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Message: <blockquote data-quote="buddhafrog" data-source="post: 5767558" data-attributes="member: 86605">Rechan ~ I love this thread and hope others will try to do what you're doing - even if it's with one's nephews and friends.  Kids love this game and especially if they're new to it, they'll have no idea how poor of a DM you are - they will think you're awesome.  I'll answer all your questions in a bit, but quickly: I firmly believe that no one needs minis to play D&D.  With that said, I do think they'd enjoy them a lot (same is true to a lesser extent with paper vs. battle maps).  Do you have friends that play and might have the D&D minis or tokens?  If so, I bet they might be willing to loan you some seeing that you're going to do this at the youth center.  I know a lot of Enworld'ers support you.  In fact, if enough people read this thread, I'm sure someone would be willing to donate all their unused tokens and maybe a few PC minis. I have a bunch from the D&D box sets that I never use... but I don't want to ship them to the USA.  However, if no one else here offers and you can't find any, PM me and I'll mail them to you as a donation.  If there is a FLGS near you, I bet they might be able to locate some tokens if not a few minis as a donation.  They'll want to get kids involved into gaming as well. I think the tokens are pretty nice and work well.  The Beginners' DM Kit box set comes with many and has a fantastic adventure: The Reavers of Harkenwold.  This is the only adventure I've really loved so far.  It's level 1 and I think would be great for beginners (if you run it, I have a few tweaks that I think work great with kids).  I've never used paper tokens but they look pretty nice.  I worry about their durability and such.  I just have a feeling that you should be able to find tokens at least, and hopefully once you know your PC's, one mini for each PC.  * As a side note, regarding levels, I've never gotten above level 10 or so.  I strongly agree that you should start Level 1 (I always change levels for adventures and was suggesting possibly Madness at around Level 2).  The higher the levels, the more confusing it becomes for players.  I often level up more quickly as well so that they feel a greater sense of achievements. But you know they'll be wanting to fight those dragons and beholders... so I just knock the "fun" monsters down quite a bit so they can be fought at earlier levels.</blockquote>

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