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<blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 5402018" data-attributes="member: 3448">Last Friday was a momentous occasion--my four year old son played his first Dungeons and Dragons adventure.&nbsp; My son played a human ranger named &quot;Deforch&quot; (I'm spelling that phonetically--he named the character, and it sounds like DEAF-orch) who wields two swords, or rather, as he quickly and emphatically informed me, two lightsabers.&nbsp; I had the good sense not to argue with him about lightsabers, so I just statted them up as longswords and moved on.&nbsp; A girl had been kidnapped by skeletons, and Deforch was asked by her family to rescue her.&nbsp; First, he looked for skeleton footprints (I was pleased that he came up with that idea without prompting), and one natural 20 later, he was on his way.&nbsp; Deforch found that the trail led to a dark and dangerous cave, but my son decided Deforch wasn't scared because he had two flashlights in addition to two lightsabers.&nbsp; (I explained that they were magic instead of like the flashlights we have.)&nbsp; Inside the cave, Deforch was attacked by two skeletons, but he won initiative and smashed one to pieces before it even moved.&nbsp; The other clawed him once before he could beat it, and there was a little upsetness about needing to let the monsters take their turns as well, but Deforch prevailed and the unhappiness passed.&nbsp; My son then declared that the skeletons were working for a dragon, at least in part because I had a white dragon mini out, and I figured, what the heck, why not?&nbsp; So he went into the next room, where there was the dragon as well as the kidnapped girl.&nbsp; So Deforch used his daily power to attack the dragon.&nbsp; The dragon breathed ice and cold on him, and hurt him pretty badly, but Deforch persevered and triumphed.&nbsp; I asked if the dragon was going to get away, but my son insisted that Deforch was going to beat all of the skeletons and dragons, so Deforch cut its head off.&nbsp; He returned to the village with the rescued girl and with some treasure and it was the end of the adventure.&nbsp; He then said that next time, he wants to play in an adventure with a nice dragon (about which more in my next post).&nbsp; He also said, &quot;now that I can play Dungeons and Dragons, can we play two adventures each day?&quot;I think we can categorize that as a total win.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cerebral Paladin, post: 5402018, member: 3448"] Last Friday was a momentous occasion--my four year old son played his first Dungeons and Dragons adventure. My son played a human ranger named "Deforch" (I'm spelling that phonetically--he named the character, and it sounds like DEAF-orch) who wields two swords, or rather, as he quickly and emphatically informed me, two lightsabers. I had the good sense not to argue with him about lightsabers, so I just statted them up as longswords and moved on. A girl had been kidnapped by skeletons, and Deforch was asked by her family to rescue her. First, he looked for skeleton footprints (I was pleased that he came up with that idea without prompting), and one natural 20 later, he was on his way. Deforch found that the trail led to a dark and dangerous cave, but my son decided Deforch wasn't scared because he had two flashlights in addition to two lightsabers. (I explained that they were magic instead of like the flashlights we have.) Inside the cave, Deforch was attacked by two skeletons, but he won initiative and smashed one to pieces before it even moved. The other clawed him once before he could beat it, and there was a little upsetness about needing to let the monsters take their turns as well, but Deforch prevailed and the unhappiness passed. My son then declared that the skeletons were working for a dragon, at least in part because I had a white dragon mini out, and I figured, what the heck, why not? So he went into the next room, where there was the dragon as well as the kidnapped girl. So Deforch used his daily power to attack the dragon. The dragon breathed ice and cold on him, and hurt him pretty badly, but Deforch persevered and triumphed. I asked if the dragon was going to get away, but my son insisted that Deforch was going to beat all of the skeletons and dragons, so Deforch cut its head off. He returned to the village with the rescued girl and with some treasure and it was the end of the adventure. He then said that next time, he wants to play in an adventure with a nice dragon (about which more in my next post). He also said, "now that I can play Dungeons and Dragons, can we play two adventures each day?" I think we can categorize that as a total win. [/QUOTE]

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