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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 496790" data-attributes="member: 8530">This advice may be too late for you, as the weekend has gone by, but one approach to use with new players is a short game to get them familiar with the characters, making is something that they can relate to such as going shopping, going to a fair, or walking along a country road.  Most of the first game should just be interactions with the other characters and a few colorful NPC's to get the ball rolling.  I will be running a game along those lines at an upcoming SCA Yule event for young players (ages 8 to 12), most of whom will be totally new to D&D.  I plan to have pre-rolled age-appropriate children as the characters, to ease the transition into the gaming system.    These characters will not be of actual character classes, but will each have an idea of what they want to be when they grow up.</blockquote>