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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brazenwood" data-source="post: 4330980" data-attributes="member: 68046">12 year old sonMy Son is a total video game junkie, plays x-box for hours on end, and as a self-employed parent that needs a free babysitter, plus I'm a gamer, I support it, but growing up I let him play in our weekly role-playing games (aged 20-60), and he always loved it even if he couldn't stay focused the whole time and shunned the having to improv act part of RPGs.  Now he's 12 and, we just tried 4E and he absolutely loves it.  He's reading the PHB from cover to cover, making like two or three characters a day, he is totally hooked, and would much rather play 4E than his x-box by far, even if it's just 37 year old dad and him running all five characters through the Kobold Hall.  I mean he loves it so much that he wants to run through it again with new characters to see if they could barely survive the White Dragon at the end!  I told him I was going to create a character background design system, and he got so excited that he sat in the chair beside me all night typing it up on the computer till 8 AM the next morning, and when I was wiped out and couldn't see the screen anymore, he thought I was crazy for wanting to retire at last, and he got busy rolling up character histories and detailed backgrounds for all his characters, plus he made a new character!  So these kids who are hooked on video games I think would rather play Dnd if they are intriduced to it in an exciting way.</blockquote>

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