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That's right.. We hosted a Pathfinder event at my FLGS just for kids..
I chose to run "We be goblins" at the request of my wife.. She loved it.
Overall I think this module is great for introducing little ones to Pathfinder & PFS. There aren't any hardcore adult themes( though i did change the BBEG from a cannibal to "bug eater").Since our table was larger than 4 i added a few dares ..
sewer water chugging dare(kids drank green juice with gummy fish in it)
Worm eating contest ( gummy worms..)
The only other change i made was i moved the encounter with Lotsoflegs into a cave and used some 3-d terrain..
The final encounter was a blast. I had made a special boat just for this gaming session. The kids decided the best way to deal with the BBEG was to blow up the ship !
If i get a chance I'll link some of the photo's from our gaming session ...
Go to Facebook pics.
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Ah wow! The Facebook pic warms my heart!
Great minor additions/changes to We Be Goblins, btw. It's a fun romp if you age-appropriate it and I bet the kids loved it. Such a great excuse to roleplay and find some fun in those little homicidal loonies!
We're you running full Pathfinder ruleset or the Beginner Box subset?
Love the picture!
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A quick question about this adventure:
It says in her stats that Vorka likes to use summon nature's ally to summon dogs, but I don't see that spell/ability otherwise listed in her stats or gear. Am I missing it?!
Druids can spontaneously convert any prepared spell to a Summon Nature's Ally of the appropriate level.
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A quick question about this adventure:
It says in her stats that Vorka likes to use summon nature's ally to summon dogs, but I don't see that spell/ability otherwise listed in her stats or gear. Am I missing it?!
Back to this thread, what ages where this group? What do you think is the absolute earliest kids are capable of role-playing in a table-top situation?
I think the role-play is not the problem. Kids VERY young can have great imagination. You can be suprised what a five year old can come up with as ideas.
The bigger problem is to follow rules and to stay engaged for long enough.
I have had my two kids start with 9 and 7 when they had their first PFS game.
Issues I encountered:
Concentration: It helps to break up the game into chunks. Do one or two encounters - let them have a break, carry on. The younger you go - the more this is a problem. I would have preferred to wait with my daughter - but my son was keen to play and she would have felt left out.
Props and especially 3D scenery helps A LOT. My son was 4 when he used DwarvenForge instead of Lego to build up scenarios and make up stories.
With 9 he even designed his own role play game when he was 9 - making up whole advantures, coming up with HP, damage dice etc. (yes - inbetween it could happen that he would ask daddy what dice a certain monster would be - in which case I looked at what he had done before and tried to apply something in line with Pathfinder to get the balance.
You want them to be able to read and to add a d20 plus a modifier. Actually at young age roleplay can be regarded as math training. Just be patient as GM if it takes longer for them to add it up - yes - sometimes this isn't easy when you want to go on and it takes 5-10 seconds to interpret a dice roll. But I was shocked to have a 18-20 year old at my table using a calculator for that during the weekend ...
So in summary - they can role-play very, very early - and can have a lot of fun. Rules wise they need someone to help them along until they are versed enough.
There are easier classes - Fighter !! and more demanding ones - druid - yep - Lini and her snow leopard look cute but are not the best starting option. But even then there are ways to help - I made spell cards for my daughter who wanted to play Lini (now called Lulu and just reached 5th level this weekend) to ease the use of spells.
Having seen adults play and being used to it early on also helps.
I GMed three tables with 2 kids and 3-4 adults on them at the weekend (age 9-12) and in two cases a young one was nominated as most valued player for a price draw. Yes - some of it is cuteness factor - but as GM I would say - it was deserved.
Oh - one last bit - young ones best play Pre-gen characters or have an adult building their character / leveling it up. Or at least - help doing so. My son - now 11 - starts to be autonomous in this respect - but it still helps to look over his choices and to suggest alternatives. I never try to tell them what to take - but I give them 2-3 choices that seem to make sense and fit into the way they play.
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We be goblins cupcakes....
Go to facebook pic.
yes there was a RIP cupcake in case of a goblin death....
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This is great. I ran the same thing last night with my kids and my nephew. Ages 13, 10, 8, 7..
Right from the beginning the 13yr old started playing his goblin voice all the others starting doing the same thing. They really were like goblins in the game. Fighting amongst themselves over who would lead, making funny sounds, singing the goblin songs while they traveled in the Brinestump. Even the y yr old made fun of his name chuckling that it sounded like poop(he played poog).
Unfortunately it took two hours just to get to Stomp, so I have to continue the game tonight after dinner.
Concentration is definitely something with younger gamers. But they had tons of fun so far.
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A goblin rhyme to get people in the mood!
Each of us with a toad to lick
We’re the gobs you want to pick
All the flames! All the fire!
Roast the dogs in the pyre!
Do the challenge, ride the pig
Search for firework; boom go big!
Watch for Lotslegs if you dare
Add a pirate ship for flair
We’re goblins on a goblin quest
We kill some and flame the rest!