The Liberation of Tenh (updated April 24)

[Zaruthustran]

You know, everyone keeps saying that, and yet how many of us wound up doing the same things our parents like to do for fun?

This is the fear of two of my gamer friends here in Seattle, soon to be parents. They're worried that their kid, Rowan, will not be a gamer.

So they plan on raising him very conservatively, bringing him to Republican rallies, encouraging him to subscribe to the Wallstreet Journal, and so on. Until, at age 18 when the kid is all rebellious and into cool music, counterculture, and so on they'll suddenly go "Ha!" and reveal their extensive gaming collection, hippie past, and SCA garb wardrobe.

They're disturbingly eager to spring this surprise.

-z

 

[Barastrondo]

At what point will playing D&D cease being something geeky and start being something relatively normal, like playing Risk or Monopoly?

My personal prediction is right about the time that there are no more hot sexy drow girls in bikinis with implied or overt domination fetishes in the art or text of any of the major companies' books.

So any day now.

This is the fear of two of my gamer friends here in Seattle, soon to be parents. They're worried that their kid, Rowan, will not be a gamer.

So they plan on raising him very conservatively, bringing him to Republican rallies, encouraging him to subscribe to the Wallstreet Journal, and so on. Until, at age 18 when the kid is all rebellious and into cool music, counterculture, and so on they'll suddenly go "Ha!" and reveal their extensive gaming collection, hippie past, and SCA garb wardrobe.

They're disturbingly eager to spring this surprise.

And it would probably have worked, too, except they named him "Rowan." For total "we expect you to turn out normal" camouflage, they should have went with "Kevin" or "Chris."

 

[KidCthulhu]

And it would probably have worked, too, except they named him "Rowan." For total "we expect you to turn out normal" camouflage, they should have went with "Kevin" or "Chris."

Yeah. Everyone knows only freaks have those names.

 

[(contact)]

(cries)

 

[coyote6]

Congratulations.

As for "Chris" and "Kevin" -- I know some perfectly normal Chris's and- well, wait, not perfectly normal. At least kind of relatively normal, if you look at it from the . . .

On second thought, nevermind.

At least it wasn't "Bob", eh?

 

[Plane Sailing]

I'm not sure your wife agrees wtih that . . .

Well, it's more along the lines of it will take me about 90 minutes to get back from work and then a 20 minute drive to hospital, so we're both kinda hoping that about 2 hours is a sorta ideal time period

 

[Joshua Randall]

Hey, in that picture of Emily, you can distinctly make out a crescent moon emblem on her head covering. And as everyone knows, crescent moons are symbols of magic, and magic is part of D&D.

You b-stards! Corrupting her while she's too young to fight back! *shakes his fist impotently*

 

[Barastrondo]

As for "Chris" and "Kevin" -- I know some perfectly normal Chris's and- well, wait, not perfectly normal. At least kind of relatively normal, if you look at it from the . . .

See how it works? And if you name your kid Galadriel Fairwind Amidala, she winds up a suit-wearing, buttoned-down Kenny G fan who hangs out in fern bars and answers to "Cathy." I have no proof yet, but I'm giving it a generation...

And to nudge this discussion back around to something vaguely Liberators-related (though not without offering my own congratulations and best wishes to the proud real-life parents first), I betcha if Heydricus and Prisantha ever have kids, it'll be more of the same.

"Hey there, son, wanna go outside and knock around the ol' quintain? Maybe get some crossbow practice in? I got you a new lance!"

"Geez, dad. I told you, I have to get the thread count on this burlap just right or I'm never going to get apprenticed to the Dyers and Weavers Guild!"

Or if Jespo and Regda have kids...

...

...You know, I'm just going to stop there.

 

[Liolel]

Finally decided to read this story hour and I have to say its wonderful. Your done a masterwork job contact. I'll keep looking for updates on this storyhour as I do on a few others.

 

[dpdx]

Or if Jespo and Regda have kids...
...You know, I'm just going to stop there.

Dude.

Jespo and Regda would have heroic children, cause that's how it works. Nothing special alone, they combine to glorify the gene pool with offspring. Jesda apprentices for, and soon surpasses the Enchantress of Verbobonc, and Regpo the Mighty, Herald of Tritherion, brings law, justice and order to, er, the Bandit Kingdoms. Because they worked hard for it. Or something.

But that would take time. What we need is for Fräs to get going on some celestial baby kitties.