And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Exactly. I think we actually “started” just by giving them coloring pages of cartoony fantasy creatures and characters and then making up stories about goblins and dragons on our morning walks, which in turn got them excited about their characters and miniatures and rolling dice

You can start when they’re as little as 4 and have decent results. I started with mine when they were 5 and 3 with Hero Kids and by the time they hit 6 and 8, they’d graduated to Pathfinder 2 (edit: albeit with a great deal of help/handholding)

10/10, would indoctrinate children with gateway drugs games again

I’ve only ever heard it used in pulpy adventure stories/comics like Howard’s Conan world (some of which do admittedly have some if that implicit racism common to fiction from that time). Has it become more explicitly neo-Nazi?

Still a beginner, so I’m also a little hazy on the rules for some of the other hand-specific jokers. Does a straight flush count as a straight and a flush when it comes to triggering jokers? Does a full house trigger pair and three-of-a-kind jokers?

I can’t count the number of times I’ve tried to play a double double run in this game. It’s worth more than a two-pair, Goddamnit!

Y’all got any more of them x3 jokers?

There’s always a relevant xkcd

God, I spent so much time I didn’t have playing KSP.

On the plus side, I did learn the basics of rocket science, so it wasn’t a total waste of time…

My God, is there nowhere I can be safe from being reminded that my beloved SFG are utter trash this year?

DID YOU SAY HEALTHCARE??? I DON’T NEED PRIVATIZED HEALTHCARE!!! WHEN YOU LIVE FOR THE PACK, THE PACK LIVES FOR YOU!!!

THAT’S WHY ALL MY MALE, FEMALE, AND NON-BINARY BROTHERS KNOW THAT “FROM EACH ACCORDING TO HIS ABILITY, TO EACH ACCORDING TO HIS NEEDS” IS THE WAY TO GO!!

AROOOO!!! SOCIALIZED HEALTHCARE FOR ALL, BROTHER!!

SPEAK UP, FRIEND! I CAN’T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF MY HOG BEING CRANKED TO ELEVEN!!!

I’m not IT, just a college instructor, but you’d be amazed at how many Gen Z students have told me that they can’t log into their email because they don’t know their own password. Not even forgot; they don’t even know it in the first place because every device remembers everything for them.

Yeah, I know. It would probably take some help from the DM to homebrew a patron that has cleric-flavored cantrips, and even then it would likely only work for a few sessions at low levels, but I still like the idea

I’ve always loved the idea of playing a warlock that presents themselves to the party as a cleric (and then seeing how long it takes people to catch on, both in and out of character)

Nothing like driving the “cleric” deeper into debt to their patron for a little more healing and then getting the whole party committed to some insane quest at the demand of the patron.