A seven-year-old plays KotS

[MerricB]

Counts as child abuse.

"It's THAC0 time!"
"No, daddy, not again!"

Dialing 911, -- N

Thankfully, THAC0 isn't in oD&D (1974). oD&D is a a free-wheeling game which has just enough rules so the DM can resolve combat, but leaves lots of other stuff to the imagination of the players and DM. Sure, it isn't for everyone, but I had fun running it recently. Unfortunately, most of my players like hard and fast rules, so on to 4e! (Luckily, I can run both rules-light and rules-heavy games and enjoy them).

The "to hit" numbers on oD&D are table-based - crossreference AC and PC level.

Cheers!

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

That was 100% adorable and awesome.

Thanks, -- N

I second this!

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

This is some of the best AP I've read in a while.

http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=6630&page=1#Item_0

Good story!

I think we might sometimes underestimate or forget the abilities of kids to understand new concepts.

 

[Cirex]

"No. I need to know now. It could be a monster village, daddy. You. Never. Know."

Wow...

He's a great player at 7. I wonder if at 9 he can start DMing. I would be interested in playing!

 

[Mark Hope]

Very sweet story! Never underestimate the thrill power of setting things on fire

I ran Hollow's Last Hope for my two kids this weekend (aged 6 and 10) and although it wasn't their first game, I was still impressed by the way that they got their teeth into the plot. The module involves finding a cure for a mysterious plague that has hit a local town. As soon as they realised it was a lumber town, the kids were full of suspicions that someone ("the bad people") had put poison into the trees and when the lumberjacks cut them down, the disease had been unleashed on the populace. Cool idea, I thought. Have to use that.

My boy plays a ranger called Aragorn (I said he could choose another name if he liked, but he said "no, I want to call him Aragorn because I want it to be him") and my daughter plays a silver dragon wyrmling called Pink Strawberry (she mimes every action that her dragon takes with all the enthusiasm you'd expect from a 6 year-old ballerina-in-training )

Anyway, nothing quite like gaming with the kids. My boy wants to DM next ("without any help from you, because then you'd know what was going on the adventure!") Can't wait!

 

[Invisible Stalker]

This is some of the best AP I've read in a while.

http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=6630&page=1#Item_0

Awesome. That reminds me why I started playing this stuff thirty years ago. Alas I have no Legos, I'll have to use my Star Wars and GI JOE action figures.

 

[mattdm]

Awesome. That reminds me why I started playing this stuff thirty years ago. Alas I have no Legos, I'll have to use my Star Wars and GI JOE action figures.

Convert to the dark bright, primary-colored side! Here's your source for minis from now on.

 

[That One Guy]

I had to send someone this story, so I sent it to a PC in my pre-4e game. His response, "I want this kid to be my kid. Like, right now. He is cooler than like 95% of people my own age."

A very excellent story that made me laugh and grin.