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I have been listening to the Nerdbound podcast actual play D&D recently and I think they give a great setting/motivation for exploration adventures. The PC's have traveled to a new land and are there to expand the empire, gain wealth, trading, etc. But they need resources, they need local...

I like how you handled that with the 11 y/o. I play with a couple dozen kids as well and feel that you need to listen to what they want, and if somewhat reasonable, find a way to make that part of their character and/or their story. Well done.

Good point, and same here for my 9 year old half-elf ranger. I mean son. Late elementary to middle school aged kids are prime for D&D, at least through my experience. They love video games, Yugi-oh, super hero movies, etc. The step D&D has that others don't is the immersion and kids love it...

Thanks for the replies. I like the idea of a prophetic dream about a major plot point yet to be experienced -- with an exceptionally difficult encounter. I will make the dream horrendous, but give possible clues as to a weakness of the BBEG. We don't use specific gods in my campaigns (I'm...

This is wise and long overdue. I'm not thrilled by the actual .pdf, but that's OK. I DM games with about 20 elementary and middle school students (youngest is 9 years old), and this is much easier than the most simplistic homebrewed game I run. Sometimes I think we underestimate these kids'...

I was listening to icosahedrophilia's actual play 4e D&D podcast (five stars!), and during several of the earlier podcasts, one of the PC's had a recurring dream/nightmare. I believe it was generally meant to help the PC's keep in mind the overall mission and not lose it in the midst of all...

Under what situation and for what reason are they meeting the leader? That might help understand the relationship better and thus what tests might be given.... but I like your idea a lot. My PC's are headed towards their BBEG, but if they fail, they will retreat into a city with a similar...

I run five different D&D 4e campaigns each week with a total of 16 kids, ranging from 3rd to 9th grade. I'm an English as a 2nd Language teacher living/teaching in Asia. My wife and I teach many small classes of between 2~4 students. I started playing D&D with one class once a week around 4...

Yes, understood. But after buying about 20~30 minis usable for PC's on the singles market, I found that I bought *zero* Player's Handbook Heroes minis. Agreed, maybe I didn't buy their earlier original painted versions from the boosters sets either, but there were still many great PC minis in...

I just watched the director's cut two weeks ago and never made that connection. Hilarious.

ABSOLUTELY. I'm a reborn D&D'er, DM'ing after a 20 year layoff. I've bought a couple hundred mostly cheaper mini's this year all by the single on the 2nd hand market. This indirectly helps WotC. For the amount I spent, if I were to have bought the boosters I would've ended up with so little...

I go the route jgsugden uses. I don't follow pre-made maps, and so exact size of a tile if far less important than what the tile would be used for. I also make tons of my own tiles found on the internet (newbiedm.com has a great blog post on how to do this). I've also tried boxes and...

Heathen - Not a dungeon crawl, and a pretty interesting story. A paladin leader leaves to destroy an evil cult. He never returns. You travel in search of him, hoping to save him, only to learn he is now the new cult leader. Plains, villages, forests, rivers, mountains, temples. The PC's...

Solar eclipse occurs, distracting those who fail a saving throw. The sudden distraction and darkness allow those who made a successful saving throw to take one movement and a stealth check if desired.

Hey, those maps blown up to 1" scale are wonderful! Thanks for your work - they will be used.

One adventure I'm running right now involved a similar problem. My PC's set the story where one of the PC's in an elven prince. His father is dying of a magical sickness and many of the people surrounding the King hope to become the next leader. I developed the story to also mean that thees...

I'm creating my first dungeon in over two decades - for my son's game which brought me back into the hobby. Glad to see this topic. In our campaign, a Drow faction and the PC's are both trying to complete a set of five magical coins - the last of which is possessed by an ice dragon (just...

IMO the lack of tension is what makes most skill challenges less exciting. What I often do, which has really made my skill challenges a lot for tense and thus pretty intense, is demand quick actions. I will count down from "5", for example, and if they haven't declared their action and rolled...

I am pretty comfortable speaking for the parents among us that if this was me, and I was not playing D&D anymore, seeing the Red Box would likely result in a sale. I can't tell you how many hours I've spent at the toy store with my son as he searched for a toy to buy. Many Saturdays we would...

YES! This is the best character sheet and I've been wanting to be able to import my CB characters into it for months. Darjr, 300 XP.