Grace à atomiks

[velvetpage]

Perfect for anyone who's ever played a roleplaying game. :)

http://www.gamespy.com/articles/633/633817p1.html

Elizabeth, curled up in my arms colouring and waking up from her nap, asked me, "Why're you laughing, Mommy?" Apparently this is only for idiots who know how to read. :)

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[stress-kitten.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

I'm still a D&D virgin, despite being an ardent gamer, but that's pretty much good for most RPG's where you're dealing with roll-players, not role-players.

I sent the link to my fiancée who began playing D&D (in class) in grade 4. (Yeah, his teacher at the time left something to be desired...)He'll find that very amusing.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Yanno, I would love to introduce my kids to role-playing, if I thought I could get away with it. There's so much reading, visualizing, and characterization in it, it would be a wonderful addition to a reading lesson. Have you ever known a roleplayer who was not an excellent reader - in the sense of, wide vocabulary and able to draw complex associations in what they read?

I came across you on a teaching community, and you turn out to be an ardent gamer? Talk about serendipity. . .

[stress-kitten.livejournal.com]

I am SO planning on gaming with my children. It's just another way of playing make-believe... and you just have to pitch it to their level. Can't you imagine, after reading them The Hobbit, letting them pretend to be hobbits and roaming around Middle Earth, exploring Tolkien's universe?

Most gamers also tend to have pretty good math skills too.

Of course, from the sound of it, I think we tend to mostly associate with intelligent gamers who have managed to aquire a fair amount of social graces as well. I've certainly known some gamers that I would keep away from children (or anyone I cared about) with a chair, a whip and a chainsaw.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Lady, you're talking to someone who has attended Anthrocon. :) I know whereof you speak.

Piet, my husband, was the first of his friends to hook up with a real live girl. I think the guys handled the shock fairly well, actually. As a result of his example, all the others have now married and three of the four have children. I take minimal credit for socializing some of them. :)

Chair, whip and chainsaw. Kinky. ;)

I find my students mostly have trouble putting themselves into roles that are so different from their everyday lives. I try to get them to think in role, and what I get is what THEY would do. They don't know how to take on another character's motivations yet. Grade fives are still children, after all. There were a few, though, that I totally want to game with in a few years, if I can look them up at that point. I had a lot of smart kids in my class this past year, and I want to introduce a few of them to roleplaying. Unfortunately, they've now graduated and gone to middle school, so I won't see most of them again.

[rikoshi.livejournal.com]

*SPORFLE*

I don't know what kills me more: 'Pointy Hat' or 'Get more shiny!'

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Did you read the second page? It's even funnier. :)

[jadecat.livejournal.com]

Shiny!!

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Shiny is my daughter's face when she snuggles up to me and says "I wuv you, Mommy."

Shiny is also big piles of imaginary D&D gold and platinum, amassed during random trips through multitudinous dungeons. . .

[paka.livejournal.com]

Because the entire social fabric of a medieval society with complex Hermetic magic systems relies on going into holes in the ground, killing people, taking their stuff, and either using it or selling it to go on shopping sprees.

[shavastak.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine got it. It's a high-quality book for first-time D&D-players, really! It's a lot like their other books, complete with suggestions on which character classes to choose first and what the top ten most useful wizard spells are. While my gaming group disagrees a little on the ordering, and would add a few spells and remove a few, they all agreed that the ten listed spells were highly useful ones.