My 8-yr old actually carried King Fatmouth's head around the dungeon and would show it to any goblins they came across. Any goblins that saw it would get enraged and fight to the death. He also proceeded to throw a dead lizard at the Reefclaw.
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My sons (12 & 8) absolutely loved this. My RPG background involves mostly basic D&D from the early to mid 90's. When 3E came out I bought several of the books but never really got anything going (did manage to play a little Sunless Citadel though). So its been over 10 years since I've even attempted to play a table-top RPG. My older son did the "choose-your-own-adventure" style introdution from the Players Book, then we jumped right into Black Fang's Dungeon. I have to say right off the bat that this is an excellent introductory product. Having not been involved in any role-playing in many years I was able to pretty much play this right out of the box. I probably missed a few rules, but it didn't matter because we had a blast. As far as the dungeon itself, they cleared every room except the fire-trap. They used the 4 pre-generated characters provided in the box (2 NPCs), but my son renamed the fighter Conan. They fought the Goblin King rather than talk, and managed to kill them all. I do remember that one being a tough battle though. When the King had maybe 1 or 2 hp left my younger son did a huge amount of damage with the fighter, so I added a little flavor by saying his head was lopped off with the last strike. He then decided he wanted the carry the head around the dungeon. Anytime they ran into anymore goblins he'd hold the head up for them to see. Also, during the battle with the Razorclaw, he proceeded to throw a dead lizard at it. We had a good laugh about that. They managed to make it to Blackfang and were able to do a nice chunk of damage before he flew away. The cleric was the only character that went into negative hit points during that battle. So now they are back in Sandpoint awaiting the next adventure. They ask a lot when we're going to play Pathfinder again. I think I might do the short downloaded adventure with the dwarves and then maybe a couple from the GM book. After that we may move on to the full rules. |