Well, its done - I've DMed my first game for kids... and the results are in...I have put a lot of work in there to try and make this entertaining and engaging for the kids. I built mini character sheets - a cool picture, a little intro text and some…
For the past few weeks, I've been preparing to run a game session. An introduction to DnD for a few 10 year old kids. I haven't been DM in about 12 years and - obviously - never using 4.0... which I've only played once. Armed with a basic knowledge of…
I have been pointed to an article by Wil Wheaton by the fine guys over at the 'RPG Kids' group. Wil talks about a rule he uses when playing games with his chiildren that allow re-rolling dice. Basically, he gives them three 'mulligan tokens', which allows them to reroll a…
I haven't been DM since college... that's war roughly in 1995... 13 years ago. I've offered one of my friends to DM for his 10 year-old boy and a few of his friends. They never played real role playing games. I've been obsessed by the idea ever since. I had…
I've been hit by a bit of news from a friend that first scared me: updates to the DnD 4th Edition core set of books. It immediately brought back memory of the painful "3.5" edition books that came up not so long after I had purchased my "3.0" books. I…
I've been looking for some DnD material on the Web. There's not much out for 4.0 yet, but there's a lot of nice little communities and open source tools. Here's a few that I find are really worth it: GameTable A nice tabletop software that allows you to share maps…
A few weeks ago, I got my Dungeons and Dragons 4.0 Player's Handbook (PHB for short). To tell you the truth, I wasn't really looking forward to 4.0. We've been playing with 3.5 for a while now and I managed to get over the frustrations of moving to 3.0 from…
You might've come across this super cool article from David Wong. It's worth reading, if you're into games, speculations about the industry and ever ranted about aspects of modern gaming. From what I hear, the article made quite some noise. Some angry noise. Well, what'll you do? The guy is…
