Nathan went to a birthday party yesterday in which the highlight of the party was a several hour long game of D&D. It was the first he'd ever played it and he loved it! Despite the fact that he's not so great of an actor, he still loved the roll play aspect. And of course, stealing daggers, killing the bad guys, and being the only one with healing powers which made him well loved (or at least needed) by all, certainly helped. I asked Nathan to pray before our dinner last night and he thanked God for the food (and that's where the kid prayers usually end), then he rolled into a several sentence round of gratitude for the game Dungeons & Dragons and his chance to play it at the party. lol!
What a delight to not only see him enjoy himself so thoroughly, but also to savor the definite zing of irony that he thanked God for the game.
This is a great game that gets a bad rap. It encourages use of imagination and creativity.
ReplyDeleteLOL Don't let him get involved in World of Warcraft...he'll give up Legos forever, just like Jake did.
ReplyDeleteD&D is a fun game, and I don't see why people hate it on religious grounds. Sure there is the chance to play evil characers, and worship evil gods, but this is strongly discouraged in the handbooks themselves, and is more common for people to be Good or Neutral than Evil.
ReplyDeleteI played a Bard/Cleric and loved it.
I always heard it was a gateway for indoctrinating kids into satan worship since it has characters who use magic but are good guys. Also, in it even good characters worship gods (thing LG clerics).
ReplyDeleteBut, like you, I see that all as ignorance and reactionary responses based on a lack of knowledge and a lot of assumptions of the game. I was DM for an ongoing campaign for a long time and we all had a blast. And, unlike Tom Hanks, none of us tried to jump off of a building to fly or have real sword fights.
OMG!!!! really?!?!?!? does it have about a hundred billion zillion quadrillion teeny little pieces that will be laying all over the floor for me to step on with my bare piggies? or will all of that be gone *echo, "gone, gone, gone"*?!
ReplyDeletewhat movie is that from?
ReplyDelete"Mazes And Monsters", one of the first D&D attack films that I know. Hanks plays a guy who doesn't know where the game ends and reality begins and, at one point, climbs on top of a building and attempts to jump off to prove he can fly, just like his character.
ReplyDeleteIt was a very bad movie, full of misinformation about the game. The characters in the movie walked around with these big totem representations of their player characters, and the general play was silly. IIRC, they went through a little ritual before starting play and stuff that just doesn't happen but would feed into the ignorance and fear at the time.
He will forget everything else exists in the world and everything else he previously loved will be forgotten or used only to fill time that he has to go without WoW. It's definitely an addiction.
ReplyDeleteso are bionicles (and lego.com).
ReplyDeleteYes...and they were for Jake too. He's now outgrown them though...which I thought would NEVER happen.
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