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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barendd Nobeard" data-source="post: 714979" data-attributes="member: 960">My son turns 8 this weekend, and my daughter is 12.  They both play D&D.  I have promised to take them to GenCon at some future time, probably 2004 (before my daughter loses interest and when my son is a little more responsible).My son has had a run of bad luck with his cleric.  He got to 5th level, but then suffered an attack that drained his charisma and another that drained his wisdom (both permanently).  Then he got crushed by a trap and died.  Since this adventure had only 3 PCs, that's quite a problem and they will probably bail out of their task (at least temporarily).  Which is too bad, because it was a redemption quest for my son's fallen paladin (he was playing two characters).The other group (which both my kids play in) is going through Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil right now.  Only four PCs and no cleric.  I expect a TPK eventually, but they're pretty resourceful and (since they are children) I give lots of hints if they appear to be "stuck" on a problem too long.Playing with kids is fun--they can still be scared by goblins.  But it's a lot more work, since the DM has to really be on top of the characters.  For instance, once they get barricaded in a secret room by some orcs.  They had to open the barricaded door, but could not figure out a way to do it.  After 15 minutes, I told my daughter to look at her spell list and check out the "Knock" spell.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />We also played over the Christmas break with my brother.  I ran them through a 3e conversion of "Against the Giants."  We didn't get very far, but we had a lot of fun.[edit - fix typo]</blockquote>

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