I'm still working on Cultic Greyhawk, but in the meantime, I'm about to start another campaign. My 10 year old son will be playing, so I wanted something a little less hardcore than what I'm envisioning for Greyhawk.We rolled up PC's today and the three players have formed a party consisting of:
A 1st lvl Fighter.
A 1st lvl Thief.
And a 1st lvl Elf.
Heh. No Cleric.
My son's playing the Fighter and immediately decided he was Lawful. "I want to be a good guy!"
I decided to go with B/X. I've never ran it, but it should be perfect for introducing my son to the game. I almost went with S&W Whitebox, but I want his first campaign to be a TSR edition of Dungeons & Dragons.
For all the talk of murder hobos . . . yeah, I wanted to be a good guy too when I was 9 and first place. Lots of times, I still want to play the good guy.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the game (and blog more, dammit!)
Being a good guy is fun!
DeleteDude, don't get me started on the murderhobo meme. I think that noise was a conjuration that came when misty nostalgia mixed with the internet. Seriously, we all wanted to be heroes when I was playing as a kid, even if you weren't the most lawful or good kind of hero. F murderhobos!
DeleteExcellent choice! I used Mentzer BE (Swedish version) for introducing my son last year, but I thought it was confusing with the rules in Swedish (I always used the original rules), so now we use Swords & Wizardry Core.
ReplyDeleteMoldvay B/X is the right mix of difficulty for a beginner game, and again for when you're older and don't want to deal with all the assorted codified complexities of latter-day fantasy games. It's easy, enjoyable even, to read and has wackier art than the Mentzer rules.
ReplyDeleteI've had great fun playing B/X with our group, my children, and a recent D&D tournament. It's simply the best!
ReplyDeleteB/X = system of choice.
ReplyDeleteYou can run it as-is or you can hack it without breaking it.
I run B/X for 40-somethings and for 4 year-olds.
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