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D&D Library Tales Continued:
For this one, 1986, Brookbanks Library, North York, Ontario. Running an afternoon D&D mini-campaign (13 4-hour weekly sessions long). So I provided pregens and set them in Cormyr, where the PCs’ company…— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2019
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…charter (as the Company of the Raven or the Company of the Talon or whatever) came with a “do this task for the Crown,” which would start the PCs in a mini-dungeon and bring them into contact with all sorts of followup adventure hooks. A few sessions in, I started getting visiting observers: library higherups, concerned local clergy, and concerned parents. The clergy and the librarians had the brains to sit silent and watch and listen, and as a result one of the…— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2019
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…reverends wanted to join: they saw and loved the building fellowship/teamwork, the practise at handling (imaginary) relationships, the problem-solving, and so on. Some of the parents were baffled, and one (a Type A… 5)
…push-push-mow-down-all-opposition businessman) got angry, and demanded to know, “But how do you WIN this game? There has to be one winner and all the rest losers, or what’s the point? That’s how life works, damn it!”— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2019
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Oh, dear. Maybe your life, but the rest of us get to “win” tiny little passing things, at best. We don’t play life for points.
Apparently the dad later, at home, forbade his son to keep coming. “It’s pointless. They’re wasting your time.” 7)
But the son ‘beat’ him by saying, “Oh, like when you waste your time GOING BOWLING?”
(And because the bowling sessions were actually the dad slipping away to see a mistress, and they both knew it, the dad backed down. A "win." Sigh.)
[end]— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2019