When I started up my first D&D game in high school, a friend of mine called to ask if it was that game where you comitted suicide if you died in-game.

He took my startled laughter as a sign of relief.  Apparently, when he told his relatives he was going to start playing D&D, they filled his head with all manner of idiocy, including the above-mentioned penalty for failure.

We've gamed together for over a decade now.

Quote from: Arsenic CanaryApparently, when he told his relatives he was going to start playing D&D, they filled his head with all manner of idiocy, including the above-mentioned penalty for failure.

Really? You're not playing old school if you don't commit suicide when your character dies...wussies...

Quote from: jgantsI remember a fight in my high school between a white kid and a Native American kid.  The (obviously dumb) white kid called the other kid a "taco bender", obviously mixing up his racial epitaphs.  However, it still provoked a fight.

Once in London, someone called me a Paki Bastard. Needless to say I was pretty offended because 1) I'm Indian of Sri Lankan origin 2) Mum and Dad believed in protection while engaging in premarital relations. (Don't you just hate it when they get their racial epithets mixed up....shows a lack of conviction, if you ask me)

Regards,
David R

Quote from: ancientgamer1.  Never play D&D with Satan.

Especially if he is the GM!  ("You really do want those Gloves of Power, don't you?  Well I'm sure we can come to some kind of arrangement...")

Quote from: David ROnce in London, someone called me a Paki Bastard. Needless to say I was pretty offended because 1) I'm Indian of Sri Lankan origin 2) Mum and Dad believed in protection while engaging in premarital relations. (Don't you just hate it when they get their racial epithets mixed up....shows a lack of conviction, if you ask me)

Regards,
David R

I am fully of the opinion that if you really want to use insults to hurt people, you really MUST get to know them first.  The better you know them, the more cutting your insults will be.

Insulting random strangers is not unlike sticking your dick into random holes in bathroom stalls. Sure, every once in a while you'll get an anonymous blowjob, but far more often someone will hit it with something hard or you'll encounter live electrical wires or...

Quote from: SkyrockHowever, if it is more a question of prestige or one of actual faith could well be up to debate.

See earlier comments about the Church of England (belief in God optional) for the British version of the same.

Quote from: TrevelyanSee earlier comments about the Church of England (belief in God optional) for the British version of the same.

The Church of England is great. We need more religions based on homemade jam, keeping the church clean and the cricket pitches well watered and a few less relgions full of all this God nonsense

My dad still regrets being such a dick about discouraging me from gaming. Although he never could stop me, he was always disparaging about it. A few years ago he asked me if I still gamed, and I was happily surprised when he replied "Good, I never should have discouraged you from gaming." I was pretty flabbergasted, and surprised.

Quote from: Serious PaulMy dad still regrets being such a dick about discouraging me from gaming. Although he never could stop me, he was always disparaging about it. A few years ago he asked me if I still gamed, and I was happily surprised when he replied "Good, I never should have discouraged you from gaming." I was pretty flabbergasted, and surprised.

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That's...really nice, Paul.

!i!

Yeah I was pretty surprised. My dad is a Budweiser drinking, car guy who spent nearly half his life in the military. He never seemed to have much use for my artistic endeavors-I paint, sketch, write (Admittedly poorly), act (Mostly like an ass), and even did a few years of Debate/Forensics. While he never directly stopped me or prohibited me from doing this stuff, it wasn't until recently he realized that money could be made doing this "Stuff"-as he calls it.

Shamefully I make no money being creative, instead I pretend to be Johhny Law for the State! (I do okay apparently, because I still have the jorb.)

My parents weren't very conservative and my involvement with roleplaying games meant that I would socialize (which I wouldn't do from 12-14 until I was introduced to RPGs). They welcomed it.

However, in my junior and senior years of high school, I was sent to a christian boarding school (my family is not even religious, but it was to keep me away from becoming a troubled youth, apparently) and there RPGs were regarded as highly dangerous. In fact, once faculty realized we would hold rpg games, they banned all dice on campus. You heard it... no dice. So we would use cards instead of rolling dice when playing dice-based systems. Also, it allowed me to properly introduce Amber Diceless to all the rpgers at the school.

I still laugh about it from time to time. There was an interesting perspective on RPGs in France (where I grew up) at the time (90's) because of a couple of suicides and even a murder somehow linking disturbed kids and roleplaying games.

Lol. "...dice are therefore banned until further notice." There were maybe a total of ten people out of 600 who enjoyed RPGs at this school. They made such a big deal out of it. I miss clandestine roleplaying...

Quote from: Serious PaulMy dad still regrets being such a dick about discouraging me from gaming. Although he never could stop me, he was always disparaging about it. A few years ago he asked me if I still gamed, and I was happily surprised when he replied "Good, I never should have discouraged you from gaming." I was pretty flabbergasted, and surprised.

Good on your Dad for figuring stuff out and taking the initiative to talk to you about it.

Being an older father I consider it an upside that I've had time to figure some things about life out before it's into the breech and making decisions. Because they are hell-of-tough choices to make. IME when we're younger we tend to just fall back on what our parents did, and bad cycles can perpetuate.

P.S. Of course the downside is I'm going to be at least the latter half of my 50's before I get the last one out of the house. :what:

Quote from: blakkieP.S. Of course the downside is I'm going to be at least the latter half of my 50's before I get the last one out of the house. :what:

I feel your pain; I'll be 55 when my oldest turns 20.

Quote from: Serious PaulMy dad still regrets being such a dick about discouraging me from gaming. Although he never could stop me, he was always disparaging about it. A few years ago he asked me if I still gamed, and I was happily surprised when he replied "Good, I never should have discouraged you from gaming." I was pretty flabbergasted, and surprised.

This kind of stories makes me sad, but yours put a smile on my face.