While doing research for a new project, I was surprised to see the Dungeons and Dragons Players Handbook and Monster Manual on Amazon’s Top 100 best seller list in 2020, 2019, and 2018. As a kid back in the early 80s, my favorite part of the game was building new characters. I loved to choose a race and class, then roll for things like strength, dexterity, charisma, and constitution.

Thinking back now, I believe Dungeons and Dragons played a role in pursing my degrees in Psychology. I am still building character sheets and planning out campaigns so to speak, now I just call it Talent Management or Project Management.

I hope that younger kids are the cause of putting them in the Top 100 instead of old nostalgic guys like me. Maybe I’ll venture back into the game some day.