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Put Down the Ducky if You Wanna Play the Saxophone (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} chibikaijuu) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} unfunny_fandom, |
I think it depends a lot on the kid, and on the kid's age. I suspect it's pretty different, also, when the game you are running is kids-only any everyone is an age-group peer (and likely a classmate and/or friend).
I haven't played in ages, but I attended my brother's regular game last week (we were going out to something else after and his friend was giving us a ride). I didn't play, but I watched the whole game (which made me desperately want to play again, hah). One of the players is a twelve-year-old boy, who, well, plays like a twelve-year-old boy - at least, how I remember them playing when I was 10-14. His character is annoying and somewhat useless (he's got a bird he never uses, he's a thief but he's absolute crap at subtlety and keeps trying to pull off shit he can't do), he's loud and excitable and, again, keeps trying to do things he can't, echos statements that weren't even all that funny when the first two people said them (he's the pre-puberty version of that nerdy adolescent boy who is just one step behind every social maneuver and trying desperately to feel superior through intellect/perceived gaming badassery, which to be fair is a stage a lot of people I knew/know went through, and can be gotten over). I was sitting literally about as far away from him as anybody at the table could get, and I still kept wincing and mentally repeating "he's twelve, he's twelve, he's twelve". According to my brother, his dad, who was sitting next to me and seemed like a pretty awesome guy, and like the rest of the group was a good, balanced player, doesn't always come, and when he's not there, the kid is worse. (Turns out, oddly enough, that I know his wife, who showed up to drop off their daughter, and she's also a pretty cool person, so I have hope that kiddo will outgrow it. The daughter, by the way, is five or six and also plays, and started talking about how her character could totally have helped in the encounter and wondering why they didn't have a proper ranged character (a reasonable question - even their Ranger doesn't actually have any good ranged attacks - she's a Two-Blade Ranger). She was adorable, but she's also just graduated from kindergarten, so a little bragging is kind of cute rather than annoying.)
I haven't played in ages, but I attended my brother's regular game last week (we were going out to something else after and his friend was giving us a ride). I didn't play, but I watched the whole game (which made me desperately want to play again, hah). One of the players is a twelve-year-old boy, who, well, plays like a twelve-year-old boy - at least, how I remember them playing when I was 10-14. His character is annoying and somewhat useless (he's got a bird he never uses, he's a thief but he's absolute crap at subtlety and keeps trying to pull off shit he can't do), he's loud and excitable and, again, keeps trying to do things he can't, echos statements that weren't even all that funny when the first two people said them (he's the pre-puberty version of that nerdy adolescent boy who is just one step behind every social maneuver and trying desperately to feel superior through intellect/perceived gaming badassery, which to be fair is a stage a lot of people I knew/know went through, and can be gotten over). I was sitting literally about as far away from him as anybody at the table could get, and I still kept wincing and mentally repeating "he's twelve, he's twelve, he's twelve". According to my brother, his dad, who was sitting next to me and seemed like a pretty awesome guy, and like the rest of the group was a good, balanced player, doesn't always come, and when he's not there, the kid is worse. (Turns out, oddly enough, that I know his wife, who showed up to drop off their daughter, and she's also a pretty cool person, so I have hope that kiddo will outgrow it. The daughter, by the way, is five or six and also plays, and started talking about how her character could totally have helped in the encounter and wondering why they didn't have a proper ranged character (a reasonable question - even their Ranger doesn't actually have any good ranged attacks - she's a Two-Blade Ranger). She was adorable, but she's also just graduated from kindergarten, so a little bragging is kind of cute rather than annoying.)
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