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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 456331" data-attributes="member: 151">It's a reasonable attitude to take, even if I don't tend to agree entirely with it.  As a father of two, I already know my children are both interested in 'the dice game', as my daughter calls it.  When they're old enough to play such a game, it will more likely be 'Once Upon a Time...' first, then perhaps a very light, mostly non-violent variant therein.  I let my daughter watch 'The Princess Bride', and I'll show her 'The Hobbit' soon.  Some sections need to be sped past, but you get the idea. D&D by it's very nature requires a certain degree of maturity to play, and the content has always been, at a visceral level: kill the monsters, take their loot.  Sure, there's much more to it than that, and yes, that's hardly the only way to play...but boiled down to a one sentence summary, that's the general idea.  Any game based around the voilent dispatch of other beings is certainly not a game for the under-10 crowd, strictly speaking.  But children play pretend, and my son likes to run around with a sword and shield, pretending to fight a dragon ala Shrek.  Kept at the right level, such content is relatively benign.But the same kind of insulation that you need to perform for any activity exists for D&D.  When watching football, I need to either mute certain commercials, or make sure my children understand the reality of a situation isn't reflected therein.  Certain TV shows simply can't be watched while the children are about.  If you run a D&D game with a mixed group of minors and adults, you'd best be sure that the minors parents (if that's not you) are 100% on the same page about the game.  But make no mistake: as a 13-year old, I was revelling in the violent slaughter of beasties, and I didn't need Mr. Gygax's help for that.  Ask any number of ants who suffered under magnifying glasses or plastic army men who suffered numerous flaming deaths. <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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