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<blockquote data-quote="LordEntrails" data-source="post: 8660981" data-attributes="member: 6804070">Here's my blunt reply:If you want a complete story, write a book, don't run an RPG. Even for ten year olds, &quot;teach&quot; them to play RPGs with player agency and mutual story telling, not to participate in a movie/story that is a railroad.More nuanced response:Drop the thought of &quot;winning&quot; and &quot;losing&quot;. RPGs are about fun, challenge, and maybe about shared story telling. You have done a great job of building a complex and interesting environment in which to play. Let it play out and see where it goes. You are wanting to do what I did when I first started DMing, tell a story I thought was great. But I have learned that the game is more fun when the story emerges from the interactions of all the participants.Yes they do. The ten year olds will do just fine. Guided by you and their dads, it will be just fine.You may not have the wish to, but you have the ability to do it just fine. And you really will find it more rewarding in the long run. Even if the thought of doing so is uncomfortable. You can do it! We believe in you <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="LordEntrails, post: 8660981, member: 6804070"] Here's my blunt reply: If you want a complete story, write a book, don't run an RPG. Even for ten year olds, "teach" them to play RPGs with player agency and mutual story telling, not to participate in a movie/story that is a railroad. More nuanced response: Drop the thought of "winning" and "losing". RPGs are about fun, challenge, and maybe about shared story telling. You have done a great job of building a complex and interesting environment in which to play. Let it play out and see where it goes. You are wanting to do what I did when I first started DMing, tell a story I thought was great. But I have learned that the game is more fun when the story emerges from the interactions of all the participants. Yes they do. The ten year olds will do just fine. Guided by you and their dads, it will be just fine. You may not have the wish to, but you have the ability to do it just fine. And you really will find it more rewarding in the long run. Even if the thought of doing so is uncomfortable. You can do it! We believe in you :) [/QUOTE]

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