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Thanks! I'll give him those examples so he knows what to look for.

My 13 year old son has taken a liking to the idea of being a DM. He wanted to fully run Icespire Peak by himself for me as a solo PC with a sidekick that he controls, so we started late last week and have run a couple of the quests. We ran 2 of the starter quests so far, and these quests would...

Session 0: Everyone must memorize the list of badwrongfun

Xanathar Schmanathar.

This is actually the only one I've read, and I found it to be a little too drawn out for my tastes. It was a decent story, but it felt like a generic fantasy novel to me rather than a D&D book. And to be fair, while I love D&D the game and play it far more, when it comes to lore, I'm the...

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My kids stared playing around that age, and it was pretty easy to wing it with them by starting with the overarching ideas. I think what you have is plenty to get started.

I don't remember my first character death (would have been sometime in the 80s), but I do have a most memorable character death (which I've shared here before). A couple of years ago, I was teaching my now 13 year old son some basics of DMing, and he was running Death House for me as a solo...

I"m not seeing the skull in the skull logo. Edit: Looked at some shirts on the site, and the skull logo looks good on the shirts, but the negative/reverse color version on the dice is still hard to make out.

You too?

For D&D, our last session was probably over a month ago (we have a mix of adults and teens, and with them starting school, we're on a short break). I'm running Reclaiming Blingdenstone. They had already accomplished 3 of the 6 tasks before that session, and this session was mostly role playing...

I don't think I've ever gotten tired of an edition. While I pretty much only play 5E right now, I still like BECMI and 2E (the other editions I've played since the 80s/90s) as much as I ever did.

Keep everyone involved. If a player is taking too long on something outside of combat, if possible, tell them you'll come back to them and let the other players take their turn and/or do things. If it's during combat, tell them to be ready with their action when it comes to their initiative, and...

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While 1E isn't my favorite edition (it's tied between 2E and 5E), I love the line art from the 1E MM. I still love looking at that art.