Comments on: Chatty's Bedtime Campaign: Nico's Party!

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By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:31:37 +0000

@Ford: Welcome to the blog. Nice Monocle you inherited there.

Geekiness is defined in some circles as passionate interest in subjects outside of the mainstream. While computers have been accepted by society at large, Fantasy, Pocket Monster shows, Sci-Fi, reading stuff like Harry Potter and other common geeky pursuits are prone to be frowned upon/misunderstood by some more ‘classic’ and or conservative people.

I mean, my mom used to get calls from other mothers about me playing/teaching D&D to their sons. She did take one day to go through my AD&D rules books, chuckled at the naked art in the DMG (we’re French, art nudity is not an issue) and told the mothers that she trusted my judgment as long as I kept my grades up.

Just look at how challenging it was for some gamers to play D&D when living in more religiously conservative households.

Hmmm, you know what? I just may post about this tomorrow night as a Chatty’s Question. Thanks for the inspiration!

By: Ford

Ford — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:14:20 +0000

You mention that “geeky parenting” gets criticized a lot, what do you mean by that? I’m not a parent myself but will be within a few short years, so knowing people’s opinions on how I choose to raise my children will be something I’d like to know ahead of time.

Also, great story. Your son is a better player than some adults I know!

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:45:56 +0000

@Pondscum: I forgot to welcome you! So sorry! Thanks for De-lurking! I’m honored that you liked this story so much!

@Nakia: Hey Prof! I think that gamers have a high chance of making gamer kids if the children are introduced to the paraphelia early in life. Mine have been playing with cards and D&D mini ever since they stopped putting things in their mouth.

@Baboune: Salut my adoptive Swedish friend! Thanks! Yes he’s a big boy now, just started 1st grade this week.

By: Baboune

Baboune — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:38:07 +0000

Great job Phil!

Mwaah nico is getting older! So nice…

By: Nakia

Nakia — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:41:02 +0000

This is just marvelous stuff. I really hope to do things like this with my family some day. My daughter is only 16 months, but she already knows the word “dragon”!

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:37:12 +0000

Yeah, this was profound validation in my role as a geeky parent (a parenting style that gets criticized by many families… thankfully not mine).

So I guess you’re telling me I should continue to post these?

I’ll see what I can do. I want to focus on Kobold Love and my new campaign, but I definitively will record any such story with Nico.

By: Czar

Czar — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:31:11 +0000

What a great way to get inside his mind to see just how well your parenting efforts have been succeeding.

I really look forward to reading these re-caps.

By: Ninetail

Ninetail — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:21:25 +0000

That’s one bright little guy.

I hope you do keep posting these; I’ve really enjoyed following them.

Ninetails last blog post..Battlegrounds: Alchemist’s Lab

By: Tomcat1066

Tomcat1066 — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:00:49 +0000

Great story Chatty! I know my son surprises me with how mature he can be while playing a game. I feel it lets them learn right and wrong from the victim’s perspective without them actually being a victim…never a bad thing in my book. And, if they do bad things, they can see there are repercussions for those acts as well.

Thanks for sharing this story. While Nico will probably make one hell of a GM, he’ll also make one hell of a player as well!!!!

Tomcat1066s last blog post..The Burned Lands Part 1 – The Beginning

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:32:06 +0000

Thank you so much one and all. This has been a most satisfying experience both with my son and by sharing it with you.

Should I ever write a book about GMing, I will definitively put those 3 posts in a chapter called ‘Learning GMing from playing with children’.

By: greywulf

greywulf — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:18:14 +0000

Yep. You were owned. Completely

Fantastic stuff Phil. You’ve got one uber-gamer in the making there.

greywulfs last blog post..Character du Jour: Rawn Blackraven

By: Psygnnosed

Psygnnosed — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:10:59 +0000

I would risk saying that this was one of those moments when the DM got totally OWNED by the player’s answers!
Thanks a lot, Nicolas and Philippe, for these three chapters. You managed to sit me reading a child story with Pokemons and enjoy it!

And Chatty… what on earth do you mean with “That I will definitively keep on doing , I might just not write about it”
How dare you! I’ll… kidnap Nico’s father again if you do so!

By: PondScum

PondScum — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:04:25 +0000

I’ll give up my lurker status to say; “Very Cool!”
I had more fun reading Nico’s Adventure than looking over new adventures in Dungeon or Dragon Magazine. Well done Nico and Phil!

By: Questing GM

Questing GM — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:07:32 +0000

Good story. Good ending! Thanks for sharing Chatty! Questing GMs last blog post..Questing GM taking an Extended Rest

By: Sasha

Sasha — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:25:46 +0000

I have to admit you being right about the kid growing up to be a great game master. Hell, I expect a lot less from my own regulars :p

You’re right to be proud, Chatty, and I’m pretty sure you’re greatly contributing to the next generation of our roleplaying community.

Go Nico! You’re the herald of the next generation! *Raises flag and looks really, really intense*

Cheers to you both :p

By: Stupid Ranger

Stupid Ranger — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:15:53 +0000

Thanks for sharing, Phil! I really enjoyed Nico’s triumphant introduction to role playing! You can tell him he did a great job of being a noble champion.