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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thormagni" data-source="post: 4046939" data-attributes="member: 13637">I have found that playing with my 10-year-old has been a lot of fun. He is a very imaginative guy and a voracious reader. Setting his imagination loose in an RPG has been a lot of fun and really helped keep my enthusiasm up. When the game is scary, he actually gets scared and really gets pumped up when it gets exciting.I figure that fishing dads take their kids fishing, hunting dads take their kids hunting and sports fan dads take their kids to sporting events. This is what I do in my spare time and I enjoy being able to share it with my son. I certainly don't agree that it is a game of youth, but it clearly appears to be a game of YOUR youth. I think it is a shame that you are choosing to leave RPGs behind, but just in the time I have known you this seems to be a line you have approached several times, then backed away from, then approached again. You obviously have fun when you play, but you equally obviously feel RPGs are beneath you. While I have certainly set aside some childish things over the years, there are some I have kept and still enjoy. RPGs happen to be one of those and in many ways I think I am a better RPG player now than I was as a kid. Mainly because I have a better grasp of what it would be like to be a different person because I have a much broader world view than I did as a kid. I do think it is amusing that the things my dad dismissively told me I would grow out of as I grew up, I have instead continued to embrace. And the things he felt for sure I would someday mature into, I still remain resolutely bored by. For example, he insisted on taking us fishing last fall. I would, frankly, rather just tool around in the boat and enjoy the water, while he insisted I actually fish. You would think at 40 that I would know whether I like fishing or not, eh?</blockquote>

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