Tonight my son, who recently turned 11, ran his first RPG!

Tonight my son, who recently turned 11, ran his first RPG!

Tonight my son, who recently turned 11, ran his first RPG!

He ran World of Dungeons. He used a one-page adventure, Goblin Gully , but only used the first four rooms of it before he brought it to an end. This was a test run because he wants to run World of Dungeons for his class at their holiday party tomorrow.

Highlights:

– After a fight above ground, we enter the first room of the “dungeon”; it is an empty antechamber. My son suggests we look for traps and secret doors, and lo and behold, there is one! Inside is a beefy goblin with a “magic axe” (one of the rumors in the adventure). After we dispatch the goblin, he then makes up a magic axe, which he says is +1 Strength, and has a “slam attack” and if you roll a critical hit, it shatters “their whole insides, heart, lungs, the liver, all of it, it’s like an earthquake inside their body!”

– At one point, Cary Rogers rolls Volley to fire an arrow at a goblin. She rolls an 8, then rolls damage (enough to kill the goblin). My son describes the hit, by getting up and running back to a clear space in the living room, and acts out as the arrow alllmost missing, but the goblin tries to dodge and jumps into the arrow’s path, and then dies. It was pretty great as he acted it out. He did this eye crossing and fall, so classic.

– He decides the leader goblin is a coward, and while the rest of his lackeys are attacking, he just sits at a table shaking in terror.

– One of the goblins shows up with a frickin’ rifle!

– My Wizard summons a stone spirit, and squishes a goblin, the sound effect he made was horrific.

– The leader reveals that he’d kidnapped some local villagers (the story seed for the dungeon adventure) and begs to be left alive, which we did (he made me roll to “choke him out”)

– At the fourth room, we find the villagers, a mother and father and their little daughter, all in cages. The cages are all locked, by a SUPER AMAZING LOCK, which is powered by LASERS. Luckily, my wife’s ranger has lockpicks (why did she buy lockpicks for her ranger? Well, it worked out), and she aces the roll. A family reunion and success!

22 thoughts on “Tonight my son, who recently turned 11, ran his first RPG!”

  19. I dropped him off for school this morning. Right before he got out of the car, he looked down at his shirt and said, “Oh no!”

    I ask him what was wrong.

    He says, “I totally should have worn my Gauntlet RPG shirt!”

  20. I dropped him off for school this morning. Right before he got out of the car, he looked down at his shirt and said, “Oh no!”

    I ask him what was wrong.

    He says, “I totally should have worn my Gauntlet RPG shirt!”

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