What's the most On Brand™️ story you have from your early childhood.
Mine is when my mom told me not to touch the electric stove when it was red, because that meant it was hot, so I made direct eye contact with her and slapped my hand down on the stove top.
— mu✨ (@prinxeMu) July 8, 2018
After spending a few hours searching all over our house, I finally broke down and asked my dad where we kept our twenty sided dice. He had no idea what I was talking about. The perils of getting a second hand Basic D&D rulebook and no dice. https://t.co/LsApBJDVdA
— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) July 8, 2018
Another similar tale – During story hour at the library, the librarian asked if anyone knew what I troll was. I proudly rattled off its D&D stats and probably confirmed to her that I drank paint thinner when no one was looking.
— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) July 8, 2018
In 6th grade, we moved to a new school district. I was the quiet new kid w/ glasses & his sketch book. I kept getting teased/bullied by one kid, & while it hurt, I always responded w/ a smile & an invitation to draw him something.
Eventually he agreed & we became good friends. Mind you, not all bullies could be won this way, and not all attempts like this worked in my favor, but this was one of the ones that worked out. 🙂
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) July 9, 2018
Didn’t you harbor any anger towards him? Of course! It’s hard not to, but I felt either I could let the anger define me, or hope that behind that power play was someone else who also didn’t know how to make a friend. It was a coin flip, and that was one I called well. 🙂
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) July 9, 2018
Haha, cute. Yeah I remember that being a dorky kid with a sketchbook sometimes had its perks… I used to make a couple bucks here and there drawing stuff for other kids… most wanted drawings were Garfield, WWF wrestlers, and Tiny Toons characters, lol. Hells yeah! I made a lot of my early Magic: The Gathering money doing that.
…to be honest, in the days JUST before the internet, I made quite a lot of money drawing naked cartoon and comic girls for friends. https://t.co/m8SwQiCbr1
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) July 9, 2018