D&D General Do you play D&D (or other RPGs) with your family?

[Ancalagon]

a bit - but I currently am running a game my spouse is a player in

 

[billd91]

I met my wife at a gaming club while in college back in the late 1980s. We were playing a weekly Pathfinder game together until the pandemic hit and broke the group up. I am also running 5e D&D for my kids and their friends.
So, yeah, the whole family games in some way, shape, or form.

 

[BookTenTiger]

Just to be the bucket of cold water, but it doesn't have any more explanatory power than any other shared group hobby -- people meeting people doing activities they both like is the key, not that D&D has any special power in this regard.

Bah humbug! I challenge you to play with my group and not fall in love!

 

[Stormonu]

Been playing RPGs with my wife since ‘93, and my kids since they were old enough to start showing interest (around 2012). Currently playing with all of them in a Sunday game.

I’ve also played with my own parents a couple times as well as several of my cousins Back in the 80’s.

 

[jgsugden]

Just to be the bucket of cold water, but it doesn't have any more explanatory power than any other shared group hobby -- people meeting people doing activities they both like is the key, not that D&D has any special power in this regard.

I'll disagree to an extent, at least with regards to some RPG groups - when we role play, we expose more of ourselves. That tends to create stronger emotional ties than less intimate activities. If your game is more of a strategy game ... not to much. if your game is story and character driven, more so.

Putting aside that offshoot - yes, I've been playing RPGs with my (just turned) 6 year old. We started off with just storytelling games where there was no luck element, then moved to a variant on Dread (which uses a Jenga tower instead of dice), and will next play a few mechanical board games like Mice and Mystics, Marvel United, etc... in which I'll ask him to 'voice' his character a bit. Then, in about 6 months, we'll take another shot at simple D&D. I have been enticing him with all my figures and terrain for years now...

 

[Cadence]

In the 80s I got my few-years-younger sister to play Star Frontiers a bit.

My 12yo plays 5e in a game I run now for him and his friends. (Started him on B/X a few years ago). My other half has no interest in any games (like board games) that involve combat or violence any more personally than Battleship/Stratego or Clue.

 

[BookTenTiger]

I'll disagree to an extent, at least with regards to some RPG groups - when we role play, we expose more of ourselves. That tends to create stronger emotional ties than less intimate activities. If your game is more of a strategy game ... not to much. if your game is story and character driven, more so.

Putting aside that offshoot - yes, I've been playing RPGs with my (just turned) 6 year old. We started off with just storytelling games where there was no luck element, then moved to a variant on Dread (which uses a Jenga tower instead of dice), and will next play a few mechanical board games like Mice and Mystics, Marvel United, etc... in which I'll ask him to 'voice' his character a bit. Then, in about 6 months, we'll take another shot at simple D&D. I have been enticing him with all my figures and terrain for years now...

What was it like playing Dread with a six-year-old???

 

[Lyxen]

I met my now Ex- wife in a LARP, and we did a bit of TTRGP, but she was not really into it. I however have played a lot with my daughters, nephews and nieces, took them all LARPing (a lot of them for my daughters), and even recently I ran a game for my eldest daughter, her partner and a few friends in the US, to which my third daughter participated from Canada as well. So yes, lots of family gaming in addition to friends.

 

[Mort]

I DM'd for my son and his friends until my son felt he was ready to take over.

Have a, not that regular, game I DM for my wife and son and even included my niece while she was staying with us for the summer.

 

[J.Quondam]

Just to be the bucket of cold water, but it doesn't have any more explanatory power than any other shared group hobby -- people meeting people doing activities they both like is the key, not that D&D has any special power in this regard.

Sure it does! You're probably just not casting the mind bondage spell correctly.