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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zephyrus" data-source="post: 1840112" data-attributes="member: 8728">This is one point that worries me the most. Younger players seem to have this attraction like moths to the flame with playing evil characters and it can be frustrating at times.  I've been mostly fortunate to play with players that dont go crazy wanting to be evil and usually chaotic neutral at worst. Recently I played in a couple of games with some younger kids (a friend was DMing, so I finally got to play but it was a gaming store that had alot of kids go their. many between 12 and 14).  Almost right off the bat we start having immaturity issues and characters barly restraining themselves from backstabbing each other with several bordering on being evil. the GM had set it up to be Non-Evil characters only because we dont like inter-party fighting and such. After 2 sessions I quite and I Think the game fell appart cause after the 3rd session my friend said he had threaten to stop DMing because of how immature they were being.Yeah I know their young but their are problems their already without playing D&D to add to them.  I'm not one of those people that harp on D&D as bad. But its kids like these that let things get out of hand and give fuel for the vocal anti-d&d groups.  I wasent gonna be a party to it which was why I quit. Hopefully without someone to DM for them they'll find some other way to ammuse themselves. Younger kids can be fun but its tricky I Think. they need to be smart enough to understand how to play and mature enough to not to use it as an excuse to be disrespectful and irresonsible. I Think gaming parents teaching gaming kids is alright though cause its an enviroment that will hopefully provide the nessisary checks and balences to make these gaming kids a joy to play with. On the other hand the youths I had to endure from what I hear, several were from homes where they had to 'hide' the fact they were playing from their parents, who would prolly have refused to let them play if they knew.  I dont think youths like these should play any RPG's (D&D or otherwise) as it only fuels their seemingly disrespect for others, expecially authority figures like their parents.At least with Kids with Gamer parents, as I mentioned before, the parents can help guide the kids into being more responsible in their play. If I have kids I'll prolly be mindful their introduction into gaming.  feeding them a little at a time perhaps to insure they can handle it. Besides also, kids that age have enough games where they can play make believe that they dont need table top RPG's to have fun and be creative. I hope I dont get alot of flak for all i've said, but bad young gamers can realy suck the fun out of playing.</blockquote>

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