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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 5438931" data-attributes="member: 27051">This is my better half in her own words:"Well, I bought the red box when I was about 10 years old (1983-ish) and forced my poor parents to sit through a very badly run game. It was a complete disaster so I retired from DMing at that point (though continued to be interested in D&D and would get very excited by references to it in tv and films eg, ET).  My parents later decided it was evil and dangerous, by the way, which I always found pathetic and amusing in equal measure. Fast forward nearly 10 years and I'm in the pub and I get chatting to Mark - somehow the subject of D&D comes up and next thing I know I've agreed to come along to his next gaming session (a Ravenloft adventure, I think it was).  It was brilliant - I then played on and off for about the next ten years (my favourite character got to about 22nd level), made life-long friends through it, and, of course, I got to know and eventually settle down with Mark. Since having children, however, I have more or less stopped playing altogether. I'm just not as interested as I once was. Two of our kids play sometimes - I confess I am quite proud of the fact that our daughter could name Tiamat and identify her heads/breath weapons at age 4! I may return to it again later in life - retirement maybe? I nearly got right back in to it a couple of years ago when I agreed to play Tomb of Horrors... it was loads of fun and we seemed to be doing so well - I even bought a "I survived the Tomb of Horrors" bumper sticker for my car - but we all died in the end and it was all very traumatic. I'm still very upset about it! I think it will be years before I dive in again. I don't know what else to say. I guess I am quite nerdy, though I wouldn't describe myself that way. I think D&D is a healthy hobby, I don't understand wives/girlfriends who have an issue with it, or who think it's not an appropriate hobby once you pass a certain age. There are much worse things out there that their partners could be doing. And I don't understand gamers who have to seek 'permission' from their partners. I have no problem with Mark continuing to play or run games. He's the best DM I've ever seen <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> "Heh.  Cool.  That's my honey.  I am a very lucky man. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />.  Still feel bad about the Tomb of Horrors, though.  (If you want to see me abusing her and some other people, here are the session writeups: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/155815-tomb-horrors.html#post2734270" target="_blank">Part 1</a>, <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/155815-tomb-horrors-4.html#post2904491" target="_blank">Part 2</a>.)(She has just told me to add that she regularly looks for copies of ST1 Up The Garden Path for me in charity shops.  Doesn't get any better than that, really.)</blockquote>

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