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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1258758" data-attributes="member: 151">We have two, 6 and 3.5.  Both of them are interested in 'the dice game' or just 'the game', but for different reasons.  My son loves to sit with any of my players and look at all the monsters in the Monster Manual.  Both of them love the miniatures and various Dwarven Forge and Hirst Arts materials we currently have. My son and daughter ask all sorts of questions whenever we get D&D minis (one reason it's great that they're plastic) or Heroclix.  Yesterday, we picked up two packs of Heroclix, and my kids wanted details on each character (Is she good?  Is he a bad guy?  I'm him, Daddy.  The Samurai is a good guy.)  Then my son lined up the good guys (Iceman, Gambit and Psylocke) against the bad guys (Mystique, Destiny, a Hand Ninja and a con artist) and had the Silver Samurai turn into a good guy as they battled across the kitchen table.  That's my boy. Honestly, though, if they decide they want to play, at some point, I might run a game for them...but that's in the future, and only when it doesn't interfere with school and other things.  D&D players certainly weren't ostracized at my High School....heck, most people had played it at least once, back in the early 80s.   As TW said, RPGs aren't the cause of someone not focusing on school or work, any more than drugs, alcohol, internet chat rooms, Everquest, video games, sports or any other activity is.  That's a symptom, not a cause.  The people I knew in school who played D&D to the exclusion of schoolwork had other, much more deep-seated issues than the game. D&D is a leisure time activity, and should be viewed as such.  I don't see it as a source of embarassment, and I didn't then, either.  If you act as if you're doing something to be embarrased about, though, people will react to it.  If you act as if gaming is something to keep a secret, then people are going to continue to believe the nonsense they hear about it from uninformed sources. The older I get, the more fondly I think of how my mother accepted my gaming, even if she didn't fully understand what it was.  She let us host the games at my house, reviewed it, saw that it was harmless (and, in fact, educational and healthy) and never discouraged it.  (Damn, I miss her).</blockquote>

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