Playing DnD with the family … /u/ClownfishSoup DnD: Roll for Initiative!

So I ran an Old School Essentials introductory game for my wife and my two teen daughters, one of which already plays a bit of 5e. The 5e daughter is like “I hide in shadows, now I’m going to flank” … I’m like “uh, OK, but um… there’s not really any flanking”.

To make life easier, I gave them all a different colored sets of dice and told them to pass their d20 to the person on the left so that the d20 was obvious.

The absolute highlight of the game. My wife is about to attack a goblin, so I’m like “OK, roll the 20 sided dice to see if you hit!”, so my wife rolls and them proudly announces “I rolled a sixty one!”

LOL! Both girls burst out laughing … though the 19 still hit the goblin …

So I ran an Old School Essentials introductory game for my wife and my two teen daughters, one of which already plays a bit of 5e. The 5e daughter is like “I hide in shadows, now I’m going to flank” … I’m like “uh, OK, but um… there’s not really any flanking”.

To make life easier, I gave them all a different colored sets of dice and told them to pass their d20 to the person on the left so that the d20 was obvious.

The absolute highlight of the game. My wife is about to attack a goblin, so I’m like “OK, roll the 20 sided dice to see if you hit!”, so my wife rolls and them proudly announces “I rolled a sixty one!”

LOL! Both girls burst out laughing … though the 19 still hit the goblin …