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!

[skordh]

I was also somewhat amazed that, quite without prompting, he said he should talk rather than fight ("he's no jedi!") Basically he offered the trio of hobgoblins money to go away rather than try to ransack the village, and it turned out their price was very low. Quite what the full consequences of this "hob-geld" will be remain to be seen...

[wellinghall]

And that is called paying the hob-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the hob-geld
You never get rid of the hob.

(with apologies to Rudyard Kipling)

[parrot_knight]

Endorsement here for the teacher-bemusing. I only hope the boys are not let down or opposed by unimaginative teachers further on.

[jane_somebody]

I hope so too!

[sharona1x2]

This situation calls for the quoting of a popular internet meme.

Parenting: You're doing it right. :-)

[elenopa]

I second this.

[jane_somebody]

I thought you might approve, after all I remember your attempts to get them to say "Doctor" when they were babies :-)

[jane_somebody]

Aw, thanks :-)

[adaese]

Woo-hoo! all round.

[jane_somebody]

:-D