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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 5259881" data-attributes="member: 52734">Actually, our 6-yr old is borderline autistic, so he has some trouble with making himself understood at times.  However, listening to him attempting to do an impression of a grizzled veteran dwarf with a bassoon voice makes us all smile.  He was actually the most adamant about playing (once he found out his brother was making a character).  For now, we just mostly point his character in the right direction, give him an either/or choice for actions and let him roll the dice (probably his favorite part).  We do all the calculations for him right now.----There's a couple of things I've learned so far to make this be much more successful than my last couple of attempts:1) Using the character build "fast build" option is a great help.  Rather than hem and haw over making decisions, we just made a few basic choices (races, class, build type) and let the computer build the rest.  Probably the longest part was waiting for the printing to finish (15 minutes per character - what a slow printer)  Works well for the casual game and we can get more into customizing things when we all get more familiar with the game.2) After the goblin fight, I decided to half the hit points for standard+ monsters.  The first fight was against 3 minion goblins and a goblin skirmisher (forget the name).  In the description above, I left out about 3-4 rounds of TombBringer chasing the skirmisher around the board (and a couple of rounds of both sides missing one another).  When TombBringer knocked the goblin to 1 hp, I figured it'd be more fun for it to just give up, rather than drag it out for a few more rounds.  The fight with the skeleton (a level 3 monster) took the party about 3 rounds just to destroy it alone (the archer minions took another round apiece).  It felt neither rushed nor grindy.  Adding a good number of minions seems to keep the fight fun without dragging - the players feel like they're getting somewhere in the fight.  We got in 2 full fights + roleplaying time in less than 2 hours (with a dinner break between the 1st and 2nd half of the session).3) Going for the unusual strategy is sometime more fun than swing/counterswing.  I threw in the goblin making a grab for TombBringer's money on a whim after my eldest rolled a 1 for the attack (and I wanted to give him a chance to do something).  After the fact, I'd almost wished the attempt had succeeded.  I'm sure it would have been memorable watching the minotaur chase the goblin through the woods trying to get his money back...4) Psionics, while mechanically good, suck fluff-wise.  Blasting a skeleton with a mental thrust?  Really?  Perhaps I just need to read up more, but my wife and I both had issues with trying to visualize what was going on with the psionic character.  I guess gamist hit us in the face and my wife and I were uncomfortable with it (the kids didn't care, or seem to notice, at all).5) Not having rules lawyer players from my other group helped a lot.  I was able to relax, make some snap rules decisions and just go with what was fun.  Don't think I could have gotten into the mindset straight from a 3E game; having played a couple of weeks of SW let me tackled it from a "no worries" sort of perspective.That's all I have for now, but hopefully I can regal all some more.  If you have more questions about the game, I'll try to answer what I can.</blockquote>

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