Brightening a Fragile Word.

onijet01
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Brightening a Fragile Word. Aug 28, 2018 13:42:35 GMT via mobile

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Post by onijet01 on Aug 28, 2018 13:42:35 GMT

Okay so I lack a lot of social media pages, facebook, twitter things of that nature. Yet I've been thinking about something lately.

In the United States we have a charitable organization named : Childrens Merical Network. The organization helps children ranging from infants and up.

My place of employment is currently fund raising nstion wide for this charity and it sparked an idea i wanted to bring to the community.

When i person (this case a child) ends up in s hospital due to illness or any reason for a long time, it gets quite lonely and depressing. Regardless of country, cultures or ethnic background, I was wondering what we as a community could do.

Then it hit me as I sorted my collection. Could we bring the love of Warmachine and Hordes to the children?

The amount of things offered to make a childs day bright is staggering. Ranging from reading the books (editing whats needed at some parts) to offering crafting days for the older kids. Assembling battle boxes, extra models, painting, and even teaching the game to the next generation.

It seems daunting, yet I thought I'd place this here, if you think this idea has merit, post it to other medea then maybe we can get privateer press in and give hope to those in darker days.

Discuss your ideas weather for or against this im curious how the community feels

gargs454
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Brightening a Fragile Word. Aug 28, 2018 15:18:44 GMT

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Post by gargs454 on Aug 28, 2018 15:18:44 GMT

First off: I'm always in favoring of helping people out, especially children.

Second: From a theory standpoint, yeah something could be done. The main problem you'll run into though will be space. I imagine hospitals specializing in children's care may have some extra sized areas for recreation, but most regular hospitals are going to struggle to find space for you to put on a demonstration. Sure, the books would be easy enough. And some patients would be able to get involved in the crafting side of it, but others might be limited medically -- especially if bed-ridden.

So, I would think that the main emphasis should be on providing the books and presumably artwork to the kids -- which by the way, already built models would certainly fit that bill. From a book standpoint though, much as I hate to admit it, WH is likely in a better place to do something like this thanks to their much larger and accessible collection of novels. That doesn't mean that PP and the rest of the WMH community cannot try though!

ForEver_Blight
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Brightening a Fragile Word. Aug 28, 2018 18:07:06 GMT

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Post by ForEver_Blight on Aug 28, 2018 18:07:06 GMT

Donating time and effort to local medical causes is never a bad thing. But I don't believe the premise should be wargaming. There is a large money barrier to get into the game. Getting a medically compromised child into an expensive hobby that the parent want them to enjoy might not work into their budget. Space, as stated above, and the fact that; where is the child/group going to keep the models, tokens, painting material etc. Lastly; it's still a WARgame. Beating people up is still the basis of the game. I know, violent video games don't correlate to violent kids/adults. But Lets not add the ideology of "apply axe to face" in a childrens' sick ward.

Lastly, someone has to loose. It's not a game that can easily just be played lightly and have people win randomly like cow yahtzee or something.

That all however is just my perspective. I fully support the idea of getting the nerd community to go spend time with kids in need. But I would keep the games much, much, simpler. Uno, checkers, monopoly. Standardized stuff. No settlers of Catan or Risk. Unless by request.

Feb 8, 2018 7:00:34 GMT oncomingstorm said:

Me too. I'm torn between being very hopeful that we'll see a substantial number of the buffs we need, and concerned that we'll get the Legion treatment, and have a substantial number of our needy living beasts left out in the cold.

Need I say more?

gobber
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Brightening a Fragile Word. Aug 28, 2018 18:36:10 GMT

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Post by gobber on Aug 28, 2018 18:36:10 GMT

If you were to give this a try, I'd highly recommend going with X-wing instead. Prepainted models, you only need a few of them, smaller board, simpler rules, and many kids love star wars toys anyway. There's a great co-op campaign for it as well.

Go post your conversions!