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<blockquote data-quote="Dykstrav" data-source="post: 5065231" data-attributes="member: 40522"><p>Neither one of my parents approved of roleplaying games (especially D&D), and when I was a teenager, it caused considerable friction in my house.</p><p></p><p>I first started running the old FASA <em>Star Trek</em> game at my place on weekends. I had a campaign set in the late movie era on an Excelsior-class ship. He was cool with this at first, but as <em>Star Trek: the Next Generation</em> progressed (it was still on the air at the time), he gradually turned around and decided that <em>Star Trek</em> was designed to brainwash people into moral decay. So... When that game wound down, he informed me that he didn't want me playing a <em>Star Trek</em> RPG and he didn't want me watching the TV shows. The fact that he waited until that game was ending was probably the most reasonable thing he ever did in regards to gaming.</p><p></p><p>After that game wound down, our group drifted into AD&D, second edition. I was able to play that for about a year and a half without incident, although he did tell me that he didn't want our group playing at his place. I assumed that this was because he got tired of the <em>Star Trek</em> group every weekend, so I didn't really think much of it.</p><p></p><p>One Saturday, I was packing up for game in the AM when our minister came by at my father's behest. I got chewed out for playing RPGs and was told that I needed to burn all of my gaming books. I disobeyed, took them to a friend's house, and at least got the satisfaction of seeing my father get really upset that he purchased a gallon of gasoline for nothing when he couldn't find my gaming stuff. <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=":)" /></p><p></p><p>That was a sore point between us for years. My father blamed that incident for him never getting to become a deacon in his church. There were other issues too... But my gaming hobby was something we never reconciled. He died ashamed of me, and my gaming was one of the big things that he was ashamed of me for.</p><p></p><p>My mother is much cooler about gaming. She even thought it looked like fun, whenever she saw it. Her major concern with it was that she thought it was somehow making me homosexual, because I was sitting around a table with a bunch of guys on the weekend instead of chasing tail. "Normal, healthy boys your age only think about one thing," she would often say in a concerned voice...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dykstrav, post: 5065231, member: 40522"] Neither one of my parents approved of roleplaying games (especially D&D), and when I was a teenager, it caused considerable friction in my house. I first started running the old FASA [I]Star Trek[/I] game at my place on weekends. I had a campaign set in the late movie era on an Excelsior-class ship. He was cool with this at first, but as [I]Star Trek: the Next Generation[/I] progressed (it was still on the air at the time), he gradually turned around and decided that [I]Star Trek[/I] was designed to brainwash people into moral decay. So... When that game wound down, he informed me that he didn't want me playing a [I]Star Trek[/I] RPG and he didn't want me watching the TV shows. The fact that he waited until that game was ending was probably the most reasonable thing he ever did in regards to gaming. After that game wound down, our group drifted into AD&D, second edition. I was able to play that for about a year and a half without incident, although he did tell me that he didn't want our group playing at his place. I assumed that this was because he got tired of the [I]Star Trek[/I] group every weekend, so I didn't really think much of it. One Saturday, I was packing up for game in the AM when our minister came by at my father's behest. I got chewed out for playing RPGs and was told that I needed to burn all of my gaming books. I disobeyed, took them to a friend's house, and at least got the satisfaction of seeing my father get really upset that he purchased a gallon of gasoline for nothing when he couldn't find my gaming stuff. :) That was a sore point between us for years. My father blamed that incident for him never getting to become a deacon in his church. There were other issues too... But my gaming hobby was something we never reconciled. He died ashamed of me, and my gaming was one of the big things that he was ashamed of me for. My mother is much cooler about gaming. She even thought it looked like fun, whenever she saw it. Her major concern with it was that she thought it was somehow making me homosexual, because I was sitting around a table with a bunch of guys on the weekend instead of chasing tail. "Normal, healthy boys your age only think about one thing," she would often say in a concerned voice... [/QUOTE]
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