Now, in her defense, my other players were a bit enthusiastic with the minis too, but now they've learned how to count squares, and that nine times out of ten its better just to let the DM move things.
#LIKE GROWLY NOTES BUT FREE FULL#
If I ever run a game where I have possessed monsters, I'll be sure to give Scooby full access to show how that little goblin flies sixty feet across the room in only one turn. With Scooby the Red at the table, there's a five year old who wants to ruin every single tactical advantage by grabbing each figurine on the battlemat and doing the Charleston across the dungeon floor with them. I run grid based combat in the typical 3.5 edition style - flanking rules, two squares minimum for a charge, attacks of opportunity- its hard to beat that mentality out of me after using it with good results. and papa doesn't have deep enough pockets to buy more legos.Īfter six sessions, the kiddos still have problems leaving my miniatures alone. Now legos have been seen as a promising endeavor, but they've lost half the building blocks in the sofa and only have humanoid lego minifigs. I wish my minis had the facial expressions of some of those toys, but when your facial room is about the size of half an eraser, something's gotta give. All of my D&D miniatures are to-scale as well, sacrificing detail for conformity across the standard. but I don't have a lot of happy townsfolk in my games, nor do I have four foot tall ponies. Thinking intelligently, this actually is a useful idea for a DM. I've also had to deal with requests to use their own toys as minis. Each session would have to begin with another half hour dive into the minis bag, and almost every time they've had a different choice to use for their character! They took hours to finally settle on what they want, and if I don't set what they have aside I end up shooting myself in the foot. I had forgotten how much young girls enjoy playing with their tiny pieces of plastic, and now that they had full access to over two hundred different characters instead of just a few dozen ponies or Barbies, they went into overdrive. But the Growly Goats™? They went berserk! Most players are like, "eh, give me that dude with the shield," or I've heard "He looks like a spellcaster, I'll use him." As long as it wasn't too far off from their character concept, everyone was content with what I had if they didn't bring their own. I'm getting off topic here.Īnyway, when I finally had decided "get serious" about running a campaign with my kids (Yes, I said get serious about a game with kids), I let them first make a character, and then pick a mini as their avatar. Actually, I still can use them, they're just detached from the bases they came with. but I've also purchased a few sets of MageKnight figures, and I'd say, oh, 90% of all of those have split in half. Some are missing arms and weapons, but the majority of them are intact- WotC did a decent job on their D&D line. Even though I spent a sizable sum on these plastic figures, I've chucked my entire collection into a zippered bag and just let them roll around however they felt like. probably about five hundred dollars worth of them.
I've collected them in a huge dosage whenever WotC released the sets of miniatures in 2003. Yes, I said that in caps, and I used such a strong word to describe how the Growly Goats™ feel about my minis. Today's point of positive discussion has been in lieu of miniatures, and the fact that my kids LOVE them. If it wasn't for her continual prodding of what I was doing, I probably wouldn't be playing this game either, and I can say I appreciate all her enthusiasm and enjoyment of every roll of the dice. She's also the one who is continually asking me when I'm going to run another game, is the one who has the most memories of our campaign. She always is looking for something to do, and is always trying to talk to an NPC. Childish excitement aside, Risk is the most engaged player in my campaign. If she can roll high enough, I'll allow the paralyzing blow on a male NPC, but most of the time we don't see 19s or 20s. Perhaps its some tie to Internet Rule 30. Here and there it'll switch up to "I kick him in the crotch!" As a girl, I don't know why she assumes every one of my NPCs on the battlefield, monsters included, are male, or even possess genitals. If you're been reading my blog this long, you've seen the subheading that refers to "crotch-punches." Risk was the first one to establish this phrase, and its extended to her younger sister Scooby.
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