People adore this man’s story about his late grandmother’s love for Dungeons & Dragons
This man’s story about his late grandmother went viral after he told about how, in the last year of her life, he introduced her to Dungeons & Dragons.
And she really, really liked it.
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My grandmother passed away. Her funerals were today, but here I'd like to talk about the most important thing I couldn't spend too much time on in her eulogy: her love for Dungeons & Dragons. #DnD
— Antoine H. (@AntnHz) August 23, 2019
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She started very late, at 75, only a little over a year ago. One day I simply asked her if she’d like to try, and, like always when presented with something new, she said “Of course!”. So we grabbed my PHB and built up a character together.
— Antoine H. (@AntnHz) 23 August 2019
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My grandmother chose to be a forest gnome because they seemed the most happy of the races and she really liked the fact that she could talk to small animals. She went with druid just to double down on the animal-friendship theme.
— Antoine H. (@AntnHz) 23 August 2019
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(Also when we went through the character traits, I asked her: “Do you want to be a boy or a girl?”, and she answered right away “I’ve been a girl my whole life, it’d be fun to try being a boy for once”.)
— Antoine H. (@AntnHz) 23 August 2019
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So, we’re making her character sheet, rolling her stats (she gets a 17 and puts it in WIS) and chosing her first spells, and I ask her if she has a name in mind. “I don’t know, I’ll find one by tomorrow”.
— Antoine H. (@AntnHz) 23 August 2019
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That night, she does something that even I never expected: she goes on the Internet and reads every piece of lore she can find about gnomes. She barely knew how to Google, and yet here she was, browsing Wikipedia articles and D&D fansites.
— Antoine H. (@AntnHz) 23 August 2019
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The next day, right before we play for the first time, she reveals her name to the party: Terminatur. Oh, and she’d also drawn him. pic.twitter.com/yTxLrlNDNk
— Antoine H. (@AntnHz) 23 August 2019
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Thing is, she didn’t know about the Terminator (although she probably heard the name somewhere and it came back subconsciously). She doesn’t speak English, so she has no idea about the connotation.
— Antoine H. (@AntnHz) 23 August 2019
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She made up the name from “termite”, because she liked the idea of gnomes living in burrows, and “nature”, because she was a druid. Both words are the same in French. And she dropped the final “e” because, I kid you not, “it’s cooler”.
— Antoine H. (@AntnHz) 23 August 2019
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So we start playing. It’s a new campaign starting at 1st level, and I decided to approach it like a series of one-shots, so that players could come and go without having to bend the story when a character’s absent. Essentially, they’re adventurers sent on missions by their guild.
— Antoine H. (@AntnHz) 23 August 2019
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The party is made up of a Kalashtar sorcerer, a half-elf ranger, and our little gnome druid, who never goes anywhere without his goose friend. They chose to undertake the cleansing of a reportedly haunted house. And that’s when I knew my grandmother would fall in love with RPGs.
— Antoine H. (@AntnHz) 23 August 2019
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They explore the house a bit, and in the night, get attacked by the kitchen table, who turned out to be a mimic. My grandmother’s genuinely scared by the (light) horror movie vibes, but she’s smiling through it all.
— Antoine H. (@AntnHz) 23 August 2019
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My grandmother lives it. So much so that sometimes she has to close her eyes to calm herself down. Now, I’m not a particularly good nor experienced DM, but she made me feel like I was @ChrisPerkinsDnD or @matthewmercer .
— Antoine H. (@AntnHz) 23 August 2019
