Achievement Unlocked: Legacy DM

Wizards of the Coat put up an article about playing Dungeons & Dragons with children earlier this month. RPGs were a huge part of my childhood and teenage years and continue to be an important aspect of my life today. RPGs also play a role in most of my relationships with other people: my father gave me high fantasy books when I was in elementary school, my husband-to-be and I discuss RPGs as a conversational default, and the vast majority of the time that my siblings and I have spent together has been playing D&D on my sister's bedroom floor. I know how to grapple, I can explain the distinctions between chaotic, neutral, and lawful alignments, and I still haven't picked up any 5th edition manuals because 3.5 is what I grew up with and I'm rather attached.

I've always figured that I would play RPGs with my husband and my children. Family Dungeons & Dragons every Saturday night would be a part of my personal legacy. Mothers used to give sewing machines and make-up advice. I'm a millenial gamer, a woman who anticipates teaching her sons and daughters how to plot campaigns and weave a good story for the table.

Blame the turn-of-the-century gnomes.

Community knows where it's at.

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