Now that's a geek

Brian Caplan muses on nerd identity and offers as his claim to the acme of nerdness, his response to the question: "What is the geekiest thing about you".

"I am the Dungeon Master for an all-economists' Dungeons and Dragons game."

Comments

[Peter Nolan]

That's nothing - I once got stuck in another D&D type game with four other students, all mathematicians. Modelling five seconds of combat took over six hours of arguing over angles and distances. Jeez.

[Emily]

It's a close call, Peter. I think you both deserve a prize of some kind.

[Peter Nolan]

Well, it wasn't my idea. If I was in the economists' game there would probably be an argument over the monetary system. I played the Lord of the Rings game, which had money based on four metals, but it never seemed to me that this was geared to allow the agricultural society of Middle Earth to reach the point of self-sustaining economic growth.