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Kids Play TTRPGs
There are plenty of people who started playing D&D or other TTRPGs as kids. Heck, imaginative play (which all kids engage in on some level and in some manner) is central to what TTRPGs do. Roleplaying is a critical part of developing your child self as a person!
So what's the benefit of giving kids a rule-bound system like D&D, Quest, or Kids on Bikes? Why should kids play TTRPGs and not just make-believe?
TTRPGs teach boundaries.
Some of this depends on how a particular group runs, but a healthy TTRPG group teaches kids where boundaries are and how to respect them.
This can show up in lots of ways.
letting dice determine success
working within the limitations of a class, feature, or spell description
avoiding upsetting or scary topics, as requested by a player
offering trigger warnings and safety tools
accepting when a GM says no
respecting when another player says no
Some of those things are organic to telling a story together. Some of them are brought in to keep the game fun for everyone, like safety tools. All of these examples—and more!—help kids practice boundaries one step removed from real life, where things are a bit harder.
TTRPGS provide escape.
As adults, we think of TTRPGs as escape from the crushing reality we live in. We can free ourselves from the news cycle or our social media feeds for a few hours and pretend we live in a world where our actions are world-changing (and I'm talking saving-the-world-from-evil-powers world-changing).
Kids need escape too! Not so that they're living outside of the world, but so they can practice the skills they need to live within it.
It's way easier to advocate for your PC who's scared of creepy crawlies than it is to admit your skin crawls around your buddy's pet snake.
Kids can practice all sorts of social skills in the freedom of TTRPGs because those games provide escape and distance from the world they actually inhabit.
For example:
admitting fears
facing conflict
handling disagreement
learning about themselves
experimenting with consequences (from stealing a loaf of bread to going full murderhobo at times)
setting goals and making plans
Games are low stakes ways for all of us to practice tough conversations or new social skills. Why not let kids get a leg up by teaching them to role play?
TTRPGs build confidence.
Practice makes perfect, and TTRPGs are a great place to practice your sense of self (while inhabiting a character).
As kids get more confident roleplaying their PC, they learn gain confidence in who they are and speaking from that place.
This doesn't look like adults might expect though. We think of the bard suddenly offering a grand speech, or the shy loner forging bonds with the rest of the party.
Kids gaining confidence might not look like what you expect (more on that another time), but TTRPGs help clear the path for confident, empowered kids. And that's something worth making space for!
#ttrpgs#ttrpgkids#kids play ttrpgs#gamer kids#growing up with ttrpgs#growing up with dnd#confidence#social skills#boundaries#dnd#D&D#roleplaying#roleplaying games#tabletop#ttrpg community#make believe#make believe is for kids too
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Superbat parenting babies would be a breeze in my humble opinion. Bruce's medically well-versed enough and immune to even enhanced interrogation levels of sleeplessness, and loves kids and would probably be happy reading them stories to sleep every night.
And Clark could always tell if the kid swallowed fridge magnets/batteries/something else. Also, tell me which baby wouldn't enjoy Clark's presence and calmness. They'd be like little hamsters cajoled by the steadiness of his hold.
#I think Clark has demonstrated pretty great parenting and he's also immensely kind while balancing out certain rules#And toddlers would beg to be flown around.#maybe this is too optimistic#considering that B's track record with kids isn't perfect#but I genuinely believe they have a decent shot#I feel like the gentleness and kindness of Thomas from Batman Begins is kind of a good example of what I'd picture a calmer Bruce's mentall#stable parenting to be like#batman#superman#superbat#clark kent#bruce wayne#and I'm also willfully ignoring some stuff/chalking it up to questionable writing/can't be bothered to make sense of everything that's cano
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“i believe in you so what’s left is for you
to believe in yourself.” – han
for @hyunsung ♡
#stray kids#han jisung#bystay#staysource#ultkpopnetwork#boo :( you know i’m a little not normal about dates and traditions etc etc but today it’s the 6th of december and#i’ve been making a silly little set for you for three years now (ue) so :( here’s year fourth (!!!!) edition of dec 6th mini digital gift :#i know this is a bit too orangish (?) (sigh) but he’s also -> ☁️ and i hope it can still make you a little happy happy :(#also can you believe the fourth gif is the only han x snow content? doesn’t he know his red thread bro is polar bear???? (wayes @ me)#143x8 ❤️🩹!#bha 🐿️🌨️#emsigifs#for m 🍃#*mine#*kpop#p.s. no tags pinky promise or i will never make gemi (nanon + fourth) set! (and no doctor romantic either)
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you’re on your own kid / yeah you can face this
I started this Parse comic almost a year ago (!) but I’ve only just managed to put it together now. I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about Kent and how he mostly exists in bits and pieces as seen through the eyes of other characters.
There’s just something about being haunted and defined by your past (mistakes) but also finding strength on your own. (And how there can still a hopeful ending despite it all.)
#my art#omgcp#omgcheckplease#omg check please#kent parson#kp#kvp#pimms#(ish)#jack zimmermann#check please#this is the real version finally!! so sorry about the accidental posting of one of the drafts earlier 🥲#I can’t believe this took so long… a YEAR#I’ve had most of it finished for a YEAR#but here it is#I had to cut a few lyrics and images to make it flow better#a couple of the cut pics I really wish I could have managed to fit in there but alas#besides it was mostly like. parse being ghosted after jack’s overdose. the pics were too static of that makes sense#the song is you’re on your own kid by Taylor swift#yes I firmly believe that kent parson is the check please character most likely to be a swiftie#and I stand by that#honestly in universe parse has probably been to at least one of her parties#as a fellow celeb cat parent#a lot of this song is very kvp and some of it is a bit more handwavy ~it fits the vibes~
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STOP INHUMANE FURBY BREEDING PRACTICES
#taikko talks 2 much#WHAT HAPPENED#im not that into the furby fandom but oh my god#i dont necessarily hate it with a burning passion and rage i just cant believe the difference between the old and new furbies#i dont like it and its not for me but that's about it#something about overly cute kids toys like these make me a little nauseous#back in the 90s things were cute but in the modest way it was simple living cute it was pleasing in the comforting way#cute things now are too hyper to me if that makes sense#things r too eye catching hyper cute instead of homey simplicity cute#or maybe thats just me idk#furby#furby love#furby 1998#furby community#furby fandom#furblr
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Okay, so my experience with Stranger Things is a weird one.
I didn't care when it first came out, started to watch it out of "might as well" in 2020, wasn't interested in it enough to make it past S2, forgot about it outside of going "oh, hey, cool, there's a lesbian in it now, I guess," in S3, got really annoyed when "Running Up That Hill" got popular from it because it was a song I listened to on fucking loop after one of my best friends died in high school and I fully expected its appearance in the show to ignore the whole survivor's guilt theme of the song (and was very happy to learn later that it did the exact opposite of ignoring the lyrics), saw people drawing Eddie, suddenly got a lot more interested, watched just the fourth season like a fucking psychopath because I was seriously only there for Eddie, then got interested enough to start the show over properly, having mostly forgotten what I did watch of the show before.
And let me tell you something from the perspective of someone who started with the complete fourth season, who wasn't there from the start, who wasn't tainted by ship goggles or this internal battle of hope and despair, who wasn't theorizing about what the painting could be or expecting Mike and Will to kiss when Volume 2 happened or rooting for Mike and Eleven's relationship to go down in flames or whatever the fuck. Just someone who went blind into Season 4.
It's really fucking obvious that Will and Mike are gonna be endgame.
Like holy fuck. It's so fucking blatant I don't even know why people are nervous.
No sane fucking person would shoot this scene this way if they wanted the audience to care about El and Mike as a couple. Despite being all blurry in the background, Will's reaction to what's happening here is smackdab in the fucking middle, clearly showing that the important part is what's going through his head here. What he's feeling. It's like the opposite of that scene from Kingdom Hearts II where Sora and Riku reunite and Kairi just fucking vanishes into the aether while it's happening because, despite the fact that she was standing between them when the scene began, she doesn't matter to the scene, so she's just kind of gone when the camera angle changes. Will could have been behind one of their heads, or so far in the distance he blends in with the background, but he's not. He's so obvious that despite being massively blurred out, he's still the first goddamn thing you look at. What, you think that's an accident? You think he's in the middle of this dramatic fucking scene because of a mistake? He basically has a big flashing neon arrow pointing at him with "THIS IS THE POINT" being screamed through a megaphone.
And then this?
They're paired up like they're taking fucking prom pictures. Each one of these pairs is so fucking close to one another and so fucking far from everyone else. It's not, "Oh, they're standing vaguely near each other in a group shot," it's fucking Noah's Ark out here. Again, there's no way to take this as an accident. It's not just a framing issue. If they wanted to make the shot look balanced while still not hiding anyone else behind El, they would have scattered people around much more naturally. Even if they wanted to keep Nancy with Jonathan and Hopper with Joyce, there's so much room on that hill for three people to stand on El's left and three on her right. But they didn't do that. They put Mike and Will together on purpose in the most obvious way possible.
Like I get that coming up with crackpot theories is fun in and of itself and I'm not blaming anyone for having fun. I totally get the appeal of arguing a point and reaching for every stupid little thing to pull into it because it's like a game, okay? I've done that. But if you're trying to actually convince someone (whether it's someone who wants to believe or someone who's pissed at the very idea that Mike and Will could be in love), stay away from blue and yellow lights, stay away from costume design, stay away from the existence of closets in backgrounds. And don't worry about whether Mike's gay or bi when he's in love with Will either way. I'll give you a little tip about persuasion: You're only as strong as your weakest argument. Even if you've got strong stuff in there, too, the person you're trying to convince is going to dismiss anything you say as complete insanity the second you start going on an entire tangent about the shape of a character's fucking pocket.
Sometimes, clothes are just clothes. Sometimes, there's a closet in the background because it helps establish that a character is in a bedroom. Sometimes, blue and yellow are just a couple of colors that look nice together. And sure, it might be set designers and costume designers and cinematographers smirking and winking at the audience from behind the camera. But if the show was just those things, instead of those things in the context of everything else, they wouldn't be saying anything of note.
But this?
This tells a story all on its own. Someone with no context can look at this and automatically assume that each paired person is standing with someone they care about deeply, seeking comfort as they watch some sort of disaster unfold. And yeah, romantic couples usually come in twos, and we live in an amatonormative society, so that's going to be the first association anyone makes seeing a bunch of people paired off.
It's the same reason you look at this
And go, "Oh..."
"Those two are probably a couple."
And I genuinely don't understand how people could have watched S4 Vol. 2 and gotten scared. Because as someone who went in with no investment whatsoever, I just looked at these two--
--and went, "Oh, those two are a couple. Good for them." And I moved on. Shut up about the trees for five seconds and just see the forest for what it is.
Oh, and if you're still nervous? Little thing from a storyteller here: You don't leave a hanging thread like "Will confessed his romantic feelings for Mike by projecting them onto El, but Mike either didn't understand or at least didn't say he understood," without coming back to that later. That's Chekov's gun hanging on the wall, babes. It's gonna fire at some point. If Mike was going to reject Will's feelings, if they weren't relevant, they would have had that discussion in Argyle's van. There'd be no reason to leave you in suspense.
#byler#meta#stranger things#theory#I mean I fucking guess#in the same way gravity is a fuckin' theory.#It feels silly that I even have to say this honestly.#Watching people freak out over these two feels like I'm being pranked.#Like you guys aren't pulling a Goncharov are you? Just making believe there's any chance these two aren't gonna be endgame?#Like completely ironically? And I'm too autistic to catch it?#It genuinely feels like I'm explaining that red and blue make purple here. As if you guys should have learned this in kindergarten.#Or like watching whole-ass adults watch Cinderella for the first time and being on the edge of their seat#wondering if she's going to live happily ever after with the prince or not.#It feels like I'm talking DOWN to people and I don't WANT it to feel like that but it's so obvious and I don't want people to be like#anxious for no reason you know?#Like I get that we're all scarred from queerbaiting and I know you guys are biased from years of shipping these kids.#But like. These guys? The most obvious 'there's only one way this could go' couple I've ever seen? You're scared about THEM?
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HYUNJIN | 230527 LIVE
#hwang hyunjin#hyunjin#stray kids#bystay#createskz#staysource#malegroupsnet#a9gifs#*gif#*ccarly#*carly:hyunjin#*hyunjin#u know i had to come thru with these#i'm in my dgaf era. too lazy to even put my watermark on these. don't steal them blah blah blah etc etc#obsessed with how unamused he looked through the majority of this like. the middle gif makes me laugh#he's like “can't believe you freaks keep making me do this”
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the worst father imaginable
#sb and the lab and kid chuuya and N freaking. im so obssessed with it so much#there's so many blanks that can be filled. by ME.#N acts like this charismatic kind parental figure to chuuya but then at the same time he put the kid through unimaginable horrors#because whatever happened to him in the lab was so traumatizing he literally blocked it from his mind!!!!#he's so EVIL. and poor chuuya#it's highly likely chuuya knew N from before the lab. which makes everything - but esp their relationship - 10 times more messed up#regardless this is just more content created as an excuse to use my N design#stormbringer is like the infinite well of inspiration for me right now#bungo stray dogs#bsd#chuuya#professor n#mini murase cameo too. for the believers#stormbringer
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thinking about mobius and how he couldn’t prune the kid, he wanted to save him, he wanted him to just live but the kid died anyway. thinking about how mobius told loki he couldn’t offer him salvation but maybe he could offer him something better; a second chance for the scared little boy shivering in the cold, and it all ended with loki still out there in the cold and alone anyway. there’s just something so deeply tragic about it; how his kindness and heart is pivotal to the story and how it contributes in saving the universe, in saving loki, in saving literally everything but at the same time he ultimately failed to save anyone the way he intended to.
#man…#mobius m mobius#mobius#loki#and a bit of#lokius#kinda#also it makes sense why he is the only character looking so weary and exhausted and heartbroken by the end#he FAILED#they saved the world they saved the multiverses but he failed#he failed loki he failed the kid he failed the countless timelines he helped erase for the sake of saving everyone#when it’s all a LIE#and now he what can he do? who is he with and without everything he was told to believe in#and even his new god is gone too#so who is he?
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happy dragon year to the dragon guy on dragon day!!! 🐉🐉🐉
yippee!! 🎉🐉
#kagarts#champion lance#pokemon gsc#pokemon hgss#pkmn#appreciate a dragon day aka you Will look at lance today#a rare triple dragon moment in time you could call that a triple dragonite bonanza#he's gradually risen to be one of my favorites to draw lately so I wanted to commit to making a piece for him!#deep in my soul i believe he is a silly guy with a biiiiiiiig heart#he's got some scars on his hands (that of which also extends to his body) bc all that kindness is not without effort too#but c'mon he would absolutely be a little silly a little goofy even#the kids would love him And bonus points to teaching them about how cool and friendly dragons are#if you think i'm done drawing him though you can dragon these NUTS#new years resolution to make more backgrounds is a hard one but i'm not giving up so soon on that!!1!1
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#rc9gn#randy cunningham 9th grade ninja#torn pages au#randy cunningham#rc9gn first ninja#first ninja#rc9gn oc#it has begun....the ocs... they are coming!!!!#lol but no worries ill try to not make them too much of a focus#can u believe it? freakin 9 more pages holy sjiet. and we didnt even got to the actual idea i had im gonna cry#trying to be normal and not enjoy little dad things i make first ninja do ;3#like helping kids dress cause waiting for them will take forever. the mom hand across body to protect them and the panic run.#the 'fuck the child took off without me' panic run is very familiar for me because i experience it from both sides#when i was a kid i accidently took off into traffic (on the crossing road but on yellow light) thinking my uncle was ahead#but in reality he was behind having a heart attack at my actions and taking off after me#and when i was a teen a family friend's kid i was looking after in the mall took off somewhere and i had a panic attack i lost him lol#his mother was NOT happy#kids? amiright?
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sojiro is absolutely one of the best characters and he knows it
#faz is literally sustaining me with the unused cutscenes/interactions like I'm not even kidding they're so important to me#sojiro is one of my top 5 favorites in p5r he's so fucking funny and just a great guy. i love him#txt#persona 5 royal#p5r#sojiro sakura#the last note he left was so fucking cute too. not even ''if you make it big'' he said ''WHEN you make it big''. he believes in his kid#and it drives me fucking bananas. it drives me INSANE.#im insane. im craaeezey. insane.asylum. im gonna kill yuo. im gonna kill you. im insa#lavendorii hall of fame
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Doctor Who report! We finished S8 and we loved it, Twelve is great! This season started really strong for us, we loved "Listen" and there were many fun episodes!! sadly the "kill the moon" episode also happened and it was such a mess that we are going to pretend it never did lmao I'd rather talk about what I loved instead and that is Missy!! HELLO?? I always enjoy The Master so this was such a treat!! I love her I hope she comes back next season!! Clara's and Danny's character development on the other hand we didn't enjoy as much and we felt it kind of went downhill since the moon episode but I'm curious to see where Clara's arc is going from here. I love Capaldi so damn much!! Also the 60 anniversary special is coming out tomorrow and we are so excited!! 😭 I need to draw so many things about this show already but things keep getting in the way AAA I have a ton of deadlines, a few events to attend to and a trip on top of it all next week so I'm losing my mind but I will have some art and stuff to share soon I promise!! I hope you are all doing well, I love reading your comments and opinions and I'm very grateful for the messages!!
#DW report#personal#doctor who#I can't believe they regenerated the master into a hot middle aged woman in victorian clothes are you kidding me!! this was for me#I need to cosplay as her I have to make irresponsible financial choices right now I have to support women's wrongs#they should have let them kiss as Ten and John Simm too but I'll take this#their relationship couldn't be any worse it's amazing I love it#and apparently Missy has a whole audio series about her? I have to get my hands on it#also unrelated but does anyone know how to reduce swelling of lymph nodes!! I look very strange and I will have pictures taken soon 😭#I can't get a dr appointment before mid december uueuweu
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she's live
now you can see what everyones height is in my head because i refuse to download height sliders. look at ass <3
#also works on mobile btw ☝️ !!#me successfully making this is proof you can achieve anything with 500 google searches#you should see my search history#html how to put image. html how to change image size. html how to put images in a row. html how to center a row of images. html how to#their pinterest boards are disabled at the moment because i need to make them look good before i share them#and most tags don't work yet because i'm too lazy to go back through my whole blog and tag almost 2 years worth of posts 😭#going to christen it by reblogging one of those dress up your sim prompt ask games#if i can find it#and then i'm going to get completely stuck into rufus and sawyers gameplay yessss i can't wait#leaving virgils gameplay forever i think because when rufus and sawyer have a kid i'm moving him in as the babysitter#would you believe me if i told you there is 0 cc clothes in this#i've fallen in love with maxis clothing recently idk what happened to me#besides roxys boots and virgils bag its a vanilla lookbook#thank you to everyone who voted on the poll yesterday btw#even though it was 50/50 the majority of the time it was up#it ended up 60/40 after an hour tho so i went with my fav macmahon lifestages instead of young adult stages!#goodnight <3
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[ID: a scribbly four panel digital comic of characters from the owl house. The first panel shows Camilla, Luz, and Raine. Camilla stands holding her bat, looking at Raine as they speak to her. Luz watches in the background. The second panel shows Raine posing in front of Eda, Lilith, Darius, Alador, Steve and Hooty. In the first panel Raine says "miss Noceda, I speak for all of us when I say-" and finishes their dialogue in the next panel with "we're proud to welcome to the polycule!".
The third panel is a reaction shot of all the adults reacting to what Raine just said, and the fourth shows Raine blushing and waving their hands, saying "I MEANT REBELLION-", while Camilla blushes and Luz looks dismayed. End ID]
Silly comic idea I had to get out. Sorry for the potential quality, I'd already gotten too far into drawing when I realized the canvas might be a teeny bit too small
#the owl house#toh#raine whispers#camilla noceda#they're the two prominent characters here and everyone else is just a bg scribble so i won't tag everyone else hdbdjfj#anyway would you believe this has been floating in my brain for. months now?? literally since ttt aired and camilla joined the kids#i decided to not do anything for the apocalypse designs of the hagsquad other than ''cool capes'' bc it's just gonna get debunked in-#-a couple or so weeks when promotion for the ep starts so yknow#anyway. camilla is very flattered but she's still not over manny so while it's not a hard no to the witch polycule#it's not a yes#not pictured is the absolute typo in the groupchat moment that happens after this w/ the hagsquad#darius is GETTING THEIR ASS. YOU SAID THAT!! TO HER FACE!!!#eda wants to join in on the bullying but she's too worried abt making a good impression in front of camilla to joke abt it lmao
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i like ghostflower (hell I draw fanarts for them) but I’ve decided I like the version of them in my head more and will just stay away from the fandom in general cuz I’ve seen some discussion and they just make me go “what on earth are y’all on” 💀💀💀💀
#“miles will immediately forgive gwen when he sees she’s gathered a whole team to save him WHAT#he’ll save himself first then befriend Miles G. and Miles G. will start hissing like the cats when that team comes and Miles looks upset#like I firmly believe miles will only talk to Hobie and Margo after all that cuz they r the two that stand by his side thru whole that#like that take is so insane when Hobie is the reason Miles can run away in the first place and Margo risks everything to allow Miles leaving#AND HE KNOWS#u don’t even need a scale to see who Miles will associate with safety and protection more after atsv#also “miles keep getting up after he’s beaten down cuz that what Gwen told him to do in itsv is ALSO insane cuz WHAT#the thing she said when she and others were berating and crowding Miles for not knowing how to be Spider-Man just FEW DAYS after he’s bitten#??????#THAT THING????#not his mom’s words or his uncle’s or idk THAT’S HOW HE IS???#*walk in the tag* *walk out immediately*#u don’t have to make them the only person in each other’s life to prop the ship up especially in this case cuz it makes no sense 😭#actually the first point srl piss me off cuz that team was only possible in the first place cuz of Hobie and Margo and Miles laying#the groundwork by just being a sweetheart he is#charming and inspiring ppl so ofc these kids will rally behind him and team up to save him#ykno LIKE IN THE COMIC TOO???#ppl just have to take the only thing I don’t like in the movie (miles suddenly obsessed over Gwen when they didn’t even interact that much#in itsv) and magnify it x100 in fandom#if she ain’t a gremlin girl that is trying her best to regain Miles’ trust but it’s a slow process and Miles needs space and time first then#I don’t want it
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