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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM-Rocco" data-source="post: 3858495" data-attributes="member: 14451">Okay, my bad.  I got you mixed up with the other poster.  But my reply is still good if it is for a "14 year old girl wants to join my gaming group," or a "40 year old man want to join my gaming group," or a "65 year trans-sexual wants to join my gaming group," judge not less ye be judged and all that.Here is my reply from the 14 year old girl thread when I thought you two posters where the same:I think I have a problem with your posts. I don't think that you are giving all of the facts or you just don't like 14 year old girls and 40 year old men.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> Seriously though, what do you teach at age 19 that makes you such an expert on life that you can judge how a 40 year old man or a 14 year old girl will fit in your gaming life? Your other players are for the record, 16, 17 and 20, so a 14 year old girl, with permission from the parents, is not that bad of a fit and remembering back to my own male youth, probably more mature. I could see the odd joke arising once or twice but as a responsible DM a quick, "let's keep it clean," speech on your part to the other players would most likely be enough to stop that in its tracks.As to the 40 year old man, well, as Wiz Boot said, "wait until your 40". I'm not there yet, but soon. What you say might be true, he might be weird, I can only wonder what you will be like at 40 since you now at 19 have such a narrow opinion of others.Perhaps you should re-list your ad saying something like, "Gamers wanted. Must be clean cut college or college want a be, ages 16-21 (and only 21 so we can have someone to buy beer). No weirdos and must be male."I'm not flaming you, I just don't get it, truely. I could see a lot of problems from letting either in your group but I tend to focus more on what they can offer to the group rather than the potential problems that might arise. A 40 year old gamer, great, let's get him in and pick his brain. Unless he is new to the sport he must have great ideas and experiences. Bring him in for a game or two and tell him it is a probation peroid. If he turns out to be truely weird tell him that it is just not working out but don't put an ad out there asking for gamers and then getting mad that gamers respond.As for the girl, well, girls are usually rare in the field so I always encourage them in the game and they usually keep the game more on focus rather than, "I roll to see if I am drunk yet." Although, sometimes it doesn't matter and people will try to get drunk in D&D no matter what you do.    <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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