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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 948003" data-attributes="member: 2013">Ah, a fellow Ham Radio operator. <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=":)" />I have been responsible for bringing in lots and lots of folks... let's see...The first gaming group I got together back in 3rd-grade... 10 members in all...The two guys that joined us between 3rd and 6th grade... 12 total...My entire scout troop when I was in Jr. High... let's see, that was another 8 at least... 20 total...Three brothers... 23 total...My latest 3e campaign... with two of my brothers and a bunch of new gamers... nine more... 32 total...32 total.  At least.  (I've DM'd literally hundreds of players in my gaming lifetime, and nearly all of them were newbies when I started working with them - though I won't take credit for bringing them in unless it was ME, not one of my fellow gamers, who invited them - of those 100+ players, I can think of only a dozen or so that had played RPG games before I DM'd them).My wife gamed with me a couple of times, decided it wasn't for her, but doesn't begrudge me doing it - she knows it's my "creative outlet" and that it's an integral part of my life.  And my wife and I have "made" two potential gamers.  However, at two years old (son) and four months old (daughter), it's a little early to tell yet... though my two-year old son loves to play with my polyhedral dice (he knows they're not candy now) and I have to drag him kicking and screaming out of my FLGS any time I take him in with me to visit... <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" />  Chip off the old block... maybe by the time he's four I'll have him totally converted and he'll be DMing his own games. <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=":)" />--The Sigil</blockquote>

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