My friends DMs our game, and he came up with a cool system. He lets players spend whatever money they want on training. When they do this, they get the exp instead. I like it for two reasons. First, it gives them a choice. Do you want the gold or the exp? Second, it has led to interesting party dyna...

Almost forgot to actually answer the idea of this thread! We now use multiple characters for new players. They start with , and usually get one to survive long enough to level up and become a more equal member of the party. We also let the players either take over NPCs, if available, or just roll up...

When my friend and I started playing with our kids last year, they adapted to death really well. Maybe it's party of the video game respawn mechanic; they were disappointed for only about a minute, then made new characters. The beauty of the minute creation! We then just had the new characters pop u...

We recently started a game for our kids, and BF had been perfect. I got my first taste as DM the other day, just to give my buddy a break, and because the kids really wanted to play, and he wasn't ready. I didn't really have time to prep either, so I just pulled out an old magazine, Dungeon#1. I use...