Running a C&C game with 9 year olds.

[Breakdaddy]

D&D. Old Basic, actually.

The kid is the son of my wife's best friend. He's a total computer game geek and was big into Yu Gi Oh a couple years ago. One night when they were over, he was eager to show me some freebie online fantasy RPG he discovered. It was pretty generic, and I explained to him that I had a game just like that you played without the computer.

He wanted to know more, so I leant him a spare copy I had of the old Mentzer Basic books, figuring I wouldn't mind if I didn't get them back. Well, he read them cover to cover, made his mom take him to buy dice, and is now itching to play. His mom's happy because he's gotten his head out of the computer and is looking up new vocabulary words.

I've told him if he finds two other kids who want to play, I'll run a game for them.

I still have my copy of B1, and just picked up a copy of B2 -- so they're really going to be doing it old school.

Carl

NICE! Sounds like it will be a lot of fun. I wouldnt mind going back and playing a little old Basic D&D. I need to dust off the old Moldvay box and/or my Rules Cyclopedia more often.