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<blockquote data-quote="Jeff Wilder" data-source="post: 1839420" data-attributes="member: 5122">When I was much younger -- 18, which is half my life ago -- I &quot;taught&quot; a D&amp;D class to kids between 9 and 12.&nbsp; It was part of a program called Horizons Unlimited, and I was -- and remain -- very impressed than in my home state -- Kentucky -- they had the courage to include &quot;Dungeons and Dragons&quot; in a curriculum with other subjects such as &quot;Creative Writing&quot; and &quot;Math Wizardry.&quot;Anyway, it blew me away how enthusiastic those kids were about the game, and how naturally and unselfconsciously they took to actual roleplaying.&nbsp; As I've gotten older, I've given it a lot of thought, and I realized gradually that it wasn't that amazing ... kids that age are still playing cops and robbers, or cowboys and Indians, and what is that but roleplaying?&nbsp; The only impact the addition of rules had on those kids was that they no longer spent half their time arguing over whether &quot;Bang, you're dead!&quot; was true or not.It was a great experience.&nbsp; If it weren't for the raised eyebrows and current climate of extreme pedophilia-phobia, to coin a term, I'd be quite willing to DM a group of kids that age on a weekly basis.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeff Wilder, post: 1839420, member: 5122"] When I was much younger -- 18, which is half my life ago -- I "taught" a D&D class to kids between 9 and 12. It was part of a program called Horizons Unlimited, and I was -- and remain -- very impressed than in my home state -- Kentucky -- they had the courage to include "Dungeons and Dragons" in a curriculum with other subjects such as "Creative Writing" and "Math Wizardry." Anyway, it blew me away how enthusiastic those kids were about the game, and how naturally and unselfconsciously they took to actual roleplaying. As I've gotten older, I've given it a lot of thought, and I realized gradually that it wasn't that amazing ... kids that age are still playing cops and robbers, or cowboys and Indians, and what is that but roleplaying? The only impact the addition of rules had on those kids was that they no longer spent half their time arguing over whether "Bang, you're dead!" was true or not. It was a great experience. If it weren't for the raised eyebrows and current climate of extreme pedophilia-phobia, to coin a term, I'd be quite willing to DM a group of kids that age on a weekly basis. [/QUOTE]

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