101 signs that your kid wouldn't game if their life depended on it.


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19. They have more money than you cause they don't spend it on books.

20. When they talk to there freinds in public, the words "sword, fireball, drow, demon, ran through, castle, and dungeon" are never heard.


PS: My friend's daughter calls us all nerds cause we game. Pretty smart for a 10 year old
 

He 'grows out of it' at age 8.

He thinks reading books is for nerds.

You explain the rules and he says: "You don't play it on a computer? That's so 1980's".
 

24: For his 11th birthday, the thing he wants most is an attache briefcase.

25: He doesn't understand just why so many dice are needed.
 

26. He drinks Pepsi.

27. They care about the weather on weekends.

28. The LotR movies are too boring to sit through.

29. They think Enworld is a mobile phone calling plan.

30. They'd rather wear shoes than sneakers.

31. T-shirts are something they wear under their shirts.

32. They are comfortable speaking in public (about something other than gaming).

33. They get their news from CNN because it's "more comprehensive" than newspapers.

34. They think Wisconsin is where beer and cheese come from.... and nothing else.

35. They think a gamer is someone who plays in the NFL.
 

36- You take your kid into a games store and he buys the latest CCG

37- Your child, when questioned, does not know who H.P. Lovecraft is...and he/she is 21!!!

38- Instead of seeing names like Satre, Plato, Carey, Camus and Nietzsche in your childs book collection, all you can find are Inside Sport magazines.

39- Your child thinks that Dnd is a song by "those old guys...AC/DC...?"

40- When your child refuses to help you in offering the new kitten up as a sacrifice to Hextor...(The weak shall succumb...!)
 

41: They just dont seem to understand when you sell their little brother down the pub to some guy called Habib, to finance buying 3.5D&D hardcovers.
 

42) Daddy I just joind the anti-demonology group at church

43) You mean I play a made up person, running around a made up world, doing unrealistic things and if they happen to die they can be brought back to life? That's just stupid.

44) They read William F. Buckley and F. Scott Fitzgerald for fun and not as research for playing a period game.

45) They find your dice collection and immediatly begin attempting to figure out how many sides the d20 has, however since at 12 they can still not count to 20 they find the task very daunting.

46) The play NWN.
 

47) "DAddy, will you keep it down? I'm trying to practice my cheers!"

48) "My psych professor says Freud talks about swordplay..."

-- Nifft
 

gave your first edition phb sign by gynax to game store owner for a playboy.

Melted your lead minis for fishing weights.


deleted all you d&d games off the computer so he could play all his mp3s.


Tore up your dragon mag for lining paper for the bird cage

Borrows all your d&D books in summer. You discover he using them to help jack the plywood he uses as jumping ramp.

Uses your dice as sling shot bullets because he can see how bad he missed the lamp pole.
 

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