Gaming with the Family
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Templetroll
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On New Years Eve we have had sessions where the group select monsters to play and then someone runs an adventure for them. One year it was a nice big group that decided to take on an entire city. The illithid was doing great on that part while the rest took on a group of my old PCs from a mountain top lair. They got toasted and the illithid decided discretion was the better part of valor and boogied. The guy playing the behir also decided to leave after going one on one with an iron golem that was inside a circular wall of fire. A vampire escaped because she had set up a couple of coffins nearby in addition to the one in the wagon the other monsters knew of. The lizardman (reincarnated human) cleric came back to the good and ratted out the other vampire, who only had the one coffin.
Another year someone else started our monsters inside a dungeon and we all decided it was time to leave. Guarding the doors were various strong good characters. None of us made it out. Turns out if we had just walked up and asked to be allowed to exit they would have permitted it. Just never even occurred to us to try that!
Another year someone else started our monsters inside a dungeon and we all decided it was time to leave. Guarding the doors were various strong good characters. None of us made it out. Turns out if we had just walked up and asked to be allowed to exit they would have permitted it. Just never even occurred to us to try that!
Gilladian
Adventurer
I played a quick game of microlite 20 with my parents, brother and husband. It was quite fun, but we ended sooner than I wanted because Dad got tired. We meant to take it up again next day and ran out of time.
I've been playing with my family since I first started gaming, almost 30 years ago now...
I've been playing with my family since I first started gaming, almost 30 years ago now...
YES.
I ran Burning Plague from the WotC site for the 2 boys (who have role played 3 or 4 times) and the wife yesterday. They had some real trouble acting like a group (no one had the lead, they didn't know "who" they were...), but they seemed to have fun. My wife is willing to play again, and the oldest, as always, can't wait to play again. My younger son likes to play and wants to play again.
I clearly need to spend some time with my wife about the game, and what her character can and can't do. She spent a lot of time deferring to the boys, which made sense from a parenting perspective, but in game she had some good ideas she didn't push.
We'll certainly play again, though I'm not sure what I'll run next. There are only 3 of them, so I need to throw some healing magic their way. I'm looking at U1, or possibly "of sound Mind" which is an awesome adventure - too bad the followup was never written/released. I may also wait for the next adventure from WotC, or I'm still digging through old Dungeon mags....
I ran Burning Plague from the WotC site for the 2 boys (who have role played 3 or 4 times) and the wife yesterday. They had some real trouble acting like a group (no one had the lead, they didn't know "who" they were...), but they seemed to have fun. My wife is willing to play again, and the oldest, as always, can't wait to play again. My younger son likes to play and wants to play again.
I clearly need to spend some time with my wife about the game, and what her character can and can't do. She spent a lot of time deferring to the boys, which made sense from a parenting perspective, but in game she had some good ideas she didn't push.
We'll certainly play again, though I'm not sure what I'll run next. There are only 3 of them, so I need to throw some healing magic their way. I'm looking at U1, or possibly "of sound Mind" which is an awesome adventure - too bad the followup was never written/released. I may also wait for the next adventure from WotC, or I'm still digging through old Dungeon mags....
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