Baby's First D&D Adventure

[jane_somebody]

A real land-mark day - prince_eldarion, aged seven-and-a-third, has just played his first D&D session :-)

Inspired by kargicq's starting his children off role-playing, skordh dug out our old D&D rulebook. El spotted it and was interested enough that he has been reading it for the past few nights for his bedtime reading! So after school today, Skordh helped him generate a

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[wellinghall]

Yay, yay, and yay again!

#proudgodfather

[jane_somebody]

I thought you would approve :-)

[wellinghall]

Do you realise that when I was El's age, D&D didn't even exist?

#feelingold

[jane_somebody]

Yeah, me too (or at least, hadn't made it to this country, I'm not sure quite when it was invented.) I *think* I was 10 or 11 when I first encountered D&D; the older brother of a friend who lived up the road had a set and invited me and my brother over to DM an adventure for us and his younger brother (my friend.) It featured a gorgon as the main antagonist, and I was very pleased with myself that I had read sufficient Greek mythology to recognise her and know that we needed to use something as a mirror to defeat her :-) So I suppose I was a classicist-in-training even then!

[wellinghall]

First published in 1974, Wikipedia tells me. I first played it in 1979.