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<blockquote data-quote="Bill Zebub" data-source="post: 8729660" data-attributes="member: 7031982"><p>I'm currently playing (mostly) with two groups:</p><p>1) A group of experienced adults, including some long-term veterans</p><p>2) A new group consisting of four 9-10 year olds (plus occasionally a 5 year old who plays the wolf sidekick) who only started playing this summer.</p><p></p><p>The first group really struggles to shed old ways of playing. Two members in particular frequently either announce they are "making a History check" (or whatever the relevant skill is) or ask if they can make such a check. It drives me crazy.</p><p></p><p>The kids don't have any baggage. They never talk about making checks, they just tell me what they are doing, and sometimes I ask for a check. It's freaking awesome. I love playing with them.</p><p></p><p>[ISPOILER]Today in Lost Mine of Phandelver the Nothic ambushed them from behind as they got into a fight with some ruffians. When the rogue got the killing blow on the Nothic and gleefully described stabbing it in its enormous single eye, I narrated how green "eye juice" squirted all over his arm, and also got all over the wolf. The 5 year old playing the wolf, on his turn, decided to jump into the cistern to wash the eye juice off, even though the fight wasn't over. Well <em>right there in the text</em> it says the treasure in the cistern isn't visible from above, but is immediately apparent if they go into the water. The wolf emerged from the water and told the warlock, who had taken <em>beast speech</em> as an invocation specifically to be able to talk to the wolf. I can't imagine any of this happening with the jaded veterans. So much fun.[/ISPOILER]</p><p></p><p>So I think [USER=7026617]@Thomas Shey[/USER] is right to some extent. The solution is to stop playing with baggage-laden veterans. Find some kids and teach them to play.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bill Zebub, post: 8729660, member: 7031982"] I'm currently playing (mostly) with two groups: 1) A group of experienced adults, including some long-term veterans 2) A new group consisting of four 9-10 year olds (plus occasionally a 5 year old who plays the wolf sidekick) who only started playing this summer. The first group really struggles to shed old ways of playing. Two members in particular frequently either announce they are "making a History check" (or whatever the relevant skill is) or ask if they can make such a check. It drives me crazy. The kids don't have any baggage. They never talk about making checks, they just tell me what they are doing, and sometimes I ask for a check. It's freaking awesome. I love playing with them. [ISPOILER]Today in Lost Mine of Phandelver the Nothic ambushed them from behind as they got into a fight with some ruffians. When the rogue got the killing blow on the Nothic and gleefully described stabbing it in its enormous single eye, I narrated how green "eye juice" squirted all over his arm, and also got all over the wolf. The 5 year old playing the wolf, on his turn, decided to jump into the cistern to wash the eye juice off, even though the fight wasn't over. Well [I]right there in the text[/I] it says the treasure in the cistern isn't visible from above, but is immediately apparent if they go into the water. The wolf emerged from the water and told the warlock, who had taken [I]beast speech[/I] as an invocation specifically to be able to talk to the wolf. I can't imagine any of this happening with the jaded veterans. So much fun.[/ISPOILER] So I think [USER=7026617]@Thomas Shey[/USER] is right to some extent. The solution is to stop playing with baggage-laden veterans. Find some kids and teach them to play. [/QUOTE]
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