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coolraygun 03-17-04, 03:50 PM	When I was in my teens, and early 20's one of my many D&D games included my younger sister. I never lost the D&D bug, and now that I am in my late 30's I still find the time to play. (Not as much as I would like to, but I still get to play, and I have been buying the heck out of the DDM's). I recently got to go back to my home town where my sister and her new husband live. During the course of conversation I found out they had been playing Neverwinter Nights for PC, and her husband was an old D&D gamer, but he apparently hadn't played D&D in years.... After a night of swapping nostalgic stories about our old first edition characters, and me telling them how much I enjoyed 3rd Edition, the next day they went out and bought the Yellow basic D&D box, and an Entry Pack of D&D Minis. Its been a few weeks since my visit, and I just got an email from my little sis, and she was all excited telling me stories of their gaming sessions, that include... her husband, her sister-in-law, and her 6 and 12 year old kids... the youngest is a boy the oldest is a girl... (my little punk rock neice, she is so cool..) Apparently they have been having a blast, and my sis is all excited because she is DM-ing, and its turned into a family game night thing... I cant help but appreciate the irony of this... D&D, so maligned, is a family game night at my sisters house... I cant say enough how proud of her I am... I know to some this must seem really silly, but I wanted to share this with some people that might appreciate it, both the developers, and fellow gamers alike. Vive le D&D!
Wil_Hyral 03-17-04, 03:59 PM	Unlike most other posts, I actually do hope Mark or Andy see this. It's not even that D&D was perverted into a family game. The 1980s were radically different than contemporary American life, on cultural notes. A boob on TV now makes more news than I think it should but back then, my god it would have been devastating. Reagan didn't rule over a liberal America. Videogames, Lord of the Rings, and a few other pieces of now-pop culture have made themselves so readily apparent that it's hard for families to deny the validity of D&D. Of course, the game is more toned-down now than it used to be, but not by such a stretch of the imagination that a family that once hated it would now love it. Glad to hear about the story though, that was very cute.