WayneLigon
Adventurer
A good friend of mine just told me the best story.
She and her husband have played D&D for decades. They have two children, a boy and girl, who are now in their early and late teens respectively. Both game (RPG's, and Board Games), and like many systems. They play with the parents sometimes, sometimes with other kids. The daughter has her own small D&D group.
The other day the girl hears two boys in the hall at school arguing about how Damage Reduction in D&D works and neither of them have it completely right. She's been DMing since 3E came out, so she knows the rules backwards and foreward.
She turns to them and says "I don't think it works like that, it..."
Boy 1: "What do you know? You don't even know what we're talking about anyway!"
Boy 2: "Yeah."
Her: "Of course I do, idiot; Dungeons and Dragons, third ed; it doesn't work like that at all, it works like blah blah blah." Gives example, etc. "Now, when it was changed in the new revision..."
Boy 1: "..."
Boy 2: "..."
Her: "You know, it's not good to assume what someone does and does not know..."
Then she tells me about the daughter, her girlfriends, and the local spookhouse rides that are popping up in their area now. My friend says that with one exception, they're kind of lame but at least they try to be scary. She can hear them talking from in the kitchen..
Both girlfriends have expressed they're scared to do so and so, or of so and so. Third girlfriend was (apparently) actually a little traumatized by one of the haunted houses. They ask my friend's daughter what she's scared of.
Daughter: "Nothing."
Girldfriends: "No really, none of that would bother you?"
Daughter: "You don't know what kind of upbringing I've had..."
It so reminded me of the classic 'life skills and D&D' strip from What's New?
She and her husband have played D&D for decades. They have two children, a boy and girl, who are now in their early and late teens respectively. Both game (RPG's, and Board Games), and like many systems. They play with the parents sometimes, sometimes with other kids. The daughter has her own small D&D group.
The other day the girl hears two boys in the hall at school arguing about how Damage Reduction in D&D works and neither of them have it completely right. She's been DMing since 3E came out, so she knows the rules backwards and foreward.
She turns to them and says "I don't think it works like that, it..."
Boy 1: "What do you know? You don't even know what we're talking about anyway!"
Boy 2: "Yeah."
Her: "Of course I do, idiot; Dungeons and Dragons, third ed; it doesn't work like that at all, it works like blah blah blah." Gives example, etc. "Now, when it was changed in the new revision..."
Boy 1: "..."
Boy 2: "..."
Her: "You know, it's not good to assume what someone does and does not know..."
Then she tells me about the daughter, her girlfriends, and the local spookhouse rides that are popping up in their area now. My friend says that with one exception, they're kind of lame but at least they try to be scary. She can hear them talking from in the kitchen..
Both girlfriends have expressed they're scared to do so and so, or of so and so. Third girlfriend was (apparently) actually a little traumatized by one of the haunted houses. They ask my friend's daughter what she's scared of.
Daughter: "Nothing."
Girldfriends: "No really, none of that would bother you?"
Daughter: "You don't know what kind of upbringing I've had..."
It so reminded me of the classic 'life skills and D&D' strip from What's New?
