Revers Stat boost, goblins and the eating of childrens flesh

[alsih2o]

If I am not mistaken, the BOy Scouts started as messengers on bikes during World War I.

This makes me want to create a class based around adventuring children. Give them reverse stat boosts, dragging them down a bit to reflect their lack of physical maturity (halfling stats?) and make them messengers for a war.

Whis brings in all kinds of interesting possiblities- The PC's in their early levels getting the same missions as 13 year olds, catching goblins eating said 13 year olds, and having to stay on the good side of a paramilitary group of youngsters. Some of these youngsters may be quite experienced and act uppity to the adventurers.

What roles have you used children for besides needing rescue?

 

[Aust Diamondew]

Well one of my PCs likes eating babys every now and then but he can't help it being a minotuar and all.

 

[Turanil]

What roles have you used children for besides needing rescue?

Chocolate Thieves and Candy Robbers of course...

Well one of my PCs likes eating babys every now and then but he can't help it being a minotuar and all.

What?!??!! You mean that your minotaur doesn't eat straw?! (as all self-respecting cows and bulls are expected to...)

 

[mmadsen]

If I am not mistaken, the BOy Scouts started as messengers on bikes during World War I.

From The Beginnings of the Movement:

"T he Boy Scout movement was born at Mafeking,” in 1899, South Africa, during the Boer War. British Lieutenant-General Robert S.S. Baden-Powell, the originator of the Boy Scout idea and known as the “Hero of Mafeking” for the important victory gained there, created the Boy Scouts in order to relieve the fatigued British army. The army needed help if they were going to be victorious, and Baden-Powell struck upon an ingenious plan. Under his direction, Lord Edward Cecil:

"collected the boys of Mafeking, talked to them, drilled them, and put them into uniform. They became messengers, carrying dispatches from fort to fort on the lines; they kept a lookout, they acted as orderlies, and so relieved from these duties [those soldiers] who were so badly needed in the firing line".

The “first of the Boy Scouts,” then, were essentially a junior corps of soldiers, used exclusively to aid the army in all its tasks other than combat.​