New Campaign Started Tonight

ironbull · Post by **ironbull** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 11:19 pm

Greetings all-

Started my first ever C&C campaign tonight. I have two players - my 9 year old daughter Olivia and my 6 1/2 year old son Lucas. Liv played a Wizard (Sally the Wizard) and Lucas played a Thief (Robert the Snake).

They made their way to the keep which will serve as their base of operations (The Keep as in The Keep on the Borderlands). They met some locals, made a couple friends, and learned a bit about the town. They also learned that a local merchant had just had four of his horses stolen by some goblin bandits. The set out with their two new friends Myra Black (Human female fighter) and Brother Claudius (Human male cleric).

As they followed the trail of the goblin raiders, one of the goblins surprised them with an ambush, shooting an arrow at Robert the Snake. The goblin missed and Robert chased him down and dropped him with one shot. Lucas rolled an 18 to hit and then did 5 points of damage with his short sword. Needless to say, the boy was quite pleased with himself.
After a bit more tracking, the party found the remaining four goblins around a campfire. Robert was able to sneak up on them and the fight insued. Robert dropped another goblin while Sally waded in with her staff. Sally quickly learned that she might be better off starting with a Magic Missile spell - she got clubbed by a goblin and took 2 points of damage, leaving her with 3 hit points.

Eventually a second goblin was dropped and the remaining two cried out for mercy. Robert was in favor of just killing them, but cooler heads prevailed. The goblins were relieved of their coins and weapons and set free. Three of the four horses were recovered (the fourth had been eaten by the goblins) and the party returned a bit battered to the Keep.

The kids didn't want to stop playing and we all had a good time. I have made copper, silver, and gold coin tokens out of cardstock so they have a way of keeping track of their treasure. They were pleased to be about 10 gold pieces ahead of where they started tonight. Lots of fun.

RakintheBlue · Post by **RakintheBlue** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 11:29 pm

Wow 6? Man one more year, hopefully for my boy then!

Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 11:36 pm

Yeah, its cool running a game for your kids. My daughter started when she was 7.
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RakintheBlue · Post by **RakintheBlue** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:13 am

Obviously the use of commas eludes me.

ironbull · Post by **ironbull** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:34 am

My little guy is quite a game player. I can't get him to do the 10 minutes of homework his teacher sends home with him ("Dad, it's boring!"), but he'll play any game I teach him until he understands it and learns how to beat the Old Man. (Honestly, I never was much for doing homework when I was a kid either. Mainly because it was boring.)
About two months ago, he found an old backgammon set I had in the basement gameroom. He wanted to know what it was about, so I taught him the rules and we played a couple games. After two games, he had the rules down. After about five he figured out basic strategy. I think I played more games of backgammon in a month with that kid than I played in the previous 40 years of my life all together.

Right now he and my daughter are still trying to figure out what die to roll when, etc. If we keep playing off and on over the next month or two, they'll have the rules down and be able to handle the game without much trouble. We had a lot of fun tonight.

Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:50 am

Hey ironbull. Very cool report. I have a "Liv" as well and she was my reason to return to D&D after so many years away from the game. She gamed with our group for 2 1/2 years, but now is 16 and interested in boys and driving (just got her license). I only wished I would have returned earlier.

But on the good side, I now have 4 nephews and 1 friend that are regulars in my group.

Enjoy the game and . . . your kids!!!
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Wulfgarn · Post by **Wulfgarn** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:58 am

My daughters have been role playing off and on with me since they were way young

I started by doing interactive story time at night with them and they love it

C &C is a great way to do it

Brenna was 4 or 5 when she startted to play a character and Evelyn was around that age too

Jake my eldest was 5 when we stared playing Mage Knight and 7 when we played 3rd edition

Martin

Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:01 am

Wulfgarn wrote:
My daughters have been role playing off and on with me since they were way young

I started by doing interactive story time at night with them and they love it

C &C is a great way to do it

Brenna was 4 or 5 when she startted to play a character and Evelyn was around that age too

Jake my eldest was 5 when we stared playing Mage Knight and 7 when we played 3rd edition

Martin

I did the same thing!! One was with Bernie and his familiar, Topaz the Topaz Dragon. The other was a good vampire, named Jacob, and how he hid in the shadows meting out justice, and feeding off of, people who were mean to their wife and kids.
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cleaverthepit · Post by **cleaverthepit** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:44 am

it'll be a few years before my two youngsters are old enough to game but when they are, they will at least get the chance.

Nice story.

davis

Post by **Breakdaddy** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:55 pm

Good one, ironbull!

Gleemax Jr · Post by **Gleemax Jr** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:22 pm

It is always good to massage the imagination of the younglings. It makes them smarter.

ironbull · Post by **ironbull** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:35 pm

We used to play interactive story telling games too. When the kids were much smaller - Liv was 6 and Lucsas was 3 - we used to set up this huge wooden train set I bought them. It was kinda like those Thomas the Tank Engine train sets, but not nearly as expensive!
Anyway, we had enough sets of this stuff to cover the living room floor. We made buildings out of big sized lego type blocks and told stories to each other about the people who lived in "PizzaVille".

I'd start a story by telling them a line or two about a character and they'd take turns adding to it. They'd play "PizzaVille" every night if we had time. Lots of fun making up those stories. After a while, I didn't have to participate in making up the stories. I just reminded them of past stories and asked questions to keep them talking. Loads of fun.

CharlieRock · Post by **CharlieRock** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:40 pm

Way cool, dude!
Kinda reminds me of when I got my goddaughter to play T&T. I used to just read the solo adventure books to her and let her decide and roll. It kept her out of trouble. For at least a minute or two