That's his point - you're too young to recognize some of the earliest D&D (not even AD&D) boxes.

Nuh-uh! I'm 40!

Happy Birthday!

Thank you! It warms an old man's heart to have his birthday remembered.

Hey! I gave you the gift of sex tape. I didn't get any thanks.

It appears you didn't.

I had posted something funny about it, but the hotel internet got stupid.

Thawmus, I've been thinking about the D&D and I -really- don't think I'm going to have enough time to do this. My schedule can be really limiting sometimes and it wouldnt' be fair.

Thaw! HB MAN!

I'm hoping to make my character soon, but have the same fears about scheduling. Sometimes I end up having 1-2 hours free, but during those hours, I can never tell if it'll last. It's only in retrospect that I can say I wasn't interrupted.

Ok, S.EX tape, but still it was a gift.

Am I the only one that understood the "It's ok if you can't make it to every session" thing that was said. It's the reason we have more than 2 groups of people making characters, so that it's ok if you aren't there all the time, that is expected.

There's a difference between "not every session" and "1 of 10 sessions."

It's perfectly all right, Stan. I've dealt with this sort of thing before. If I am in your campaign, I'll just suggest that on the nights that you are out, we use your character as the "mine detector." You know, walk into the room, look around, make sure there are no deadly traps or lurking ravenous beasts before the rest of us step inside. I think that you'd be very useful that way.

Exactly.

I'm okay with people not being able to make it all the time, because I halfway expect to have terrible attendance no matter what.

Now, if it's excessive, and you're just not there more than once a month, I'll just give you a companion character to play instead. That makes your character easy to play when you're not there, easier to set aside when you're not there, and easier to have suddenly show up out of nowhere when you are there.

"Hey guys, sorry, got distracted back there. Glad I caught up."

We have some players in our Saturday game who do this. And another player from our Wednesday game was going to have this happen to them, but then their work schedule changed.

That's what Squirrel Girl says...

And Thawmus, it's all good. Though I am very disappointed in you. Give me your geek card.

Because YOU'RE A MAN! YOU'RE 40!