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Dungeonmaster Kate
Nov. 1st, 2007 11:36 pmWell, if silkiemom is going to keep being so behind in her journaling, I should mention a few things. (We went to Hawaii for her brother's wedding, which was a most awesome event and much too short to be considered a vacation, but I'm sure she'll lj all the details.)
Kate has been bugging/pleading for a while now to run a D&D adventure. Last weekend we agreed; we made fresh characters: Josh has a halfling sorceress, Robert a human cleric, Sherilyn a halfling rogue, and I made a dwarf fighter.
Josh continues to impress -- he's very proud that he can read off the names of (and can describe how to use) all the 0th and 1st level spells he knows, and keeps track of how many of each he's used. Robert really liked having a cleric; he wanted someone better at healing than a paladin. But really the star here was Kate.
I gave her the pile of "casserole adventures" [1] and suggested she run the one that was suitable for first-level characters, so we're off to battle some tiny creatures that live in the local ruins and stole away the son of a local merchant. It's fun to listen to her read descriptive passages out loud, and occasionally hit a word she doesn't know and sound it out at us... she's a little nervous about deviating from the script, of course, so we had to help her out a bit and not ask too many questions, but give her a break, she's nine. :)
En route, Kate rolled a random encounter for the road, got two wolves, and very nearly took us down with them. We rolled our Spots against their Hides and failed. They got surprise and charged the two lightly-armored halfings in their surprise round, badly injuring both (and tripping them, of course), then they cooperatively moved to flank the dwarven fighter, all before we had a chance to react... my daughter is frighteningly good at tactics.
The cleric used most of his healing getting the halflings back on their feet, and the sorceress used three of her four magic missiles helping me take down the wolves. ("You should probably keep one spell in case you really need it. You do also have a sling." "Yes, and I have a Seldom-Used Quarterstaff too!" He totally cracks me up.)
Kate went to bed positively glowing; she really loved DMing and I'm certain she wants to keep on doing it. (I also let her know how much I enjoyed being a player for a change -- I haven't gotten to play, as opposed to GM, more than once a year since, well, seems like since before I was married, almost. I think Mike's Vampire game was the last actual campaign I was in. I miss it. Seems almost like cheating to have my daughter run a game just so I can play...)
[1] "casserole adventures" are adventures you can pull off the shelf and whip up quickly when you don't have anything prepared. They're those narrow 4x11" $2.99 Legends&Lores booklets from around 2001 or so, when D&D3e was new.
Kate has been bugging/pleading for a while now to run a D&D adventure. Last weekend we agreed; we made fresh characters: Josh has a halfling sorceress, Robert a human cleric, Sherilyn a halfling rogue, and I made a dwarf fighter.
Josh continues to impress -- he's very proud that he can read off the names of (and can describe how to use) all the 0th and 1st level spells he knows, and keeps track of how many of each he's used. Robert really liked having a cleric; he wanted someone better at healing than a paladin. But really the star here was Kate.
I gave her the pile of "casserole adventures" [1] and suggested she run the one that was suitable for first-level characters, so we're off to battle some tiny creatures that live in the local ruins and stole away the son of a local merchant. It's fun to listen to her read descriptive passages out loud, and occasionally hit a word she doesn't know and sound it out at us... she's a little nervous about deviating from the script, of course, so we had to help her out a bit and not ask too many questions, but give her a break, she's nine. :)
En route, Kate rolled a random encounter for the road, got two wolves, and very nearly took us down with them. We rolled our Spots against their Hides and failed. They got surprise and charged the two lightly-armored halfings in their surprise round, badly injuring both (and tripping them, of course), then they cooperatively moved to flank the dwarven fighter, all before we had a chance to react... my daughter is frighteningly good at tactics.
The cleric used most of his healing getting the halflings back on their feet, and the sorceress used three of her four magic missiles helping me take down the wolves. ("You should probably keep one spell in case you really need it. You do also have a sling." "Yes, and I have a Seldom-Used Quarterstaff too!" He totally cracks me up.)
Kate went to bed positively glowing; she really loved DMing and I'm certain she wants to keep on doing it. (I also let her know how much I enjoyed being a player for a change -- I haven't gotten to play, as opposed to GM, more than once a year since, well, seems like since before I was married, almost. I think Mike's Vampire game was the last actual campaign I was in. I miss it. Seems almost like cheating to have my daughter run a game just so I can play...)
[1] "casserole adventures" are adventures you can pull off the shelf and whip up quickly when you don't have anything prepared. They're those narrow 4x11" $2.99 Legends&Lores booklets from around 2001 or so, when D&D3e was new.
