Living in a gamer household. Never in
my wildest dreams did I think it was possible, never mind an
eventuality. But this is what happens, I have come to find out, when
you marry a closet gamer. Gamers beget more gamers, and so on and so
forth, until I am the... last... one... standing. Standing on a black
and gray hilltop of controllers, consoles, game cartridges, CDs,
cables and cords.
I'm a Barbie girl living in a Gamer world and my youngest daughter brandishes a morning star. Yep, her character of choice is a dark elf with lethal hands and a custom (she made it herself) morning star. For those of you not in the know of medieval weaponry, it's a big pointy ball at the end of a stick that you whack things with. My youngest and husband had tried playing a different role playing game where she was a sorceress (role play games are notoriously skimpy on the female characters, this one only had the one, and Baby Girl will only play girl characters). But she wasn't using her spells, she kept wanting to run up to the creatures in the game to "do battle" and such. This was annoying to my husband, her father, because her character was the most powerful thus far in the game- if she would use the spells- but she wasn't comfortable using spells. So the two of them bickered like two... I don't know... Gamers, over how to "play" a character. Jesus H. Christ! Play the game! Don't play! Play a different game! I don't care! Just Shut Up, Shut Up, SHUT UP!
They could play Candyland and it be very much the same. It would turn into a face off on what exactly a two color card meant. If you draw a candy cane card does it mean you do or don't have to go back? Every blessed line item will be looked up in the "rules". I play by the simplified "Rule of Mom", of how long do you want this game to last, and what "variation" will meet that objective. So no, you do not need to go back to the Candy Cane Forest. Mom's happy, Girlie's happy (she didn't loose spaces) but Dad is still stewing on the "handbook".
It's not all bad. He has been an incredible resource for my writing. His encyclopedic knowledge of the Dungeon and Dragons books, aka The Monster Manual and companions, has been a true source of inspiration. He even bought me my own set of books, just so I look at them at my leisure- how sweet was that? He knows the way to this girl's heart is with paper, preferably bound.
I'm a Barbie girl living in a Gamer world and my youngest daughter brandishes a morning star. Yep, her character of choice is a dark elf with lethal hands and a custom (she made it herself) morning star. For those of you not in the know of medieval weaponry, it's a big pointy ball at the end of a stick that you whack things with. My youngest and husband had tried playing a different role playing game where she was a sorceress (role play games are notoriously skimpy on the female characters, this one only had the one, and Baby Girl will only play girl characters). But she wasn't using her spells, she kept wanting to run up to the creatures in the game to "do battle" and such. This was annoying to my husband, her father, because her character was the most powerful thus far in the game- if she would use the spells- but she wasn't comfortable using spells. So the two of them bickered like two... I don't know... Gamers, over how to "play" a character. Jesus H. Christ! Play the game! Don't play! Play a different game! I don't care! Just Shut Up, Shut Up, SHUT UP!
They could play Candyland and it be very much the same. It would turn into a face off on what exactly a two color card meant. If you draw a candy cane card does it mean you do or don't have to go back? Every blessed line item will be looked up in the "rules". I play by the simplified "Rule of Mom", of how long do you want this game to last, and what "variation" will meet that objective. So no, you do not need to go back to the Candy Cane Forest. Mom's happy, Girlie's happy (she didn't loose spaces) but Dad is still stewing on the "handbook".
It's not all bad. He has been an incredible resource for my writing. His encyclopedic knowledge of the Dungeon and Dragons books, aka The Monster Manual and companions, has been a true source of inspiration. He even bought me my own set of books, just so I look at them at my leisure- how sweet was that? He knows the way to this girl's heart is with paper, preferably bound.
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