[overflow] Re: GHHS

[mbottorff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michelle & Boyd Bottorff)]

> > I strongly reccommend concerned adults volenteering to provide this sort
> > of time and attention for the kids at their local schools.  Start a
> > gaming club or a music club or something.  It isn't as good a solution
> > as actually having a full time parent on hand,  but it's much better
> > than nothing, and it DOES give the bullied kids a safe place to go.
> 
> Oh, you mean like D&D?  </pain&sarcasm>

Er, yes.  Although D&D has a bad name.  It might be "safer" to play some
other roleplaying game.   I'm afraid I don't understand why the
"pain&sarcasm." 

Tracy Hickman (co-creater of DragonLance and the origianl RavenLoft
moduals) once told about how he was a youth leader in Church and he
figured he'd never seen a bunch of boys who needed to play a roleplaying
game worse.  So he tried to have D&D as a youth activity, and the Bishop
said, "I'm sorry, some of the parents have concerns."  So he switched
his genre from fantasy to science fiction, and everyone was happy.

The boys couldn't stop fighting amoungst themselves, by the way, and
eventually got the entire party blown-up.  The parent who came to
observe was very impressed.  :)

Michelle Bottorff
Lady Lavender


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