Post by friartook on Feb 14, 2015 21:56:03 GMT
No, this is not a Star Trek thread!
So, I think I mentioned in my bio that I have three kids. Our youngest is only 15 months, so no D&D for him yet, but I introduced the older boys to it last year. Our 11 year old kind of enjoys it, but he mostly just wants to kick ass and forget the names.
However, our middle son, age 9, took to it strongly. I let him DM a session for me one day, and he is now officially hooked. He won't play unless he can Dungeon Master. He has created his own monsters and runs a slick campaign for a 9 year old. While that is pretty awesome in itself, there was a particularly amazing incident today.
Trevor (not his real name, but I'm not in to outing my kids online just yet) talked to him mom today and asked if we would take him to a book store to get a book his teacher is reading to his class. We agreed readily, he's had some trouble with reading, and is a bit behind the curve for his age group (another reason I encourage him to DM, the D&D rule books were the first text books I ever read as a kid). The book is called The Last of the Really Amazing Whangdoodles. Ridiculous right?
When we got home, I encouraged him to read some of it. He rolled his eyes, glared at me, and said, "Andy, I only got this book for D&D." When I asked for clarification, he explained that the he thought the world in this book was like a D&D world, and that he wanted to run a campaign in that world. I almost jumped for joy! My boy wants to do worldbuilding at age 9! He already has 6 monsters and was working on NPCs when I left for work this evening. He is running a campaign for us tomorrow afternoon, and I can't wait!
Proud Papa here!!
So, I think I mentioned in my bio that I have three kids. Our youngest is only 15 months, so no D&D for him yet, but I introduced the older boys to it last year. Our 11 year old kind of enjoys it, but he mostly just wants to kick ass and forget the names.
However, our middle son, age 9, took to it strongly. I let him DM a session for me one day, and he is now officially hooked. He won't play unless he can Dungeon Master. He has created his own monsters and runs a slick campaign for a 9 year old. While that is pretty awesome in itself, there was a particularly amazing incident today.
Trevor (not his real name, but I'm not in to outing my kids online just yet) talked to him mom today and asked if we would take him to a book store to get a book his teacher is reading to his class. We agreed readily, he's had some trouble with reading, and is a bit behind the curve for his age group (another reason I encourage him to DM, the D&D rule books were the first text books I ever read as a kid). The book is called The Last of the Really Amazing Whangdoodles. Ridiculous right?
When we got home, I encouraged him to read some of it. He rolled his eyes, glared at me, and said, "Andy, I only got this book for D&D." When I asked for clarification, he explained that the he thought the world in this book was like a D&D world, and that he wanted to run a campaign in that world. I almost jumped for joy! My boy wants to do worldbuilding at age 9! He already has 6 monsters and was working on NPCs when I left for work this evening. He is running a campaign for us tomorrow afternoon, and I can't wait!
Proud Papa here!!