Sounds like your dad's gonna be fun to play with.

Okay... your dad is officially the best dad of /tg/

Moar!

>Dad breaks out, becomes Jason Bourne and also Conan

This is the only way it can end.

>other D&D players dads
Hey son, are ya winning?

>>13380336
Given that (1) we've had a shitty past few months dealing with mom's drinking problems and trying to get care for senile grandparents, seeing him light up like this means a lot.

I just want to thank /t/g for giving crazy-ass advice for trying shit like this and for encouraging me to wing it. My dad absolutely LOVED the burning abuse of alchemist's fire ("Oh shit! They're there goes the wagon!") and thought it was pleasantly bullshit when he one-hit killed a drow. Given that this is a man who think watching the Terminator is a little too 'out-there', this is a wonderful surprise.

Does /tg/ have any funny stoiries of getting skeptical or unenthusiastic parents to play a tabletop game and love it?

>>13380351
Close but he's no Kromgol

OP, you and your dad are awesome. I d'awwed a bit.

>Be 16
>Talking with friend about D&D
>Mom walks up
>"I heard Dungeons and Dragons was satanic"
>"I heard Rock N' Roll was the Devil"
>Trollface.jpg

>playing Planescape: Torment

"Ah, this is a lot better than that game with those red and green guys with chainsaws."

>mfw

>>13380511
>Be 16
>Talking with friend about D&D
>Mom walks up
>"I heard Dungeons and Dragons was satanic"
>Summon Azgorath Thrice-Bound, High Lord of Misery, Evoker of Twilight and Caller of the Hellguard
>Mom never bothers me again about D&D

>>13380442
It's actually funny. I thought he'd be all confused, but he was so tactical.

I ave the beguiler a piece of magical paper which looked like official documents with a successful bluff check (Doctor Who's psychic paper). Dad saw beguiler use this on a guard, just once (he failed spectacularly, had to use sleep on 'em).

Baddies are now sighted on the horizon.

This exchange ensues:

Dad: " You can light fires, right?"

Kobold DMPC with fire spells : "Yeah"

Dad: "You can convince these guys approaching that you're an official with that piece of paper, right?"

Beguiler with a newly liberated Hat of Diguise: "Just watch me."

Dad: "We get the sleeping guards on the cart, then we torch it. The guard come, you show up in a chef's outfit having a fit over your hotdog stand being burned down by two thugs. When the question you, show 'em you vendor's license."

>I look on and see the true manly ballsiness of it all
>I realize I have the most kickass father ever

>>13380617
The item in question, BTW, was borrowed from Eberron's The Midwife character:

http://eberron.wikia.com/wiki/Korth

/tg/s dad stories are always the best, they cheer me up reading things like this.

Goodluck with the DMing OP.

So there I was, browsing trough endless piles of shit, when suddenly I come across this thread, and lo, there is nuggets of gold among the shit after all!

OP, your dad is awesome and I suggest you give him a high-five from me.

>>13380617

>>13380721
Thanks.

I really sucked with the DM as I had no actual campaign setting planned. I had thought the chars would free themselves, then hunt down the cart and raid it to get their shit back. I wasn't expecting insurrection so soon.

They're now heading towards some woods, and encountered a shambling mound. I fucked it up as I forgot how to combat (HERP need to reread PHB chapter 8), but dad was getting tired so went to bed. Readlizing I had no chance to run TWO DMPCs plus a monster, I convinced our beguiler to give it a rest for the night.

I have some ideas I want to include, but they're scattered. I had an idea from an old Western where two warlocks with the Sniper eldritch blast invocation are holding the townsfolk hostage. The have have invocations which make them able to spiderclimb up walls and shit. Enter Our Tactical Heroes!

I just don't know how to run it properly.

I was thinking of using a pre-packaged campaign, but it feels like cheating and not quite as well planned (I want comething aimed at level 6 players - I figured I might as well start the characters out with some cool abilites besides 'wand of CLW heals you to full, so level 6 seemed like a god bet). Any modules or cmapigns which might work for a tactically minded group of madmen and their annoying Kobold pet?

>>13380816
By the sound of it your dad was having a good time, I think anything else is a bonus.

Get some advice off /tg/, try to plan some direction for them to go in without railroading them completely and then enjoy.

>>13380617
MO4R

Any more sessions planned?

I got into wargames as a kid. My mom thought it was expensive but cool, since I was making friends and she knew I wasn't spending money on drugs. And one more reason that I didn't find out about until I was an adult. (More later.) Then I had a falling out with the two guys I was gaming with.

Go to summer camp. Have a miserable experience. Come home, the guys that I used to game with officially want nothing to do with me. Can't find anybody else in town that games. (The nearest gaming store was an hour away.) Mom's spending a lot of time in her office. Imagine my surprise to hear my mom chanting "Here we go, here we go!"

Yes. While I was at summer camp, she learned to play (and bought) an Ork army.

Later, I get into RPing. Mom's hesitant at first, but asks to sit in on a session. Turns out, she plays a fuckawesome Ranger, doing all sorts of crazy shit. Cool! After that, I can play so long as she can read the books first. COOL! She becomes a regular in our games, and even gets into a game on the weekends instead of going to the bar. Awesome. Then she starts buying me GURPS books and shit.

In '09, I bought Black Reach for the two of us for Christmas. She about cried. While we were putting everything together, she confessed that she approved of me gaming not just because I was making friends. She saw an improvement in my grades, especially math. When I got into D&D, my grades in social studies improved.

Honestly? I don't care. Every time I visit her now, we break out the minis and play. That's enough for me.

>>13380925
manly tears

>>13380925

That is the single most beautiful thing I've ever read on this board.

>>13380982
It's copy+pasta anyway.

My dad's usually to doped up on hydromorphone to be able to comprehend rules like D&D's. This could be a nice way to bring him out of his slump though, I think I'll ask him if he wants to play sometime.

>>13380982

>>13380988
Then screen cap it for ease of repostan!

>>13380887
Yeah, next SAturday, ideally.

My dad may or may not want to join in. I'm gonna hopefully do combat right this time and have an honest MAN VS PLANT BRAWL here.

While I hope my Dad joins in again, I don't know if he will. He's is funny like that: sometimes he has a real great time with doing something, only to have some excuse to not take part in the activity again, using tha t"I don't know if I'll do it right this time" or some shit. So far, I have only one confirmed PC aside from Dad, but next week we might have a a friend of mine pop in to play her druid. I'm hoping I can convince him a second time, but I don't know if I have enough ranks in Diplomacy.

>>13380854
I realize railroading is for cockends, so I try and let them choose. My beguiler buddy is in on some of my harebrained ideas in as much as I bounce some ideas off of him to feel out how a good campaign could go (he's a good enough roleplayer to not abuse prospective knowledge). I told him I might had us hide in the woods before finding a path to a troubled village, so he suggested he take cover in some woods. Aside from that, he knows little else.

My fear is that I'm being too fast and loose, and can't cook up convincing campaigns effectively enough. I tend to think better when I have a plan in front of me, but I'm afraid that using a pre-packed story might tempt me to railroad.

Am I being paranoid? Or is this a legit concern?

Archived.

>>13380988
No it's not. I may have told the story before, but it's not copypasta.

Fun fact: She chose the Orks because their stuff reminded her of the Road Warrior for some reason. She's always wanted me to do up a set of Imperial Guardsmen, with the commander looking like Max.

Father
Aunt
Uncle
Step-Bro
Cousin


Family gaming group ftw.

>>13381010
Do what I do, just get a bit of world data, and compose most everything else on the spot. Have a few towns thought up and when the players ask if there's an X or Y decide in which town or region to place it. The best way to make it seem like everything isn't completely made up is to have some unique twist on one aspect of the area, like say, "Everyone in town A is a tad more religious than the surrounding cultures I wonder why? Well maybe it's because..." and just progress from there. If the players never find out, oh well, but it'll make things easier on you. I'm probably not explaining this well, but I'm a tad tired and a little depressed.

Good luck, man the closest I could ever get my dad to D&D was him trolling the fuck out of my group when I ran games and he happened to walk by. Still created some of the longest running injokes in my circle though.
"There's enough pointy ears in here to start a Star Trek convention."

One of these days, I will run the Thri-Kreen with two tommy guns and two hand grenades he suggested, In his memory. (Only two hand grenades because, in his own words "You ever fight anything that could take more than two hand grenades?")

I was always into roleplaying, and gamed every weekend or so. My parents never said anything, being glad that my hobbies weren't drug based.

When my mom passed away I feel into RPing heavily. It was an "Out" for me, a way to check out of the realities of the sadness that I felt. My father approved because he saw it as my coping method.

It's been a few years and I still RP every weekend. I've dealt with the death of my mother, and I've moved on. Recently, my father, too, has started moving on and seeing other women. I come home on the weekends to spend time with him and my group, but one particular weekend his 'date' told him she though I was a little old for little games like DnD, and that he should tell me as much.

He almost picked her up and threw her out of the house. I heard the commotion and asked Dad what had happened.

"She said the wrong shit."

>>13381113
Also,

http://chaoticshiny.com/index.php
http://www.seventhsanctum.com/
http://donjon.bin.sh/

>>13381010
Where do you live?

>>13381139
>>13381139
Dad is a bro.

>>13381162
canuckfag here. London, ON. Sorry, Amerifriends.

>>13381025
Are we archived on supTG? I'm searching, but I can't see squat (connection is SLOW: can't see down the list past 13206696)

>>13381221
Ah. Well shit. I was going to offer to DM for you and your friends/father.

Dad was a gm since Dungeons and Dragons first came out, gave me his first edition D&D handbook.
He met my mom at a gaming convention.
Result: I grew up in an Role-playing family.

I have no face.

>>13380449
My dad always asks me this.

"So who won?"
>everybody won

"So you're saying everyone's a winner?
>yeah

"When everyone's a winner, nobody is!"


and then dad was Syndrome

I tried to play D&D with my family once, and the game broke up because everyone got in a fight about what to do with Meepo (kill vs. recruit). Seriously!

We all play online in team games now, which goes a lot smoother. I still wonder what if sometimes though.

I tried to play DnD with my family once. One little sister made fun of me, the other couldn't concentrate for more than 10 non-consecutive seconds, my dad wasn't interested, and my mom was confused by the rules.

Feels bad, man.

>>13380925
I lost all my image macros recently so I'll have to make do with text: AWESOME.

>>13380816
Great hearing about your dad, he sounds like a badass.

Anyways, my first time DMing I used a 3.5 adventure (in 4e so I had to really pull stuff out on the fly, especially when the rogue one hit the boss). The adventure was called, Manifesting A Tale. You could go look it up, it's pretty much the first thing to come up.

Basically some lords daughter goes missing, so he hires adventurers to find her and investigate the mysterious hauntings. Turns out he had imprisoned her in part of the castle and is using his psionic powers to make the hauntings seem real.

It's a bit open ended, so you can make the castle look any way you want and you could change the story on the fly. My PCs pretty much ran around the castle and tore the place apart, snuck into the pantry to make sandwiches, seduced maids and all that while looking for the daughter. Also had the lord hypnotize two of the players which made combat much more interesting when they turned on each other.

Good luck DMing next.

>>13381257
You sir are a bro, and I thank you for your kindness.

My Beguiler buddy is treating this like a chance for me to improve my DMing skills. By Dad thinks this is great fun and it reminds him of some of the campfire games we used to tell as a kid (of shit when we'd take turns telling stories, and he'd add some bullshit elements to 'em, and I'd make 'em work).

I just think this is a great way for my dad, my buddy and me to bond.

>>13381143
Thanks for sharing. This will help with a lot of random encounters and stuff!

I think my biggest problem is that I have great ideas (An empire to the east is expanding, and it needs slaves to drive its economy! An Aboleth ate the brains of a PC's parent, and taunts the PCs with their childhood memories! A mostly amensiac warforged artificierwith an 8-year-old's mind is awakened by the PCs after decades - he wants you to find his Nymph childhood friend! The Lawful Good citystate ruled by the Grandfather Lich tries to rally the other nations to help combat the extraplanar threat of DEEP ROT!) but I fail on the nuts n bolts.

How do I make skeletons with a challenge rating of 1 a threat to a party of 3 level 6 characters? How do I award XP fairly? (I figured these out, in part - just add more Skeles to up the CR until it becomes balanced, and award XP by using the XP table on Wizards' site. Alternately: KULRATHI Skeles)

I think I've got it down, but I don't feel as confident as I ought to be.

Anyhow, I've gotta get to bed. School tomorrow and I gotta be ou at 930. If anyone has more stories about parents they'd like to contribute, share 'em!

>>13380925
That's fucking beautiful man.

>Manlytears.jpg

>>13380336
I hate you. I wish my dad was half this awesome.

Also that he wasn't a neglectful alcoholic who ran up six digits of credit card debt while cheating on my mom.

>>13381852

The only time my dad ever joins games is when he comes in, decided what we're doing is "faggy", and then slams on the table to simulate an earthquake. Anyone who falls over is dead.

40k btw.

>>13382832
its as if khorne himself decides to come out and bitch-slap the battlefield

>>13380449

Fuuuuuuck.
My Dad asked us this every single time he walked into the room.

This thread's fucking gold. My father is still convinced "normal people" don't have time to devote a night on their weekends to gaming. Mind you, he also thinks two kids butchered each other with axes due to it in the '70s.

>>13382832
>>13382850
KHORNE CARES NOT FROM WHENCE THE BLOOD FLOWS

>Go home for New Year's
>Folks are playing card games at the table
>Borrowed Race for the Galaxy to play with my little brother
>Fuck it, why not try to get the relatives in on this
>Try hard to explain the really complicated parts, have to walk my mom and my aunt through the game for several turns
>Unbelievable patience from those two
>Tell my aunt that now that she played two cards that gave her bonuses to Develop (Investment Credits and Export Duties, I think) she should play development cards the rest of the game
>My face when she owns everyone else with 36 points

>>13382902
I shit blood. that count?

>>13380449
That might as well be a picture of my dad.
Hes the biggest troll I know.

>>13382832
My father used to do the same thing. Except change "table" for "face" and "playing 40k" to "eating breakfast".

bump

Posting one of the best /tg/ manly tears

>Be a Dad
>Find out son (13 years old) wants to play 40k with his friends
>Find out he's making a Tau army
>Bring minis from the attic and teach him the ropes

That was about half a year ago, I think I posted on /tg/ about it. Anyway, now:

>Son regularly plays 40k with his friends
>Was in a couple of tournaments at the LGS
>Got pretty far in one of the tournaments
>One of the two guys that play Tau

I am proud. So, so proud.

>>13383635
You know there's a chance your son could end up here one day don't you?

Pic related, it's my face the first time you see your sons futa tau.

>>13383653
like a 14 year old doesn't know what 4chan is

>>13383653

>Implying implications

I'm from a Balkan country, maybe 1% of the population knows 4chan exists. A friend in Germany showed this site to me 2 years ago and I haven't met maybe two people who know what this is.

>>13383607

It's really depressing when someone that young does something like that.

What bothers me is why the mother wouldn't say what was going on. That whole thing could have been avoided if things went differently.

>>13383678

By "going on" I mean tell the police her story.

>>13383607
oh fuck
im such a whiny sensitive pussy

>>13383683

I was in a family like that (dad was alcoholic and beat mom a lot), and it's hard as fuck to admit trouble to people, even officials. Combine that with the posters non-english speaking country (the language remark betrays it's not an English country) and it gets even worse because the families are more nuclear outside GB and US

>>13383607
That's so sad :(

At least he got a bit of joy. My tears aren't so manly, though.

>>13383665
Most should by now.

>>13383667
There's nothing being implied here, it's just good to see son and farther gaming that won't shit up FLGS's.

>>13383667

>Balkan
>LGS

waitwaitwait

Since when do third world countries have enough money to buy 40k?

>>13383724

0/10

>>13383724

While this probably is a bad troll, it's the only LGS in the country and has just enough traffic that it survives. They mostly get profit from DnD players but there are some 40k players. They fully stock only Space Marines and Orks and have only basic units for all the rest, but you can order advanced stuff with the owner.

Oh god the Jewish kid... Sincere, manly tears go out to you Jakob...

>Dad: you know, I'd really like to try Paranoia some day.

Dad, as much as I like you, we're not that sort of friends. I could maybe GM D&D for you but Paranoia has a different player-GM relationship and it would just be awkward as fuck. You'll have to try and find a Paranoia GM yourself. Something that you'll never do. So you'll never play Paranoia.

Things unsaid.

It is this post that I will bump, for the glory of awesome.

Another bump

my dad was never into D&D or any /tg/ stuff, but I still have him to thank for my interest in science fiction and fantasy. My dad is an old school Sci-Fi nerd. He has a section of his bookshelf in his office full of old sci-fi digests of some sort, I don't remember what the exact title is. He also has 2 books autographed by Asimov. Instead of normal bedtime stories, my dad used The Tell-Tale Heart and The Hobbit. Instead of the usual lullabies that parents sing, my dad used the Grateful Dead, and when I was 5 I'd memorized "Friend of the Devil". Hell, my dad let me watch the David Lynch DUNE when I was in 2nd fucking grade.

My dad did the whole "who won?" thing once.
I tried to explain.
15 minutes later I dont know if he got it or not, he just said "yeap" and thats that.

>myparentsaredeeeeeead.jpg

Well, my dad anyway.
This thread makes me sad.

>My parents are divorced alcoholics.

>>13383667
You should tell that to /int/. A good amount of the regulars are Croatian and Serbian.

>>13383667
define balkan country
because I live in one and I know A LOT of people that browse various 4chan boards
also where the fuck do you buy warhammer minis

>>13383745
Are you talking about Črna Luknja by any chance?

>>13383667
>>13385288
ITT people with small reference pools.

You know who introduced me to DnD? My sister's alcoholic, druggie ex-husband. The man was an absolute loser in every sense of that word. But he had such amazing DnD stories... My sister and him even said one year that they would buy the books for me for my birthday. They never did, but the stories so inspired me that in the 7th grade, I asked for all the 3.5 corebooks for christmas. By the time I actually started playing the game though, he was gone.

So now I am the sole gamer in my house. Sister 1 has child-duties, would like to but can't. Sister 2 has severe migraines and gets fucked at the complexity end of things. Sister 3 just doesn't give a big enough shit (but apparently takes great pride in the contrast between our personalities?). Dad is too fucking busy being a capitalist/entrepreneur/mad scientist. Mom would get lost at the d20. The three boyfriends are either too busy, or don't give a shit. Everyone else lives 3,000 miles away. I am the sole gamer in my household, and indeed, the whole family. Thank fucking god there are so many fa/tg/uys and gamers in my backwater suburb. I'd be one ronery fucker otherwise. Objective now: find ONE WOMAN in my area who games. JUST ONE. They don't exist here. ????

>>13385659
Of course you couldn't have known at the time, but there are *much* simpler RPGs than D&D 3E. I wouldn't recommend 3E for anyone's first experience.

>>13385755
Ya, 3.5 is pretty bad to make an entrance on, especially if, you know, there's nobody to actually game with at the time. It was a good 4 years before I got into RPing, and that was with Shadowrun and DnD 4e.

Actually, I made my start GMing (with no prior experience playing) Pathfinder. As it is, I'm doing fine. I made a lot of clumsy mistakes with the rules early on, but that's how you get better at this.

>>13385978
I'm not saying it can't be done, and I expect your case is far from unique given how popular D&D is. It's just a bad idea.

>my parents met playing D&D in the 70s
>played long on-going campaigns through the early 80s up to when I was born
>my face when I find out all my childhood pets are named after their PCs

>>13386164
>up to when I was born

your face when you realize your birth killed their gaming

>>13380925
This story is awesome. Are you a Britfag? Here in Amurrka, D&D and anything like D&D was Satanic in the 80s. I wasn't allowed to play. Ironically, it was King's Quest that my parents and I bonded over, which had pretty much the exact same content as D&D, namely dungeons and/or dragons.

>>13380336
This pic is the exact opposite of OP's face when this happened

>>13386227
Tripfags these days can't even post macro images properly?

Good god man.

>>13386247
Actually, the proper image would've been
>DadIamproudtohaveyouasmyfather.jpg
But I have never found such a pic.

>>13381421
OP, let me liberate you with some advice. Don't worry about the little shit so much. Maybe every few sessions say "BAM. You're leve 7." The more you worry about things that don't matter, the more the cool stuff will go by.

Good luck with your dad.

It was ages ago, but I hid my /tg/ hobbies from my parents. In the early days, we tried pretty much everything to home-brewn, every friday at our ULTRA SIKRIT MEETING PLACE, that was something called old bomb shelter built house, which NO-ONE ever used.

Of course, my parents wondered what the hell I was doing all those fridays, and so they hired a PI to stalk me.

Wait, you folks heard this one before?

My dad doesn't play D&D anymore due to lack of time. But he used to, in fact one awesome story of his convinced me to finally go and play it.

When he was 17, he was very involved with this church. Well, a couple of priests from neighboring counties had all come to this one for some event. He mentioned D&D to them, and they all asked him, "Isn't that of the devil?"
Now they all knew and trusted my dad, knew he was a good kid. So if he said it was good, it was good.

So he convinced them to try playing a game.

6 priests, he tried to help them roll up a balanced party, but strangely nobody wanted to be a cleric. So he starts up the game for them, "You're all traveling down a road, when a man comes running up to your group, he-"

one of the priests jumps up from the table, excited "I ATTACK HIM! WHAT DO I ROLL?!"
My father is stunned by this, "I, uh...don't you want to- nevermind. 1d20+7"
The priest rolls like his life depends on it. Natural 20. He throws up his arms and starts high-fiving the other priests, they're all really into it.

They spend the rest of the game tactically mugging everyone they see, and killing anyone who resisted.

After the game, they all thanked my dad for his time, confirming that the game was in no way evil.

>>13386473

>Party of CE priests

>mfw

>>13386473
>your face when you realise that you are part of the reason he has no time to play it any more

>>13380511
>Be 16.
>Talking with friend about D&D.
>Dad walks up.
>"I heard Dungeons and Dragons was satanic."
>Cast the "Mind Bondage" spell on him and get him to buy me $200 of D&D figures and manuals.

MFW

>>13383607
>mfw

>>13386473

>>13386326

This sounds absolutely golden. Please tell us.

>>13386326

Tell me more.

>>13386994
I know D:

he has to work full time to support me and the rest of the family - but I promised him that whenever he has the time, I'll run him a game.

>>13386326
Did the PI just assassinate this guy or something?
OUT WITH IT, MAN!

I've got a rather awesome dad, but he's not the /tg/ kind of awesome. He's a bit old fashioned, but mainly in the good ways.

Growing up he became an Eagle Scout in Michigan, so he know all sorts of awesome stuff about survival, hunting, and weaponry.
For a long time, he worked in a GM motor factory, and knows alot about the inner workings of many types of vehicles and how to fix things.

While raising my brothers and I, he taught us this stuff, but didn't force it upon us like some parents would. He knew I wasn't as interested in cars, so he only would teach me the more important and basic things about maintenance.

While he was a Christian, he was smart enough to know that videogames and D&D were sources of entertainment, and not works of the devil. While he didn't quite enjoy them himself, he accepted that they could be a rather social activity.

He's got at least three lifetimes worth of stories, having experienced so many types of events. I'm sure that if he were to roll up a character that it would be rather awesome, or that if he were willing to learn the rules of 40k that he'd quickly become a good player. (I could see him choosing IG due to it being the least "out there" army.)

I realize it's not really /tg/ related, but I felt like sharing nonetheless.

>>13389028
That's the awesome kind of father, where they took ranks in the prestige class Dad. The kind of one that teaches you the important shit in life, but lets you walk your own road, and the kind of person who doesn't swallow other people's garbage and actually reasons things for himself.

We never had much as a kid. Dad could only work part time jobs since he couldn't get disability, and Mom's job gave us enough to get by. So even though the PS had just come out, I was excited to get a Super Nintendo and five whole games they got at a garage sale. One of those games was Chrono Trigger.

I don't know how many nights we sat in the living room, them watching me play that game. Sure, they'd have books they'd be reading, but still, they always seemed to be paying attention to the game.

Then, being the kid I was, I decided I wanted to make one some day. I remember that summer, sitting at the kitchen table with Dad, working on the mechanics. How do you decide if you hit, miss, damage, spells... All the mechanics of it all. Then I remembered, OH YEAH, STORY.

For four years, our weekends were spent at the table coming up with the story. It didn't start off as roleplaying, not really. Just them helping me come up with stuff. But as time went on, they were "playing my game." They had cool characters that formed the party, and I'd... Hell, I was GM, and they each had a stable of characters that formed the four-man party and reserve characters.

Four years. Jesus. To think that I brushed off the other kids at school so that I could play with my parents.

I didn't get into roleplaying proper until college. During summer break I'd bring my books home and we'd do that instead. My system was... overly complicated, more designed for a video game than proper roleplaying.

Pardon me. I need to call the folks.

I read this thread and I laughed and I cried and then I laughed some more.

Have a great 2011 guys.

>mfw i don't have stories to tell

I think I'm finally going to get around to playing Magic with my mom. She said she'd give it a go. Casual decks only, of course.

My dad and I work together as contractors, we get along well but he has no interest in 40K or D&D. He likes Star Trek, however. It's probably for the best, I'd rather play D&D and 40K with my friends than with my dad. He has expressed interest when I built my wargaming table in his shop - "That would be cool with some Civil War soldiers or something."

>>13385978
Same here. I had always been interested in playing a table top RPG, but never had anyone to play with. My friends are fairly nerdy, but I didn't think any of them would be interested in playing.

One day I picked up some Pathfinder books and was surprised when one of my friends took an interest. A few days later, we were with some of my other friends, and that first friend who took an interest says we should roll some characters. Next thing I know, I am a GM and have a whole table full of players.

To add something to the thread topic: My dad has never understood or been supportive of any of my hobbies. He made a point of always letting me know that the things I was into were stupid or a waste of time. I'm 24 now, and it's a bummer that I have never been able to spend any time with him. He's the type of guy that comes home from work, sits in a recliner. and watches Fox News, baseball, and reality TV. He prides himself on never having read a book in his entire life. We just don't have anything in common. I am envious that OP's dad even gave it a chance before labeling it "gay".

Bum

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Reading this brought a mantear to my eye.

When my father gets back from his trip Michigan tomorrow, I'm going to try to do something to show how much I appreciate him for how awesome he is.