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I just GMed my 3 year old for the first time!
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<blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 1831996" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>Well, after a rather slow week adventure-wise (thanks to me having a nasty cold), we revved things back up yesterday. Our latest adventure included:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A missing dragon egg</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A friendly monster wizard</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Magic item creation</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A less friendly monster who demanded payment for his help</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A talking skeleton</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Diamonds, both big and small</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A friendly, talking frog</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A friendly, talking parrot</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Two very unfriendly giant rats</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A magical chest full of eggs</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">COMBAT!</li> </ul><p></p><p>I learned a few more things about the inner workings of the mind of the average 3 year old adventuress this outing.</p><p></p><p>First, she is an awesome roleplayer and puzzle solver. She always looks at and talks to the NPC in question rather than at daddy who is doing the voices. And she asks questions without being prompted, "Where can I find your egg?" "Where does the Wizard-Monster live?" and such. She is pretty good at deduction without too much prompting and, for example, when she was told that the "Bird has the big diamond ring", she figured out that our birdhouse would be a good place to look for him.</p><p></p><p>But I've discovered that linnear adventures are still the way to go now. She started to get confused when I left the order of events open for her to decide. She was always focused on what was supposed to be her "next" destination rather than being able to leave a thread and return to it later. So I think I'll try to stick to a more straightforward adventure format for a while longer.</p><p></p><p>And I've also found that she LOVES "combat". This was easily her favorite part of the adventure and she was very much into the spirit of it.</p><p></p><p>She had to enter a dungeon (our basement) and liberate a chest full of stolen eggs that the Egg Rats had taken. She was told in advance that each rat had a weakness: One was very "sneezy" and the other was afraid of music. Therefore she had obtained a small bottle of "sneezing powder" (glitter) and a whistle before entering the dungeon.</p><p></p><p>I grabbed one of the rats (these are stuffed critters about as big a a pillow) and began coming toward her in a menacing manner with it. I've seldom seen her scramble so fast as she doffed her backpack and pulled out her sneezing powder. With the first rat incapacitated by sneezing, the other began to close on her ("Rowr! Rowr!") and, in a blind panic, she dumped the entire contents of the backpack on the floor to find her whistle. She literally dove onto the floor to recover the whistle and blew it loudly, scaring away the other rat.</p><p></p><p>Then, apparently wishing to take no chances and also apparently having a bit of a sadistic streak, she doused the first rat with at least three more doses of sneezing powder ("WA-choo! WA-choo!"), giggling uncontrollably the whole time. It was only then that she set about recovering the eggs and returning them to their rightful owners.</p><p></p><p>What I hadn't expected was how magnanimous she would be in victory. She specifically returned the eggs belonging to the Dragon and Parrot respectively. But then she said she would give all the others back to the Egg Rats "so they would have something to eat for breakfast."</p><p></p><p>What do you call that? Chaotic Neutral? I suppose I should have expected nothing else from The Human Id. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> Regardless, she said that making the rat sneeze was her favorite part of the adventure and fell into giggling again when retelling that part to Mommy.</p><p></p><p>I think I'm going to hold off for now on my "campaign" idea. That requires a bit more forethought than I want to invest right now and I'm learning that I can whip one of these together in 10-15 minutes. But I do think I'll add in a couple recurring characters so she'll be able to start relying upon them as touchstones.</p><p></p><p>I'll let you now how it goes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rel, post: 1831996, member: 99"] Well, after a rather slow week adventure-wise (thanks to me having a nasty cold), we revved things back up yesterday. Our latest adventure included: [list] [*]A missing dragon egg [*]A friendly monster wizard [*]Magic item creation [*]A less friendly monster who demanded payment for his help [*]A talking skeleton [*]Diamonds, both big and small [*]A friendly, talking frog [*]A friendly, talking parrot [*]Two very unfriendly giant rats [*]A magical chest full of eggs [*]COMBAT! [/list] I learned a few more things about the inner workings of the mind of the average 3 year old adventuress this outing. First, she is an awesome roleplayer and puzzle solver. She always looks at and talks to the NPC in question rather than at daddy who is doing the voices. And she asks questions without being prompted, "Where can I find your egg?" "Where does the Wizard-Monster live?" and such. She is pretty good at deduction without too much prompting and, for example, when she was told that the "Bird has the big diamond ring", she figured out that our birdhouse would be a good place to look for him. But I've discovered that linnear adventures are still the way to go now. She started to get confused when I left the order of events open for her to decide. She was always focused on what was supposed to be her "next" destination rather than being able to leave a thread and return to it later. So I think I'll try to stick to a more straightforward adventure format for a while longer. And I've also found that she LOVES "combat". This was easily her favorite part of the adventure and she was very much into the spirit of it. She had to enter a dungeon (our basement) and liberate a chest full of stolen eggs that the Egg Rats had taken. She was told in advance that each rat had a weakness: One was very "sneezy" and the other was afraid of music. Therefore she had obtained a small bottle of "sneezing powder" (glitter) and a whistle before entering the dungeon. I grabbed one of the rats (these are stuffed critters about as big a a pillow) and began coming toward her in a menacing manner with it. I've seldom seen her scramble so fast as she doffed her backpack and pulled out her sneezing powder. With the first rat incapacitated by sneezing, the other began to close on her ("Rowr! Rowr!") and, in a blind panic, she dumped the entire contents of the backpack on the floor to find her whistle. She literally dove onto the floor to recover the whistle and blew it loudly, scaring away the other rat. Then, apparently wishing to take no chances and also apparently having a bit of a sadistic streak, she doused the first rat with at least three more doses of sneezing powder ("WA-choo! WA-choo!"), giggling uncontrollably the whole time. It was only then that she set about recovering the eggs and returning them to their rightful owners. What I hadn't expected was how magnanimous she would be in victory. She specifically returned the eggs belonging to the Dragon and Parrot respectively. But then she said she would give all the others back to the Egg Rats "so they would have something to eat for breakfast." What do you call that? Chaotic Neutral? I suppose I should have expected nothing else from The Human Id. ;) Regardless, she said that making the rat sneeze was her favorite part of the adventure and fell into giggling again when retelling that part to Mommy. I think I'm going to hold off for now on my "campaign" idea. That requires a bit more forethought than I want to invest right now and I'm learning that I can whip one of these together in 10-15 minutes. But I do think I'll add in a couple recurring characters so she'll be able to start relying upon them as touchstones. I'll let you now how it goes. [/QUOTE]
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