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Message: <blockquote data-quote="boxstop7" data-source="post: 2415899" data-attributes="member: 8804">Greetings, all...It's been a long while since I posted here.  Who would've imagined that graduating college and entering the real world would've sucked up so much of my free time?????   <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" />   Anyway, I've been out of gaming for a while, and lately I've really been itching to get back in.  And, I've got a great way to do it:  my fiance's kids.  Unfortunately, my fiance is dead set against this.  Her kids are great:  three girls, all with incredible imaginations, enraptured with the likes of magic and fairy tales and Harry Potter and Yu-gi-oh and LOTR...I could go on and on.  They are PRIME candidates for some homespun, low-level, introductory D&D.  And, with mom and myself working, they've been growing increasingly bored this summer.  What better way to pass a few hours in the evenings than to bring D&D into the fold?  But my fiance says "no way, buster!"  I think they would love it, but she has the stereotypical view of role-playing, and thinks the whole notion of playing a game in your head is utterly absurd...to the point that I've even stopped talking about role-playing around her so as to avoid the snickers and jibes and incredulous looks.  She's never tried it, will never try it, is completely uninterested in trying it, and has rigidly formed opinions about role-players and the games they play (fortunately none of those preconceptions involve a Jack Chick-esque take on the topic).  So here's my question to all of you:  Does anyone have any advice or wisdom or personal experience with a situation such as mine that they would like to share with me?  I'm stuck...I really feel that I'm sitting on a role-playing goldmine here, and the situation requires some tact and delicacy for sure.  I love my fiance dearly, and she is an amazing woman...I certainly don't want to step on her toes.  I just think she's being a little narrow-minded.  Any suggestions?- JasonPost:  It's good to be back...this community is still the BEST out there, thanks to all of the people in charge and all of the people who contribute... <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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