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<blockquote data-quote="Dave Blewer" data-source="post: 535528" data-attributes="member: 4972"><p>My soon to be 5 year old son is expressing great interest in playing D&D at the moment - My 7 year old daughter is not so keen, but shows some interest.</p><p></p><p>I am thinking of putting together a small fairy tale based scenario in the new year where they can investigate why all the garden trolls have become litter trolls in the area (a silly story I have been making up for them in the evenings).</p><p></p><p>I will definately streamline the rules maybe reducing skills to a simple d20 roll against a DC with bonuses awarded depending on if they work as a team or attempt to describe what they do.</p><p></p><p>Character classes I will keep simple I think my daughter would enjoy having some magical powers (she has a fairy fixation) and my son is a Barbarian in real life <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p>Provide plenty of magical healing! Dying is not fun</p><p></p><p>The CP angle: </p><p></p><p>I have CP and also have trouble walking and rubbish balance. I started playing when I was 11 and never wanted to play in a game (at that age) where combat was de-emphasised. Combat in D&D is abstract and superb fun. Trying to put myself in the the head of a six year old for a second... I guess that it is those superb evocative pictures in the MM that are the reason he wants to play. He wants to kill a dragon!</p><p></p><p>Although I was older, one of the things that I really loved about D&D in my youth is that is was one of the few past times where I was as good (if not better) than my fellows at playing. D&D is escapism pure and simple leave the moral life lessons to the WoD games <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p>All this is from my (probably ignorant) point of view and experience, of course the situation with your son might be a totally different to mine, but I hope it has helped.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave Blewer, post: 535528, member: 4972"] My soon to be 5 year old son is expressing great interest in playing D&D at the moment - My 7 year old daughter is not so keen, but shows some interest. I am thinking of putting together a small fairy tale based scenario in the new year where they can investigate why all the garden trolls have become litter trolls in the area (a silly story I have been making up for them in the evenings). I will definately streamline the rules maybe reducing skills to a simple d20 roll against a DC with bonuses awarded depending on if they work as a team or attempt to describe what they do. Character classes I will keep simple I think my daughter would enjoy having some magical powers (she has a fairy fixation) and my son is a Barbarian in real life :D Provide plenty of magical healing! Dying is not fun The CP angle: I have CP and also have trouble walking and rubbish balance. I started playing when I was 11 and never wanted to play in a game (at that age) where combat was de-emphasised. Combat in D&D is abstract and superb fun. Trying to put myself in the the head of a six year old for a second... I guess that it is those superb evocative pictures in the MM that are the reason he wants to play. He wants to kill a dragon! Although I was older, one of the things that I really loved about D&D in my youth is that is was one of the few past times where I was as good (if not better) than my fellows at playing. D&D is escapism pure and simple leave the moral life lessons to the WoD games :D All this is from my (probably ignorant) point of view and experience, of course the situation with your son might be a totally different to mine, but I hope it has helped. [/QUOTE]
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