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#1 balkan72 Aug 25, 2014 13:42:58	Hi -    I am interested in getting started playing the 5e with my kids.  Sorry for what I'm sure is a silly question, but I have both ther the Starter Set and Hoard of the Dragon Queen, and I am wondering how to approach them given that they both start at Level 1.  So, when my kids finish the Starter Kit adventure (Lost Mine), they will have advanced past Level 1.  Should they then ditch their characters and start again with new characters at Level 1 for Hoard? Or would it work to just use the older higher-level characters?  Thanks!   Alex
#2 alienux Aug 25, 2014 17:36:21	I'm actually doing The Lost Mines of Phandelver with my wife and kids right now. The kids want to do Hoard afterward. I just told them that they could use their same characters, but that it would be too easy early on, and they decided that they'd rather make new characters. They actually like the idea of getting to make new characters with a different race and class for variety. I'd say it just depends on how you and your kids want to approach it.
#3 balkan72 Aug 26, 2014 6:07:09	Makes sense - thanks!
(Reply to #3) Jharii	I am going to run Lost Mine and Horde concurrently, halving the XP for the first several adventures until they are "caught up."  This will allow both storylines to happen without the need to modify anything but the XP.  The tricky part is the location of each module, in which I have decided to relocate Lost Mine to where Horde takes place.   I am hoping for some interesting plot hooks to reveal themselves as we go along, as the PCs will be interacting with the NPCs in both modules, which could cause some interesting repercussions.
#5 KaribouOfDoom Aug 26, 2014 11:36:58	Related question -- how old are your kids?  I'm a mom and I've often thought about when I'd let my daughter join in the fun.
#6 TyrusGreycloak Aug 26, 2014 12:29:06	i play with my 3 daughters, soon to be 8 year old twins and a 5 year old.  It is a ton of fun.  It is a very "basic" session we run.  I say stuff like "you want to cast a spell?" they say "yes", i say "fire spell, ice spell, or magic missile".  they like rolling the dice and they actually remember parts of the story.  My one twin is palying a wizard and she started the session by saying "i hope we find Glasstaff and take his stuff this time!"  The 5 year old will get bored and not play for a bit, so i gave her a horse that she can ride back into battle when she feels like it.  All of this much to my wife's chagrin.
#7 alienux Aug 26, 2014 13:14:11	KaribouOfDoom wrote:
#8 KaribouOfDoom Aug 26, 2014 14:39:03	Oh, excellent!  I have 10-year old twins and I've bounced around the notion of playing a very simple game with them.  My son (who's autistic) loves fantasy video games and might actually engage for short periods of time.  He's verbal, but his speech is very disordered.  Having him talk in the social setting of a game would be very therapeutic. His twin sister (not autistic) thinks dragons should be pets.  She brings my old monster manuals to school to read with her friends, lol.   You've made me brave enough that I will have to try this soon, once start-of-school stuff has settled down!
#9 alienux Aug 27, 2014 6:12:58	KaribouOfDoom wrote:
#10 Inaubryyn Aug 27, 2014 22:24:02	balkan72 wrote: