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Message: <blockquote data-quote="airwalkrr" data-source="post: 2944378" data-attributes="member: 12460">It really does depend on the kid. Me? I was playing roleplaying games (though not necessarily D&D) when I was 10. I finally got into D&D when I was 14 or 15, although if I had been introduced to it sooner, I probably would have played sooner. Last Christmas, I got my little sister (who just turned 11 in June) the D&D Basic Set. I don't live with my parents anymore so I haven't played with her but twice, but everyone I come to visit, she wants me to DM a game and if I have time I do. We don't follow the rules all that closely and it is usually only me, her, and another sibling of ours (I have four younger brothers and sisters). All my other siblings play D&D with varying levels of involvement.Now I would never sit down with my little sister and try to play with true D&D rules, because to be honest, her attention span isn't that great. But she loves the minis, she is obsessed with dragons, and just rolling dice and seeing minis fall over is great fun for her. If you are determined to let your younger brothers enjoy your hobby with you, I recommend buying them the Basic Set for Christmas/Birthday and see how mom reacts to that idea. There is nothing even remotely approaching a mature concept in that boxed set and its common enough these days you find it in Toys R Us on the board game isle. If you get your mom to just think of it as some kind of board game, maybe she won't have as much of a problem with it. I don't think the basic set is any harder to play than Risk or Axis & Allies, which I was playing when I was six (of course I might not be typical).</blockquote>

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