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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 1259925" data-attributes="member: 1656">My parents' group played once a week when I was growing up, on a Friday or Saturday evening... usually 6 or 7pm through 'til midnight or 2am.Mum and Dad would bring my sister and I along - it was like a bunch of aunts and uncles <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=":)" />By the time my mother ran me through my first solo adventure at 6 (a modified Palace of the Silver Princess), I had the 1E PHB and most of the DMG pretty much memorised (to the spell-casting-time-in-segments level)... although I doubt I knew the difference between a Cheap Trollop and a Slovenly Trull.Incredibly, the group let me play with them.  I look back on that and am simply awed by the tolerance that must have taken - a group of 25-30 year olds allowing a 6 year old to play.  And I played with that group for four years... until we moved to a new city, and my parents pretty much took a break from gaming until 3E.I still played some with a couple of school friends, but a group of 3 kids isn't quite the same when you're used to a group of nine or ten adults <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=":)" />-Hyp.</blockquote>

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