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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RSKennan" data-source="post: 6385785" data-attributes="member: 8256">Sorry for the delay, this week's been rough.So my wife and son played this weekend. We spent a long time making characters so we didn't have much time to play on Saturday. My wife offered to play again on Sunday. The two characters are Annaka, a Tiefling Barbarian (who will multiclass as a Warlock), she rebelled against bonds, traits, and other roleplaying elements, but I was able to get out of her that she and the other character, Dragos, were childhood friends. She also decided that she was on the run from a church- on her own, so fears regarding that were unfounded. I created a church called "The White Flame" to serve as a main enemy for this campaign. I'm doing my best to pretend that she's playing the character when she does this, but every time an NPC talks, she mocks him or her.  She's really just not into it. She thinks the whole process of roleplaying is ridiculous. My son's character, Dragos the Dragonborn, is a Way of the Elements Monk, and he's really, really into it. He's got a voice for his character and everything. Just a note, my son's 15, but he's got autism, so it's nice to see him get openly passionate about something other than the things he's always been passionate about. He decided that even though his group of Dragonborn are descended from chromatic dragons, they were slaves, and seek out good dragons to serve in order to redeem his people. This told me that they were rare in the setting, and it has become his main quest. The White Flame is involved in their disappearance. The characters had recently had a run-in with the White Flame, and escaped into a lost city. The world was coming out of a dark age, and so cities like this are just lying empty and largely unlooted. They took refuge from the rain in a library, which it turned out had a zombie and the ghost of the head librarian in it. The ghost was/is harmless unless they abuse the books, but the zombie attacked on sight. I don't think they used a single traditional weapon in the fight, starting a fire on some shelving material they had gathered (they didn't harm the books), and trying to wrestle it into the fire. Eventually, Dragos ripped the zombie in half with a creatively described unarmed attack. They didn't grab a hook I laid out with the librarian, but they decided they needed to talk to him when he manifested the next night about something unrelated. I might be able to give it to them again. The next day they decided to loot the city museum. The failed the door's riddle (magic mouth), and the automated system made them pay an entry fee. Annaka doesn't trust the mouth, and we left it up in the air whether they'd be going in.  The adventure went slowly, as they had to discover things like alternating watches while they slept and spent a lot of time talking these things out. I was fine with this, and tried to feed the ambiance and reinforce the spooky tone of the first game. I'd be content to continue the game with just my son, but my wife insists on playing. I suppose this could be good news, in that I have more time to get her to engage. Thanks for all the help everyone.</blockquote>

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