. It's a great way to find other geeky friends.

8. All that reading has to make you smart... right?

7. If you plan to set a game in an ancient Rome-like city you'll want to read up on ancient Rome first! So you learn while you play! It's like those brownies with vegetables inside of them, except D&D doesn't taste strange.

6. Imagination is something a lot of us lose after childhood and it's something a true D&D geek never leaves behind. Actually, I don't think anyone should give up imagination in any part of their lives. What do we become once our lives are just the day to day? No more invention, games, or (in my opinion) fun.

5. What is a better way to learn group unity than by helping your comrades delve into deep dungeons and carry loot from forgotten ages back from the depths? Answer: Nothing. Well unless you're my group, or you're doing a trust fall (dang those things are scary).

4. D&D isn't all combat - some of it can be like a good ol' puzzle-solving game with traps and tricks along the way.

3. Math can be pretty awesome... when you use it in D&D. That's right - there is math in D&D. Just because it's not called "D&D: Adventures in Math" doesn't mean you're home free. It involves lots of geometry, probability and statistics, and number crunching, which may include simple math all the way to algebra. The beauty of it is you don't even know you're doing math (most of the time)! There's also storytelling (language arts), reading and history (see number 7).

2. "Escapism" is a fun term. There's even a country song about it. A lot of people find escape in everyday things: watching a movie, playing a video game, or even just walking about your back yard with a stick shouting strange mangled Latin and pretending you're a boy wizard with a scar on your forehead (who will not be named). Escapism means to escape from your life, if only for a brief time. It's therapeutic.

1.It's fun! (Do I need to expand on this one?)