The spell was quite successful. So successful in fact that I think my daughter suffered a little backlash as they both fell to the floor laughing wildly.
That is hilarious!
My daughter is 4 now - my son is 2 - and they are home sometimes when we play. My daughter kept asking and kept asking to play, so finally a few mos ago I said ok... she was extremely disappointed to not play with our friends in a "real game", but she settled for a 1:1 with me.
So I decided that the story would be that (since she was big into birthday parties at the time) her "cousin" was having a birthday party and the "bad guy" would steal the birthday cake and she would go and get it back in the style of her favorite show...
I gave her a simple explanation of each role (I gave her the choice of sword fighter, bow fighter, cleric, or wizard), and she decided that she would be the cleric so she could "go out and fight all the bad guys and then come home and heal all the good guys"
She stocked up at the store (I'd drawn out a few rectangles on our game mat for a town) and made friends with the lizardman owner, then went to her cousin's party, but - oh no, the Bad Guy had stolen the birthday cake!
And in true PC fashion, my 4 year old instantly derailed all my plans. "Ok," she said, "I walk over to the bakery and bake my cousin a new cake." Why make it more complicated than it should be LOL.
I wanted to teach her a little combat, so the Bad Guy made an appearance. She did try to hit him with her sword but with a series of bad dice rolls, she missed twice and he hit her once... and she decided she didn't like that and proceeded to back away and throw rocks at him LOL.
So she narrated the rest of the story: he got knocked out and went to jail and then when he woke up in the morning he decided that he didn't want to be bad anymore. And her character, the cousin, and her new bestest friend (the no-longer-bad-guy) went to the store and bought snakes for pets and had another birthday party, since the bad guy missed the first one.
Then it was her turn to tell a story... she carefully arranged all the minis we had out at the time (about 40 of them) and declared they were at a birthday party, and my character was there too. She then picked the biggest mini we have - a huge-sized clay golem - and stomped him across the table. My character shot an arrow at him, and I rolled a 5.
"5 damage." my daughter declared. "He's down!" (He, also, went to jail for one night and then decided to be good. If only life were so simple!)
Unfortunately she now knows what 'playing' means and is no longer content with just goofing off with the minis while we play... (Although Dora and Dragon Tales are still good to distract her!)