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<blockquote data-quote="FalcWP" data-source="post: 3535232" data-attributes="member: 16858">Not really, since I didn't start playing until my last year of high school, though my mom certainly planted the seeds.&nbsp; She's always enjoyed fantasy books, so I got to grow up reading things like The Lord of the Rings.&nbsp; She's also always played board games, so the idea of sitting around the table with folks and rolling dice for a few hours isn't exactly alien to her, either.&nbsp; I'm convinced that if she'd ever just play D&amp;D, she'd enjoy it; however, we've never gotten a chance to give that a shot.&nbsp; She's had me explain the basic concepts to her, and she understands some of the basic ideas (basically in the context of, &quot;A ranger is sort of like Aragorn or Legolas, and a fighter is like Gimli.&nbsp; And you roll dice and add numbers to the roll to figure out if you hit things or not.&quot;).&nbsp; At some point, I do hope to run her through a game, just because she'd have fun.My dad, on the other hand, doesn't get D&amp;D at all, though he's never had a problem with me playing it.&nbsp; But he also wasn't a huge fan of the Lord of the Rings movies, nor board games (apparently, during college, he once got so sick of being backstabbed in a game of Risk with my mom and a couple friends, he threw the board across the room, and hasn't played since.)&nbsp; On the other hand, he's the one I get my love of sci-fi from, so he's not entirely devoid of geekiness. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="FalcWP, post: 3535232, member: 16858"] Not really, since I didn't start playing until my last year of high school, though my mom certainly planted the seeds. She's always enjoyed fantasy books, so I got to grow up reading things like The Lord of the Rings. She's also always played board games, so the idea of sitting around the table with folks and rolling dice for a few hours isn't exactly alien to her, either. I'm convinced that if she'd ever just play D&D, she'd enjoy it; however, we've never gotten a chance to give that a shot. She's had me explain the basic concepts to her, and she understands some of the basic ideas (basically in the context of, "A ranger is sort of like Aragorn or Legolas, and a fighter is like Gimli. And you roll dice and add numbers to the roll to figure out if you hit things or not."). At some point, I do hope to run her through a game, just because she'd have fun. My dad, on the other hand, doesn't get D&D at all, though he's never had a problem with me playing it. But he also wasn't a huge fan of the Lord of the Rings movies, nor board games (apparently, during college, he once got so sick of being backstabbed in a game of Risk with my mom and a couple friends, he threw the board across the room, and hasn't played since.) On the other hand, he's the one I get my love of sci-fi from, so he's not entirely devoid of geekiness. :) [/QUOTE]

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