Thank you all for your kind words. @scadgrad: the kids paint 28mm miniatures minis with me for years now (in their own childish way) and making the connection of the painting and roleplaying was a wonderful thing for them. They want to shop in my big collection now to have a mini for their characters :)
I want to share this story here on the boards. Last night I had a gaming session (black fang scenario) with the kids of good friends. We (parents) were talking about this for some time and finally we settled down to yesterday evening as the moment. The session was at the house of one of the parents and I went to them with very low expectations. Arriving there the kids (2 girls and 1 boy around 13 years old) where hanging behind facebook and the game console, so not much chance to get a game started. One of the fathers rallied the kids together and with much whining and long faces they assembled at the table where I started to explain the concept.
Moments like this shows me what a great product the beginner box is and
I am unable to run longer campaigns with "bigger" groups (4 to 5 people) since making agreements on playtime becomes very difficult then. People are overstretched on rpg sessions, lots of call offs at the last moment, etc.... However most of the time I find it easier to make agreements with smaller groups, most of the time groups of two people who are a gamer couple. I find it very difficult to create balanced encounters for such a small group, while they are able to rp themselves out of trouble most of the time sometimes they just hit the blade.
My question is, what do other gm's do to help such groups to have a surviving chance ?
@Khelreddin: Thanks for the tips. I will look into these adventures. I used to write most of my adventures myself or converted published adventures. And I can't wait to do that again. Maybe I will convert some old favourites of mine to pf.
Last saturday I gm'ed my first game in years. We played the scenario in the beginners box. Got three players, where one was an experienced PF player who gave a helping hand. One was new to PF and the third didn't knew what roleplay was.
Greetings all from Belgium. I have the beginner box now for a week and it is such a wonderful product.
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