WotC Podcast - Q&A and D&D with Kids adventure

[Rechan]

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Creatures and Questions)

At the start of the podcast, they are talking about an adventure you can download off of WotC's site that is designed for 5-6 year old kids. And they want you to send "How do you game for little kids" questions to the podcast.

You can find that adventure here.

 

[Markn]

Any good questions in the mailbag portion?

 

[Rechan]

Any good questions in the mailbag portion?

They have decided that, instead of doing One Big mailbag, they are going to answer a few questions in each podcast.

The questions today were:

Is a close/area effect a CUBE, or is it on a plane? Does a character over 6' fill two squares vertically?

To what extent do monsters know what PC powers do, and to what extent shoudl PCs know what monster powers do? I.e. marking and powers that trigger off of those