101 signs your kid is going to be a gamer

[Timothy]

16: It's first word isn't mommy but DM

17: It's first sentence isn't Mommy, PLEASE, (you guessed it) DM PLEASE

18: Your child can count to 20 within a couple of moths but doesn't grasp the purpose of every number after that until his fighter turns level three and gets more hitpoints.

19: When riding on his fathers back the kid thgrows a D20 and happily says het got his check.

20: He knows what Versimilitude means before the age of 4.

21: He insists his playdates can come by between 8 PM and midnight.

 

[ptrpete]

22. After playing with a school friends' cat, he asks "Can we get a familiar too?"

23. She describes a fantasy or sci-fi film as "realistic".

 

[Drawmack]

24) The six year old begs for a set of polyhedrals for months, and she knows what she's asking for.

25) Everytime she learns a new word she asks if she can read good enough to play DnD

26) Has explained the concept of role-playing to other children at school.

27) When other kids say they are playing pretend she says - no you're not your larping.

(all true)

 

[Graf_Ulrich]

24. Wearing a fez & silk pajamas.

25. Listening to Crass.

26. Childhood sweetheart is a goth.

 

[Sixchan]

31) The other kids play Cops & Robbers, but your kid insists they play Orcs & Adventurers.

 

[Eridanis]

32. At 18 months, the first toy she gets off of Daddy's bookshelf is the giant d20.

33. The second thing she grabs is the Beanie Baby Cthulhu.

(both true)

 

[megamania]

34. Plays with minitures describing how the "heroes" will defeat the dragon.

35. 4 year old learns to count to 5 and asks if he is now allowed to play "gaming". (true story- )

36. Instead of referring to them as dice, the kids refer to dice as d4,d6,d8 etc.... (true story)

37. 4 year old corrects cashiers, freinds and relatives whom point out dragons on a book cover. "No- THA'S a geen dagon, a crimzim dagon..."

38. 4 year old goes through my books before I do after buying them and points out the best monsters and "dagons".

 

[kengar]

39. Doesn't want to color, but would rather paint minis instead.

40. Has me & my wife for parents

 

[megamania]

I forgot the best one-

39. Parent / Teacher IEP meeting Teachers talk about his use of imagination and story telling involving heroes, monsters and dragons
(true story...the looks on the teacher's faces when I told them I play the dreaded evil satanic game of Dungeons & Dragons and allow him to watch or roll dice!!!!)

 

[mythusmage]

42. Junior gets an A for his essay on why lady dwarfs have beards.

43. Your teenager knows more about medieval economics than his history teacher does.

44. Ditto for medieval demographics.

45. The pre-teen can name 14 different types of polearm, and makes mock-ups in woodshop.

46. The five year old learned to color using Tome of Horrors