Fatherly Gaming Tales

[Mark]

Okay, everyone! Time to tell your tales of gaming with your kids or with your father or with someone else who was with their kids or father, as the case may be. I want to read some good ones and will likely be awarding some free prizes to those with the best stories! Feel free to make them up if you must, but be sure to label it at the end as fan fic.

 

[Mark]

Here's some pics from when my friend Jim brought his kids out to the last Games Plus miniatures gameday -

Picasa Web Albums - CreativeMountain - Games Plus (i...

 

[Festivus]

I played several rounds of "Bang!" with Dad last night. He kept trying to cheat or was forgetting the rule that you can't have more cards than you have bullets.

http://www.davincigames.com/page_eng.cfm?sez=01&gioco=bang!

 

[Mark]

I played several rounds of "Bang!" with Dad last night. He kept trying to cheat or was forgetting the rule that you can't have more cards than you have bullets.

daVinci Games web site

That looks like a fun game. (Fixed link. For some reason the boards don't play nice with urls with "!" at the end.)

 

[Storminator]

Waaaay back in the day, my brother and I roped my dad into playing Keep on the Borderlands with us. We made him his character, a gnome illusionist, and started playing. Naturally we start in a tavern. We meet the mysterious stranger, get the job to go kill some goblins (all the loot you recover is yours!) and settle our bill:

Dad: "A beer is a copper piece?! I have 42 gold! Do you know how long we can drink for that much money?!"

All adventure long dad's complaining "there's no pit traps in the bar! Let's go back!" "No goblins ambush you in a bar!" "Look 19 gp! Beer for a month! Let's go back!"

PS

 

[Festivus]

That looks like a fun game. (Fixed link. For some reason the boards don't play nice with urls with "!" at the end.)

The best part is when you get to "Bang!" you wife. The expression on her face the first time was priceless.

 

[Mark]

The best part is when you get to "Bang!" you wife. The expression on her face the first time was priceless.

To paraphrase your screenname, "It's a Father's Day Miracle!"

 

[Eridanis]

Not strictly gaming, but gaming-related:

When Kate was about a year and a half old, one of her first words (after "daddy, mommy, ball and dog") was "die", for all the dice Daddy played with. One day, I took her with me on a visit to Games Plus, and, recognizing where we were, she ran into the store screaming "die! die! die!" as she ran to the dice case. I'll always treasure the look of everyone in the store looking at this sweet little blonde-haired girl with her bloodcurdling gaming-store war cry.

 

[Mark]

Not strictly gaming, but gaming-related:

When Kate was about a year and a half old, one of her first words (after "daddy, mommy, ball and dog") was "die", for all the dice Daddy played with. One day, I took her with me on a visit to Games Plus, and, recognizing where we were, she ran into the store screaming "die! die! die!" as she ran to the dice case. I'll always treasure the look of everyone in the store looking at this sweet little blonde-haired girl with her bloodcurdling gaming-store war cry.

Oh, that's gaming related and hilarious!

 

[MadMaligor]

Speaking of mimicing...

During a recent KotS run through I was enjoying the encounter with the Gelatinous Cube. So much so that I made little "Quook, Quook" sounds when the Cube slammed a PC, or "Thruuup" sound when it envelped someone.

DM (me): "The Cube, catches Raven (female rogue played by my best friends wife) off guard and slams into her for 13 points of damage.

Dragonborn Paladin (9 year old Christina): "Quook, Quook!"

Hilarity ensued.