mhoyeIt's not really a recognized life milestone, but growing up through the Satanic Panic as I did, I'd like to take a minute to say, my son is running his first home-made D&D campaign with his friends today, and I'm proud of him.
He's got a small party of friends he's described as "One person who wants to be a wizard in a story , two super-aggro minmaxers and one guy who's never played and has no idea what he's doing", and like... that's basically my internal monologue, all the time? I think he's going to be great.
What our parents were told D&D was about: Satanism, blood rituals, animal and occasionally human sacrifice.
What D&D actually is: Cooperative storytelling, stand up comedy, group therapy and first-year applied statistics.
sultmhoor@mhoye and so many, many dick jokes
thejikz@sultmhoor @mhoye filing under: Anatomy 99.
Ben Zanin@mhoye SPREADSHEETS
@gnomon ... and spreadsheets, fine.
@gnomon ... and to answer your next question, yes, you can try to seduce the spreadsheet. Roll a D20.
cratermoon@cratermoon @gnomon that’s not a charisma stat so you’ll get no bonus for this roll.
Hydrian
Maestro Mushi@mhoye understanding rules as a way to benefit the common good and moving from that when it doesn’t (I.e shutting down rules lawyers that ruin the experience for the rest)
Mike Conley (:mconley) ⚙️@mhoye BATTLEMATH \o/
Robots can be gay deal with it@mhoye The scariest thing about DnD, is that the controversy tells us how the opposed thinks and interacts with the world.
You and I both know I'm not actually Montgomery Gator the copyright character. I'm just playing him at times on the Internet because I think he's an interesting character with unexplored depth that I really vibe with. He became a comfort character that helped me through some depression (sicking an imaginary ego monster on your depression demon is surprisingly effective).
According to their world view, and how their minds apparently work, they could not maintain the separation between perceived objective reality and imagined fiction. They would actually start believing they are Montgomery Gator. They believe a demon from hell, would take the form of Montgomery Gator to inhabit my body (hot...) to worship Satan if I did the thing I'm doing.
Modeling what their internal mental architecture looks like, based on their assumptions they make of others should scare the hell out of everyone.
BrambleBearGrrrauling@mhoye Really??? That actually sounds fun. Might have to reconsider and check it out after all these decades of ignorance.
chicating@mhoye Must admit I never played, but my teenaged uncle went through a stage--all those naked centaurs and water sprites were something of an education for me at age 9 or so.
draNgNon@mhoye I especially felt the group therapy aspect of it the first year or so of pandemic. setting it up for VC and regular sessions kept us all together.
kaos 🔞@mhoye And although still quite rare, the occasional human sacrifice does occur. However, these are more align with the generally acceptable principle that whenever several humans gather, sooner or later someone decides that a sacrifice would liven up the festivities and is not a direct result of playing D&D in and of itself.
Claudine C 
@mhoye And scheduling. Don't forget scheduling!
Julie SqveakarooAnd learning that D4s are caltrops and they hurt worse than stepping on a lego piece.
Stumpy The Mutt@mhoye I miss the nonsense like Pink Bubblegum Monsters we used to dream up.
Paranoid Goblinoid@mhoye @AntonPNym and Elf-Dwarf racial tension
Estarriol, Terrorist Dragon@mhoye at school early 80s, I explained to my english teacher what RPGs are (as I played them) and she thought they were a great way to get imaginations and creative writing working, while teaching basic maths as well.
Christian Kent 𝘊𝘒 :＼﹥@mhoye @pseudonym We can’t be having that. In a neofeudalist society, ironically of all things.