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Looked all 'round for somewhere to post this, if it's in the wrong place, scold me now!
Kramer: Standby, Striker. We're going to the tower, good luck.
Johnny: The tower, the tower . . . Repunzle, Repunzle . . .
So anyway I don't DM over the summer, or so I thought. No, I'm actually playing in a friend's Halls of the Mountain King campaign and having a blast.
But my "family game" has been on hold for a while. This is the one where I DM my wife and my 12 and 16 year-old daughters through Keep on the Borderlands under 3.5. Well, we finished that a while back and then the whole "waiting for Pathfinder" thing happened and we went on our own hiatus.
What a crime. So, as one of "my" birthday presents on Monday, I said I wanted to run a session for them. I quickly updated their PCs to Pathfinder and we went a-delving. A quick battle with a small Black Dragon and his cohorts later, and they found this book. They opened it, and it transported them away.
It took them about half an hour (and a second session last night) to figure out they had been transported to a finite demiplane created by a mad wizard to emulate his favorite childhood stories.
What results is them trapped here and they can't activate the gate out without a lock of Repunzle's hair and a boot from an old woman who lives in a shoe.
Now, normally I'd never run something like this but it seemed the perfect venue for the "kid's game" and it's turning out to be such a hoot. More than likely because they'd run me ragged if they could. If the kids had it their way I'd run a 3-hour game every night of the week.
I have never heard such lamentation over a cliffhanger stop in my life. It's like I killed their pet or something. On the other hand, enthusiastic players rule, eh?
So they start fighting Repunzle's guardian the black knight while sending their only male henchman up the tower invisibly with a ladder. They defeat the black knight, and their henchman leans out the window to proclaim in a freakishly enchanted voice "infidels! none shall approach the tower of Repunzle!" and I cliffhanger stop, and once again I have to run for my life.
Tonight I watch a Phillies game! :-D