Mouselings- Child's first adventuring party

[odinsgrandson]

I have a three year old little girl (she'll soon be four) and she has a good imagination.  Naturally, we'd like to steer this in the right direction, so I've been GMing once a week with my family.  Right now it is just a homebrew system that we're keeping quite simple.  We'll be moving up as we go.

Our first hero is Drella.  Her character class is definitely Princess, and while her normal tactic is to use either scorching ray or fireball, she also tends to pull a sword out of hammer space when things get rough.

And this is Ella, my wife's spellcaster.  She's very helpful on adventures

Last is Prince McGuffin.  He mostly gets kidnapped by ogres, sorcerers, dragons and such.  

Our heroes have noted his aptitude for being captured, and have started keeping him from going out by himself for any reason.

Last time our heroes sallied forth, they started out by locking him in a closet until they come back.

 

I expected this campaign to mostly feel standard (we kill the monsters, save the prince and everyone is happy).  But then my little girl realized that some of the monsters can talk- and if they can talk, they can be talked into doing things for them.

My favorite was when they convinced an ogre that the dragon would be tastier than eating them, so he came along (all the time threatening to become too bored or hungry and start eating the party).

Here are the three of them together.

[Guildenstern]

That.. is awesome!

 

Love playing with my kids - although they can be quite hard to keep on track (mine are older and competitive) but they also do come up with ideas you'd never think of. It sounds like you're off to a great start with your daughter! She's obviously got a great imagination.

 

Also, just have to say - I adore mouselings! The eyes are really good on yours especially. I usually try to paint them more like human, now I realize that doesn't really fit them. I like the way you did it better. I may well steal that idea!

[RustAndTheCity]

Very cool. Great to see people involving their kids in their hobbies.

I love the people gem on the staff. 

[odinsgrandson]

That.. is awesome!

 

Love playing with my kids - although they can be quite hard to keep on track (mine are older and competitive) but they also do come up with ideas you'd never think of. It sounds like you're off to a great start with your daughter! She's obviously got a great imagination.

 

Also, just have to say - I adore mouselings! The eyes are really good on yours especially. I usually try to paint them more like human, now I realize that doesn't really fit them. I like the way you did it better. I may well steal that idea!

Thanks.

I think I decided to do the eyes this way based on the way Dark Sword's painters do their critters line (he guinea pigs are so cute).  The eyes really work when they match the cute little animals.