• Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Dungeons & Dragons

  • One Woman's Quest to Trade Self-Help for Elf-Help
  • By: Shelly Mazzanoble
  • Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
  • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (56 ratings)

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Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Dungeons & Dragons

By: Shelly Mazzanoble
Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
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With tongue-in-cheek humor, the creator of the award-winning Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress takes on the self-help section, proving that the benefits of the Dungeons & Dragons game goes far beyond simple entertainment. "Shelly Mazzanoble shows us 'how she rolls', by meeting her everyday encounters with self-effacing charisma and plucky fortitude," says Dan Milano, writer for the TV series Robot Chicken.

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A Different Take On Things

This was a good listen. The narration was well done, the story flowed well and was interesting, but I could do without most of the sidebars. I wouldn't say that I couldn't put this down, but I did blast through it in two or three days of listening, which is pretty fast for me to go through a seven and a half hour recording. Shelly offers an insight into a life I find difficult to imagine... who talks to their mom every day? But it was interesting to me and I think it does a good job of taking away some of the stigma that gets built up around tabletop role playing. She is someone who I can totally see at the gaming table, and at the same time a person who I would not expect to be a gamer. But such is life and gamers are found in the most unlikely places. I enjoyed this book, even though there were large parts I couldn't relate too.Shelly Mazzanoble does a great job of laying it all out on the table.

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Fun life story with scattering of D&D references

Most enjoyable was the lilting fun of the narrator's voice telling tales of her interesting life story, revolving around employment at Wizard's of the Coast and her Seattle relationships.

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