I had this wonderful prose about how the religion discussion has devolved from an interesting intellectual excercise to the typical drek seen on most message boards. It's a shame we missed the easy answers like "If someone chose to witness in the middle of one of my games they wouldn't be invited back" or "If someone brings a lawyer to the game I say we play Vampire instead". It's going nowhere and I'd rather see something go somewhere so here goes.... In somewhat the same vein how do/have those of you with kids introduced them to RPG's? For those without kids guess/surmise/whatever. Obviously there are things that make us uncomfortable. If someone RP'd a rape scene in graphic detail I'd be a bit miffed; if someone else was tittilated by the scene I'd be disgusted and if the game continued in the same vein I'd leave. Obvious right, but how do we turn that kind of morality on our children - do we invoke violence to we tone down descriptions. How do we keep our kids from turning into hack-n-slash style players, do we find that we tone down our games? Even further think about how you play - would you play the same way if your 7 year old was watching? A number of folks have answered before that they keep their kids away from RP's until they get to a certain age - I for one would love to include my kids in a hobby that I love. My 7 year old paints miniatures and plays chess and video games with me and I even cook with her (former chef hiding in here somewhere). Imagine the shock on Grandma's face when then 5 year old child begins to chop onions with exceedingly sharp chef's knife; yet to my way of thinking the sooner she learned to use a knife correctly the sooner I'd worry less about her getting to them and possibly cutting herself. We won't go into how she learned not to touch a hot stove but suffice to say it involved cooking parts of Dad inadvertantly. I can see "Mom" reacting the same way when I tell her that her Granddaughter plays D&D. So how about it folks - let's drop that old time religion and get on with something else. ---------------------------------------------------------------- GMAST Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gmast/
