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> Honestly, it was a great way to keep kids off the streets. You were motivated to sit around for hours, doing something harmless while being very social. For
by Fjolsvith 11y ago
> Honestly, it was a great way to keep kids off the streets. You were motivated to sit around for hours, doing something harmless while being very social. For many introverted kids, it was a godsend.
In prison, I DM'ed 4 game groups a week. All the introverted guys flocked to the games, and I watched them develop social skills over the years. They had to learn to interact with each other, share, work together, and express themselves if they were to be part of my games.
- Balgair 11y agoPrison DM'ing!?! Now those are some stories I would love to hear! Have you written them down at all? If so, where can we find them? Also, if you are not familiar with the larger DnD online community, this link may be a good place to start: https://www.reddit.com/r/dndgreentext/wiki/hof https://www.reddit.com/r/dndgreentext/wiki/hof https://www.reddit.com/r/DnDGreentext/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DnDGreentext/
- Fjolsvith 11y agoI never have written anything about them. Playing DND in prison was a coping mechanism I used to make up for the lack of video games (which I loved to play and code).
- Balgair 11y agoI would love to hear those stories. I think a lot of other players would as well. We all can learn the most from the 'edge cases' of our community, the constraints you had and the resources available. Necessity is the mother of invention, after all. I think prison DMing would be such an extreme and you may have had to invent things others never would have thought to do. I would love to know what it was like, your challenges as DM that are not 'normal', your players and their psyches, the story you ran, etc.