Playing with my son
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 7:24 am
Not much of an "actual play" report, but my son has been drooling over all of these cool character sheets people have made here and which I collate into huge PDFs.
I've been testing the waters a little bit with gaming in general with him, because he's definitely interested in Daddy's cool stuff. He's only 5, so I can't go too far with rules (he's a bright kid, but he has the attention span off...uh...a 5-year old).
We have played RPGKids and that worked pretty well, though it took him till the end of the adventure before he started developing anything resembling tactics or a grasp of the rules.
But we both love superheroes. So I wanted to do something with that.
So last night I was prepping for a (grown-up) game and we were talking and he said he wanted to play a superhero game. I had just been thinking that BASH might work with him, so I said, "OK. Let's do it."
I pulled out a Robin Heroclix and some thugs, pulled out a Robin character sheet I have for BASH, and went to it. We even used a Heroclix map to set up a bank robbery in progress.
My son couldn't understand the rules, really, so for the dice, I just had him count up the dots and I did the math. As for choosing attacks, I just used the names of the attacks on the character sheet and let him pick.
Needless to say, Robin dealt with the 3 thugs in very short order. He wanted to play some more, so I pulled out a Bane clix and had him enter the scene. Except I didn't have any Bane stats prepared. So I used Solomon Grundy. Oy.
This proved quite a challenge to Robin. He couldn't hurt Grundy and, for the most part, Grundy couldn't hit Robin. Except when I rolled a 17 and rocked Robin's world with a fist.
But eventually, of his own accord, my son realized he should go try to hide to set up an ambush, but we didn't get to go past when Robin hid in some bushes. So there is some burgeoning tactical sense here that I need to develop.
It was bedtime before we finished, but it was definitely a successful experiemnt. We'll be doing it again soon! And I have a use for all those unused Heroclix I have!
I've been testing the waters a little bit with gaming in general with him, because he's definitely interested in Daddy's cool stuff. He's only 5, so I can't go too far with rules (he's a bright kid, but he has the attention span off...uh...a 5-year old).
We have played RPGKids and that worked pretty well, though it took him till the end of the adventure before he started developing anything resembling tactics or a grasp of the rules.
But we both love superheroes. So I wanted to do something with that.
So last night I was prepping for a (grown-up) game and we were talking and he said he wanted to play a superhero game. I had just been thinking that BASH might work with him, so I said, "OK. Let's do it."
I pulled out a Robin Heroclix and some thugs, pulled out a Robin character sheet I have for BASH, and went to it. We even used a Heroclix map to set up a bank robbery in progress.
My son couldn't understand the rules, really, so for the dice, I just had him count up the dots and I did the math. As for choosing attacks, I just used the names of the attacks on the character sheet and let him pick.
Needless to say, Robin dealt with the 3 thugs in very short order. He wanted to play some more, so I pulled out a Bane clix and had him enter the scene. Except I didn't have any Bane stats prepared. So I used Solomon Grundy. Oy.
This proved quite a challenge to Robin. He couldn't hurt Grundy and, for the most part, Grundy couldn't hit Robin. Except when I rolled a 17 and rocked Robin's world with a fist.
But eventually, of his own accord, my son realized he should go try to hide to set up an ambush, but we didn't get to go past when Robin hid in some bushes. So there is some burgeoning tactical sense here that I need to develop.
It was bedtime before we finished, but it was definitely a successful experiemnt. We'll be doing it again soon! And I have a use for all those unused Heroclix I have!
I hope I'll be able to play with my kids like this. Once I'll be a father 