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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arwink" data-source="post: 2115936" data-attributes="member: 2292">I was introduced to DnD by the children of my parent's friends when I was about six, so it's been a part of my life for the last twenty-odd years.  While they've never really wanted to play and my dad still doesn't understand the concepts terribly well, my mother did a study of my gaming group as a research project for her Masters in Education when I was fourteen so she's got a fairly solid idea of what goes in a gaming session.  They've only occasionally shown dissapproval of my gaming, usually when it impacted on school work because I was spending to much time writing dungeons and not enough time doing homework.  Most of the time they were supportive, happy to host a gaggle of teenage boys every afternoon after school and at least half the weekend, and defended gaming when the parents of some of my friends expressed concern about what we were doing.  With all but two exceptions, the parents of my school friends eventually had a fairly positive view of gaming as a result.These days they still ask about how my games are going on occasion, express a stronger interest in what's going on with my game writing, and intentionally go out of their way to irritate me by asking whose winning if they ring in the middle of a session.</blockquote>