D&D 5E How my boys play 5e

[mach1.9pants]

Really old school, making do with what they've got. Lego Hero Factory for them (currently a half orc paladin and a dragon born fighter) and McDonald's Despicable Me minions for the bad guys. They generally level from first to teens everyday, with new characters. I think one player takes the role of DM and the other the players (for decision making etc) and they swap continuously throughout their playable. But, man, the pure imagination flows!



EDIT: I just remembered that is the same scarred table I used as a kid to paint my minis and make my models

 

[mach1.9pants]

I also DM too, Phandelver with my better half and (next session) one of their schools teachers who is a friend. But those lucky kids get many more hours of D&D in than I do!

 

[Nebulous]

Level 1st to teens in one day? So as they're playing they just keep adding hit points and new abilities every few...minutes?

 

[Schmoe]

Awesome! Man that brings back memories of free-wheeling days of my youth with unfettered imagination and just doing what seemed cool. I recall Blackrazor in the hands of my character when I was twelve. I got a permanent boost of all the HPs and levels of anything I killed. I think I reached 350th level in two days.

 

[halfling rogue]

This is great. I've been taking my young kids through an adventure and they are loving it. I can't wait until one of them wants to take their turn as the DM!

 

[mach1.9pants]

Level 1st to teens in one day? So as they're playing they just keep adding hit points and new abilities every few...minutes?

per DAY, so hours and hours, but yeah they go up fast. They're playing pretty loose with most rules (9 & 11 yrs)

Awesome! Man that brings back memories of free-wheeling days of my youth with unfettered imagination and just doing what seemed cool. I recall Blackrazor in the hands of my character when I was twelve. I got a permanent boost of all the HPs and levels of anything I killed. I think I reached 350th level in two days.

haha 350th is great!

This is great. I've been taking my young kids through an adventure and they are loving it. I can't wait until one of them wants to take their turn as the DM!

Yeah they're not there yet but soon I'll get to be an actual player!

 

[halfling rogue]

Yeah they're not there yet but soon I'll get to be an actual player!

So funny. This came up not but a few days after this thread.

This weekend we were snowed in so we played two sessions and my 7 year old son brought up being a DM. He's having a birthday soon and wanted a couple friends to come over to play D&D and he went on telling me how he'll be the DM and I can be his assistant. He has no concept that there are rules, or if he does he doesn't care. I told him if he wanted to DM that he needed to be in control of the entire adventure and that he'd need to have a story for the players to play, but also to let them be the ones to control where the story goes.

So that night he's literally nonstop telling me all about his plans for his game. He's going to have them start an adventure in a town called Wall-town (there is a wall surrounding the town of course) and there is a distant castle full of goblins and dragons. Seriously. He figures there are about 1 billion goblins and maybe 100,000 archer warriors that will sneak in the trees. Maybe around a million dragons, but there is also a gold dragon who is good and can kill millions of goblins with one wave of fire breath (which...I guess is good, all things considered)

I can't figure out if they are marching on Wall-town (only 10 houses in the town...) to attack or if the party will travel to the castle to rescue some people.

Either way it'll be interesting...

 

[mach1.9pants]

Haha yeah my kids are a little bit more balanced than a million dragons but still same crazy fun stuff!

 

[I'm A Banana]

Reminds me of Axe Cop. In a good way!

 

[Schmoe]

Haha yeah my kids are a little bit more balanced than a million dragons but still same crazy fun stuff!

Yeah, seriously, a million dragons? That's sooo OP.