Milo Windby's Collected Story Hour

[SpaceBaby Industries]

None taken in fact I think I've broke my old record....2 posts within 6 months. WOW!

Nothing like talking about the kids to bring out a proud parent, is there?

You know, I wonder if this might make an interesting(?) thread. Gamers like to talk about their games, and parents usually can't stop about their kids - who could resist a discussion about your kids and their playing D&D?

Hmm. Maybe the world isn't ready yet.

Well here is a new derailment for you. Milo and my daughter has her own D20 dice, mind you it is huge since she is only one and a half and we would prefer her not to chock on it. She can roll that huge dice just fine by herself. Every once in a while she even gets a twenty.

Excellent. Get them trained young right? I have a nine month old, maybe I should get the gaming exposure underway immediately. One of my son's dice is this enormous yellow 30 sided abomination (I mean really, what on earth uses a d30?). That would make a good, no choking first attempt.

 

[Nail]

Get them trained young right?

Heh.

My wife has threatened me with bodily dismemberment if I corupt my daughters in that way. ...So the oldest and I just call it "Playing Monsters and Bad Guys" when I get th' minatures, dice, and battlemat out. The youngest just uses the counters and tokens as coloring practice (that is: color on them) and the dice as gems to give to her toy cat.

 

[Brigit Deeperdown]

Train them young.

Train them young that's what I say. Nail just tell your wife honey it improves there imagination.

 

[SpaceBaby Industries]

young and the maternal unit

Train them young that's what I say. Nail just tell your wife honey it improves there imagination.

Good advice, I'll have to remember that one.

All of this talk of imagination reminds me of something amusing. My son got a toy castle for Christmas, and the baby is exactly the right scale to be a Giant when I stand her up. That she readily eats the horses or the Knights if she gets her hands on them only adds to the image.

I find it remarkable actually that not one, but two couples are involved in this campaign. I don't have any statistics, but husband and wife (or any other sort of male/female in a relationship combination I suppose) gaming teams seem rather uncommon. While I imagine it means nobody in the household looks down on this particular choice of leisure time, it does pose one problem I don't currently have: who looks after the little people on game day/night? At least my wife's disinterest in the whole gaming concept means the brood will be looked after without any challenging logistics.

 

[Nail]

Re: young and the maternal unit

At least my wife's disinterest in the whole gaming concept means the brood will be looked after without any challenging logistics.

Once again: I envy you.

In our household, the "younger units" are looked after by the DM, as the better half says: "You're gaming? Great. I'm off to see friends then. Tah-tah!"

 

[Mazi]

who looks after the little people on game day/night?

Steve and Blue

My son got a toy castle for Christmas, and the baby is exactly the right scale to be a Giant when I stand her up. That she readily eats the horses or the Knights if she gets her hands on them only adds to the image.

My 7-year old asked for a Dragon Castle set for his birthday so that he would have a set like the one we play with on game night. For the big final battle in the temple we ended up bringing out all of his little men to use for the bad guys.

 

[Nail]

Re: Train them young.

Train them young that's what I say. Nail just tell your wife honey it improves there imagination.

That's what I keep saying....

Milo and Frog are some lucky guys, that's for sure.

 

[Milo Windby]

Re: Re: Train them young.

Milo and Frog are some lucky guys, that's for sure.

You won't find me complaining, that's for sure!

On the gaming couple note, Spacebaby. It's not uncommon for us in the least. While we're waiting to play another installment in Frog's masterful campaign, I'll wax nostalgic on how it all got started...

Frog and I were invited to play by a mutual friend who had just picked up the 3E core books. I hosted the games at our apartment at first.

My wife was intrigued when she heard how much fun we were having one night. After a little pursuasion I convinced her to join in as a dwarven cleric. Thus Helga Deeperdown was born. Frog and I were playing dwarven fighter brothers at the time. We came across the lawful good cleric picking poisonous berries in the woods. "To poison BAD people!" Brigit's first foray into role playing is still a source of constant teasing today.

Mazi was convinced to join the party when Brigit told her how much fun it was. She broke the dwarven mold by creating an elven wizard. Our little gaming group was getting quite big now.

With two couples playing it wasn't too hard to convince our DM's wife to start playing either. She joined in as a halfling ranger. By now our little group was getting a little bloated. We were playing through the Forge of Fury at the time.

Not too long after the DM's wife joined, another player was thrown into the mix in the form of another mutual friend playing another ranger.

Now we had six PCs and a wealth of children running around. Things got a little out of hand around then, not to mention there were some hard feelings caused by the DM's gaming style. We just stopped playing.

A few months later Frog offered to DM a smaller game in his home involving myself, Brigit, and Mazi. His son joined in for the ride as well. The rest is detailed in these very pages.

Now Brigit and I are involved in three gaming groups. I've started DMing for Brigit, our ranger friend and his wife from the first game, and two other friends from work. Brigit and I play in another game with those same friends as well as two other couples we know from work. In our gaming circle we actually know six couples that play together, not including ourselves. So, to make a long story short (too late) it seems almost natural to have everyone play together.

 

[SpaceBaby Industries]

Page 3?

Goodness, where did the fabulous foursome disappear to? Come back, or where else can I combine comments about both my gaming habits and my progeny in the same discussion? That sort of venue is valuable indeed!

My ten month old baby managed to catch the Chicken Pox. Her older brother shows no signs however, which is odd considering we thought he was the carrier. Ten days to date of seeing that many spots covering every part of the little infant...that was hard as a father to see. I don't think I could have handled it with as much aplomb as my daughter did actually. I'm starting to think babies have high pain thresholds or something.

The only good news about being that small with something like the Chicken Pox is she had no idea how to scratch. Things are finally receeding, so she (and I) may actually be able to get a night's sleep soon.

I'll try to fit in some actual D&D items to maintain the balance in my next post.

 

[Milo Windby]

Not to worry SpaceBaby! We'll be back soon. The gang got together to play for the first time in many moons just last Saturday. Illness and weather kept us from playing for the past long while.

This marked our first session in which the dice were never rolled. Pure RP baby. My beautiful bride Brigit even got the chance to flex her newfound RP muscles as she took over an NPC and attempted to rally an army.

This session was taped instead of transcribed. I found that writing notes took away too much from my interaction in the important conversations. It's going to take a little longer to get it posted though. With the written notes I can do my writing anywhere. Whereas with the audio tape I have to listen to at home and write a bit at a time. At least I won't miss any good quotes this way!