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Post by Admin Pete on Jun 23, 2017 9:09:23 GMT -5
Over on ODD74, scottanderson posted the following: My daughter the DM was born in 2004. She's been running game since since 2010. Amazing how good kids are at this stuff. , please tell us more about how you daughter was a DM at 6 years old. That is a story that needs to be told(we/I want to hear about). How is she doing now that she is in her 8th year as a DM? |
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Post by scottanderson on Jun 23, 2017 11:37:16 GMT -5
Kids are great at make pretend! Imagining what's in the dungeon is fun and easy for a kid.
She saw how you draw out a map, she understood the attacks versus AC, she understood hit points, and she used minis and just made up what the monsters would do! Everything else was kind of hand-waved, which is how a lot of grownup DMs play too.
The one funny thing was, every dungeon had one room where it was a girl's bedroom, and there was a young girl princess to be saved. It was so precious.
Now she's 13. She's more self-conscious so she doesn't have that gusto to just wing it like she did then. She has run a few games for her friends on Roll20 but for the most part she's happier to be a player now.
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Post by Admin Pete on Jun 23, 2017 11:49:02 GMT -5
Kids are great at make pretend! Imagining what's in the dungeon is fun and easy for a kid. She saw how you draw out a map, she understood the attacks versus AC, she understood hit points, and she used minis and just made up what the monsters would do! Everything else was kind of hand-waved, which is how a lot of grownup DMs play too. The one funny thing was, every dungeon had one room where it was a girl's bedroom, and there was a young girl princess to be saved. It was so precious. Now she's 13. She's more self-conscious so she doesn't have that gusto to just wing it like she did then. She has run a few games for her friends on Roll20 but for the most part she's happier to be a player now. I love it! It would be great to play with a kid reffing. Well let me encourage her as she gets older to recover that gusto and just wing it. I started playing in 1975 and we are in 2017 and winging it is all I have ever done and really have no desire to do it any other way. I think being self-conscious is part of being a teen, I know I sure was, but I got over it and I am sure she will too! (I was over 18 when I started playing so I was past much of being self-conscious at that point) |
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Post by raikenclw on Jun 23, 2017 23:04:30 GMT -5
I also would like to encourage the young GM. And I - also - normally just wing a lot of any game. I create detailed NPCs and give them ideas of what they're going to do . . . then drop the PCs into the midst of their plans and watch what happens! I love it! It would be great to play with a kid reffing. The closest I've come to playing in a game with a kid GM was a couple of sessions where the youngest member of my college group - who was actually a sophmore at a local high school - ran the game. I did play an 8 year old boy in a Changeling game once. The GM was amazed at how I (a then 34 year old) channelled the attitude and world view of a kid. There was one point in particular where I really killed it . . . Our PCs were stranded in the Andy Griffith TV show (one of the black and white seasons) and were wondering how to get back to the real world. My kid said, "Ah! That's easy! We just get on the bus for that route." The other players - all playing teenagers - looked at me like I was crazy. At which point the GM said, "And just then, a gray and white bus pulls up at the corner, belching black smoke out of it's tailpipe. As you watch, the flip sign on top turns over from 'RALEIGH' to 'REAL WORLD.'" My kid crows, "See! Told ya! Let's go!" and charges up the steps as the doors creak open. |
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Post by Robert the Black on Jun 27, 2017 14:01:00 GMT -5
A six year old DM, that would be awesome. Being a player is good for DM's, it is always good to switch sides of the screen now and then. Too many people will never try being the DM though.
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Post by Bartholmew Quarrels on Jun 27, 2017 16:49:35 GMT -5
Nothing beats playing games with your kids and your grandkids and if you are really fortunate your great grandkids.
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Post by mao on Jun 27, 2017 17:18:34 GMT -5
Totally love this, my 26 year old son actually runs my old game world, On a slightly related note I have a comic book written by a 6 yr old(Ax Man) its pretty good
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Post by Maximum Forest Ranger on Jun 28, 2017 8:45:29 GMT -5
Nothing beats playing games with your kids and your grandkids and if you are really fortunate your great grandkids. I'm giving you an exalt for this, yeah that is the best. |
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Post by Mighty Darci on Jun 29, 2017 7:05:33 GMT -5
It so good to see that you sweet old men love kids. When I get married I want a man like that (the sweet and love kids part). I mean old in the best way ( you guys have kids older than me after all).   |
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Post by mao on Jun 29, 2017 7:08:50 GMT -5
awe shucks!!!!!!
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Post by Mighty Darci on Jun 29, 2017 7:25:30 GMT -5
You're just an "awe shucks" kind of guy! |
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Post by mao on Jun 29, 2017 7:28:22 GMT -5
So I have a 28 year old daughter, how much younger are you?
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Post by Mighty Darci on Jun 29, 2017 7:37:57 GMT -5
So I have a 28 year old daughter, how much younger are you? I'm 20, 21 in August. |
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Jun 29, 2017 7:42:27 GMT -5
It so good to see that you sweet old men love kids. When I get married I want a man like that (the sweet and love kids part). I mean old in the best way ( you guys have kids older than me after all). Are you kidding? I have rolegames older than you! 😜 |
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Post by Mighty Darci on Jun 29, 2017 7:44:35 GMT -5
It so good to see that you sweet old men love kids. When I get married I want a man like that (the sweet and love kids part). I mean old in the best way ( you guys have kids older than me after all). Are you kidding? I have rolegames older than you! 😜 I'm sorry, I forgot some of you are not just old, you're ancient. I mean that in the nicest possible way of course.  I hope to be ancient myself someday when I grow up. |
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Jun 29, 2017 7:57:43 GMT -5
Are you implying that I've grown up?
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Post by Mighty Darci on Jun 29, 2017 8:26:15 GMT -5
Are you implying that I've grown up? Not at all, just that I intend to, my mother expect it of me and I see no reason not to. It is likely different for men. |
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Jun 29, 2017 11:07:33 GMT -5
Pfaugh! I shall act my age when my mother acts hers, and not a moment prior. 😁
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Post by hengest on Aug 11, 2021 0:13:29 GMT -5
Bumping this interesting thread from some time ago. scottanderson, this is a very cool story. I suppose she is even older now four years later and I am curious about whether she still games or has ever gotten more back into reffing. There are a lot of posts about improvising on this board that maybe would be helpful for her to take a look at if she is ever interested, I mean largely material from The Perilous Dreamer about improvising and reffing and deciding things on the fly. And I am sure from some other posters as well, maybe we should do a compilation. |
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Post by scottanderson on Aug 11, 2021 1:07:46 GMT -5
My daughter is 17 and she still runs games. Now it's for her friends. They were gobsmacked when she ran the old rules and the old style rather than 5e, but they did it and they enjoyed it.
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Post by hengest on Aug 11, 2021 1:53:59 GMT -5
My daughter is 17 and she still runs games. Now it's for her friends. They were gobsmacked when she ran the old rules and the old style rather than 5e, but they did it and they enjoyed it. That's fantastic. Have an exalt for her! |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 11, 2021 9:39:46 GMT -5
My daughter is 17 and she still runs games. Now it's for her friends. They were gobsmacked when she ran the old rules and the old style rather than 5e, but they did it and they enjoyed it. Has she got back more to the winging it at least part of the time? |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 11, 2021 9:42:56 GMT -5
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Post by ironnerd on Aug 21, 2021 6:44:21 GMT -5
A six-year-old DM is pretty impressive. I gotta wonder if she is still into it.
I let my 11-year-old try her hand at DMing. It was "okay", but she actually needs to reign in her imagination a little. Also the rules don't make for interesting reading, so she has no use for them. It was a very wild ride in what we now refer to as the "Izzie-verse". In our current adventure (in the "Father-verse", because they are now way to old for the "Daddy-verse"), I am working on more problem-solving stuff to try to show Izzie that there is more to D&D than huge monsters and treasures too great to carry.
My older daughter played 5e at her school, but the mysterious virus put an end to that. Then she started at a new school with no D&D group. So we just play BECMI here at home. I would really love to see them continue playing and maybe even introduce their friends to D&D. It it truly impressive what flexing ones imagination can do for someone.
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Post by Traveroark on Sept 8, 2021 21:17:50 GMT -5
Nothing like playing D&D with kids and grand kids.
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My daughter the DM was born in 2004. She's been running game since since 2010. Amazing how good kids are at this stuff. 
