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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zinovia" data-source="post: 4352468" data-attributes="member: 57373">Good advice all around.  Playing in a house with kids isn't all hardship and watching your dice though.  There are advantages to be had as well!  My kids are older now, so most of these suggestions don't apply to toddlers and other kids likely to pop dice into their mouths.  1) Older kids like listening in on the sessions sometimes.  Make use of this to have them fetch beverages for you, or throw food wrappers in the trash.  More time at the table for all!2) Kids are small and nimble.  Have them pick up dice you dropped under the table.  3) Kids of gamers often have lots of fun toys such as castles, siege towers, dragons, knights on horseback, wizards, etc. (consider who bought the toys for them).  Use these for additional minis and props in your games.  Kids are a great excuse to buy cool toys for <s>yourself</s> them.  4) Kids are creative.  They can sometimes suggest crazy ideas that just might work to solve a problem your characters are having in-game.  Or maybe not so much - but you might have fun listening to their ideas.  5) Kids can play too!  When they are old enough and if your friends are tolerant of children have your kids join a game.  We're starting one that deliberately excludes the childless couple who doesn't want to put up with my younger son (age 10), but includes another friend who loves kids.  The family that plays together stays together.  <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" /></blockquote>

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