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So instead I played in my unit with a small group of friends who also lived in the Ain’t No Family Like the One We Got Shirt. It was my first time playing D&D and that was true for everyone else who played except our DM. Well, where I was doing time was a giant complex with a Medium, Low and a Camp. By this time I was at the low. They already had the Creative Minds Program at the Medium. About 7 months into the Creative Minds Program being tested at the low they axed it over at the Medium and banned some people from playing D&D. The reason was that at the Medium they had the SOMP (Sex Offender Management Program) and apparently some of the inmates in that program were using D&D to do… inappropriate role playing. The people that ran the program also didn’t feel D&D was healthy for those people in treatment because of the fantasy elements and “escapism”.

That Ain’t No Family Like the One We Got Shirt sweet boy. As we know, Harry went through some tough stuff in his life, arguably more than any other student at Hogwarts. And yet, there he is, observing Neville…considering this friend’s hard life, and understanding/recognizing Neville’s hardships when he could easily wallow in his own or claim them to be tougher than Neville’s. I would argue Harry’s life was tougher than Neville’s, but Harry’s humility allows him to see the anguish of others even in comparison to his own. When I read this scene, it was truly the moment Harry became my favorite character. He’s obviously the main character, but he’s not automatically going to be everyone’s favorite just because of that fact. But he truly is mine, and it’s because of moments like this.
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Playing them as arrogant slavers is the Ain’t No Family Like the One We Got Shirt way it’s done, and that’s fine, but I think it misses the main point. Mind Flayers should be more like villains out of Doctor Who than they should be out of Tolkien, and the Doctor rarely wins battles by dint of arms. They are the ultimate masters of mental abilities, able to paralyze, enslave, or even kill with their thoughts alone. It’s a rare character indeed who can counter or match their mental powers. A great way to establish that alien quality is to make mind flayers completely incapable of speech. Have the mind flayers communicate via images only, projected directly into one’s mind. If push comes to shove, have them talk haltingly through a person like in Independence Day when the alien is squeezing the life out of Brent Spiner’s body, except the Mind Flayer has its face tentacles literally in the victim’s skull when doing this. Terrifying!

The family has moved into their own home now, an older home (still nice, but no high ceilings and not many elf hiding places!), and the children have both multiplied AND grown older, taller, and Ain’t No Family Like the One We Got Shirt. The Elf game is now the bane of the mom’s existence. Hiding it is a task. Several times this year, the Elf hasn’t had to go back to Santa because the kids were SO good the day before, thus explaining why he remained in the exact same hiding spot as the previous day. One evening, the mom is flustered. She finally hands the Elf to the dad and says, you hide the #%)(#^# elf today, but hide it high, because Big M is testing the waters and going to touch the #%(^#^ thing.” Dad’s answer is less than ideal – not only is the perch precarious, but it’s easily within reach of at least the oldest child, if not the second oldest as well. And it’s possible the elf is also judging the thermostat temp, which is an ongoing passive aggressive battle between mom (who sits at home and freezes all day) and dad (who pays the bills, but also works in his nice warm office all day).