ACTION HEROESĪ player’s first time roleplaying can be awkward, so I quickly worked through the adventure background and right into the goblin ambush to get everyone focused on the game. New players-kids and adults alike-often have short attention spans that don’t want or need a math lesson or a discussion of mechanics. For everything else, I just left it for explanation if and when it came up in the game.
Here’s the number the monster needs to hit you. If you hit, here’s what you roll for damage. On your character sheet, here’s the number you add to hit the monster. I did a really high-level overview of combat. For example, do you want to sneak in the shadows? Hit monsters with a sword up close, or shoot arrows from a distance? Cast magic spells? I focused on what type of heroes the players wanted to be, not on how much damage each class dealt or which race had the best features. CHARACTERS, NOT STAT BLOCKSĪs the players got ready, I went over possible character choices by focusing on play styles. It was important to get to the fun as fast as possible, and pregens are the best way to get everyone playing the game quickly. Though rolling up a character is great fun, I quickly realized that doing so would have taken up our whole first gaming session as I tried to help all the players create characters for the first time. I opted for the Lost Mine of Phandelver adventure in the D&D Starter Set, having played it once or twice with coworkers.Ĭonveniently, the Starter Set also comes with a number of pregenerated characters. What remained were two parents, a sixth-grader, a fifth-grader, an incredibly excited 2nd-grader, and my 2nd-grade daughter who just wanted to co-DM and roll the dice for me.īecause this was going to be the first time playing D&D for all the players, I wanted to run something I was familiar with so I could focus on different hooks to get them into the adventure. I told the players (kids and adults) that they were free to go play video games. A couple of parents brought multiple kids, so I wasn’t surprised as things got going that my son and several of his fifth-grade friends just weren’t interested-as was also the case for a parent or two.Īs a DM, it’s important to not take this personally. In fact, one of those not-every-kids is none other than my own son. This might come as a shock, but not every kid wants to roll dice and slay goblins.
I’d been thinking for a while about playing with my own kids, so this seemed like a perfect opportunity.Īfter recruiting several other parent-and-kid combos, I set up a gaming night at my house, with a pool of players ranging from 2nd- to 6th-graders and their parents. A couple of months ago, a friend asked me if I’d teach him and his 6th-grade son how to play D&D.
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