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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rothe" data-source="post: 2943766" data-attributes="member: 39813">Being a father of 3, I'd ask your mom why she doesn't think they are old enough in a non-confrontational way.  She may be concerned that the themes are a little too mature for them (if she even knows what they are), she may be concerned with the friends it may expose them too.  As a parent what would sell me: it is interactive entertainment not passive entertainment like TV.  It is a social activity.  It requires the use of reading and math (or as DM you can make it so for your younger brothers).  You can also add an educational component based on your setting, that is, you may inspire your brothers to read history by setting things in the middle ages (I know, done before, but not for them).  Finally on themes, if you are playing CN thieves that kill at will, a parent is probably going to have as much trouble with that as GTA.  Instead, if your brothers are interested in heroic character's that rid the world of evil and do the right thing in the campaign even when it means less character power or loot, then as a parent that is good.  (As a personal note, my momther became one of those D&D=spawn of the devil types until she saw that we were playing heroic do-gooders and found out ole' JRR was a devout christian.  I started at 11, but the earliest I could have started was 8.edit clarification in that D&D wasn't availble until I was 8 <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=":)" />).My final advice is don't whine about it (not that you do) but whining often triggers my innate parent response that I can't give into whining since next time they will just whine for it.  Not that whining doesn't work sometimes. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Good luck, you sound pretty decent in that most 14 year olds wouldn't give the time of day to their little 8 year old brothers. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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