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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Uller" data-source="post: 5391510" data-attributes="member: 413">Oh, I'm certain I'm giving neither the monsters nor the PCs the time they need to be played properly (I have always generally been opposed to DMs running PCs that can potentially "steal the show" from the players...but in this case we are just learning so I think it is appropriate)...I purposely chose the two "harder" characters so my son could focus mainly on his own character.My goal is two fold...most of my son's close friends are his hockey team-mates...a great group of kids but all very busy and most probably not the sort to sit down for 2-4 hours playing a table top game (one is into Starwars Legos and another loves to play games like Risk...so you never know)...however now that he's in middle school, his circle of friends is growing beyond hockey.  He has some opportunities for after school clubs and activities outside of sports.  He's really good at math but not so great at reading, writing and expressing ideas...when I was his age, D&D brought me out of that and probably has contributed more to my success in life than school (which is good considering how much gaming distracted me from school....)  He has a great imagination and spends a great deal of his free time "pretending" with Army men, Starwars Legos and minis, etc and even makes up his own games...so my hope is to take that imagination and move it to develop a love of something that encourages reading, exchanging ideas and interacting with others (something other than sports).  If he develops an interest here, his teacher and I have agreed to help him start a D&D group after school.  Or maybe he and I will just run adventures for eachother when we are on the road for hockey (we travel A LOT).Also, my life has become so busy I have very little free time.  I am considering a lunchtime gaming group at lunch...maybe once a week for 1.5 hours in a conference room...That's how I got started into 3e when it first came out...I created a group at work.  I don't work with those folks any more but some of them still play...My hope was that 4e would provide an adventure path for a group of new players that requires very little DM work...just show up and play (pre-read the adventures of course).  I used to spend crazy amounts of time preparing for gaming sessions.  That is just time I don't have right now.</blockquote>

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