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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alyx" data-source="post: 205135" data-attributes="member: 623">My first experience with the Totally Against person was two summers ago.  In my youthful ignorance (now, of course, I am all grown up and all-knowing; unconquerable, and indomitable) I let a younger friend borrow one of my 2nd edition books.  You can see where this is going; his parents, who have ancient ties with my own, turned out to be religious conservatives with a rudimentary understanding of BADD’s love of our beloved hobby.  That’s the flaming torches BADD, not the flaming dragons BADD of more local renown.It went downhill from there.  They ended up sitting down my parents for a 'talk', which went about as you think it would.  I was lucky enough to be born to a man and woman who have traveled the world and gained an open perspective on all things human, and after a short dialogue we reconciled, with my position as a Dungeons and Dragons player an acceptable one.I lived with the scars of that incident for a year, becoming a closet gamer, secluding myself from outside society when it comes to gaming.  Once again fate smiled on me, however, for I soon found another player who was not so clandestine.  More, he was willing to announce his pastime to any that asked what a ‘hit roll’ was, and openly laughed at his ‘geekiness’.  After a year under his tutelage, as a DM of his game, I too took up this perspective of our common hobby, and will not hide it.  Those who know are likely to also know that I took a semester's worth of creditless Team Sports for fun, out swim half the school’s Aquatics team, took Theater Club, and am willing to risk my grade point average in front of a few hundred people if only I can elicit a laugh or two.  I’m comfortable with who I am, and that has been a rare enough occurrence through my short life that I will not let another batter down that wall of self again.So there is a view from a traveling high school teen, living in a country where D&D is a hobby that has few who would uphold it, but not for a lack of courage.  No, the only problem here is finding the few people of gaming temperament; there is no need to hide in the closet, because the outside world is indifferent to the hobby in general.  Now if only I could get more players!</blockquote>

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