I haven't been able to get in as much gaming this holiday season as either I or the kids would have liked, largely because I haven't been able to prepare things. However, we did get to play through part of the Triple Ace Games adventure The Tale of the Fabulous Four. Luckily, there were actually six pre-generated characters supplied, since there were actually six kids playing. It's set in Boston in 1915 and is about a bunch of kids who overhear some criminals planning to steal a diamond and decide to thwart them.

The roster was:

• L.B. playing Nancy Hestletwain
• T.A. playing Lucius Munroe
• E.A. playing Samantha Hardcastle
• M.A. playing Oscar Whitfield
• T.B. playing Arthur Abrahams
• O.B. playing Brent Hardcastle

We played through Act 1 and Act 2, though I compressed much of Act 2 because we had a very limited amount of time for the session; I skipped Scene 3 entirely, and wrapped things up completely differently.

I was definitely off my game, and six screaming kids didn't help things — for some reason I had more trouble keeping them settled down and on track than usual.

There were some good moments, though, and I think the kids had fun.

As for the adventure itself, I had a few problems with it. I suspect that if I'd had more time to adapt it things would have gone better. Oh well.

We'll probably finish this off this summer, when T.B. and O.B. are back visiting.

The usual GM in my adult group wasn't available this month (for very good reasons), so I ran the “Dead Men Tell No Tales” one sheet for Pinnacle Entertainment Group's Savage Worlds based game Pirates of the Spanish Main for them. I had a lot of fun, and they seemed to enjoy it.

I really need to run more Fudge games. Fudge Bunnies & Burrows in particular.

I finally got to finish the Pirates of the Spanish Main one-sheet “Dead Men Tell No Tales” that I've been running for the kids.

E.A. and L.B. were both here for this one, so the roster was:

• T.A. playing Isaiah Kestrel, Captain of the Lady Faire
• E.A. playing Alice Pettigrew
• M.A. playing Scarred Jack
• L.B. playing Phelicity Gujon

Because we've had to split the adventure up over three sessions, and they'd finished the last one the skeletons, and I wanted a big start to this session, I told the kids their PCs had been arguing about what to do with the treasure and hanged lady for about an hour. They spent a few minutes talking about it, and then I had them make Notice rolls to avoid being surprised by the skeletons, reanimated after an hour. They picked up a few wounds in the fight, but managed to finish the skeletons off. T.A.'s bad luck with initiative cards and low rolls continued, though not as badly as before.

They then tried to figure out how they could free themselves of the curse and the skeletons, and decided the lady needed buried, which they proceeded to do, right outside the mine entrance. I had them make Strength roles to avoid becoming Fatigued, which a couple of the characters failed. And that finished out another hour, and a few minutes later the skeletons attacked again. M.A. failed Scarred Jack's Notice roll, so he didn't get dealt in the round, and got hit by the one of the skeletons. T.A. forgot to have Isaiah boast the first round, and ended up owing me a bennie. Eventually they killed the skeletons again, and decided, since the curse obviously hadn't been lifted, that they needed to bury the hanged lady in a cemetery at the church in town. Meanwhile, the weather was working up to a storm.

So, they dug the lady up, but in doing so T.A. and L.B. failed enough Strength rolls to fall unconscious (remember that the curse has been aging them rapidly), and they knew if they left the unconscious characters there they would be killed when the skeletons reanimated, so M.A. and E.A. had Jack and Alice pile the hanged lady's body on Isaiah and dragged them to the town. Unfortunately, part way through digging the new grave, E.A. failed Alice's Strength roll and fell unconscious. Jack was able to get her most of the way out of the grave, and finished burying the hanged lady with the six skeletons only 20 yards away and the zombie pirate captain only 60 yards away. (Apparently, the zombie pirate captain had been chasing them for days across the bottom of the sea). Unfortunately for our heroes, the rest of the crew, who'd been left on the sloop offshore, picked this moment to come ashore. Upon seeing the sorry state of their captain and officers (and failing their Spirit rolls, they were overcome by greed, whacked Jack on the head with the shovels, stole the map from their unconscious captain, and set off for the treasure.

The PCs awoke to a hurricane (which I'd earlier rolled using my weather die from Flying Buffalo), and found shelter in the church crypts. I actually wanted to end the adventure there, but the kids insisted we continue.

After a few days the weather finally subsided and they immediately headed back to the mine to look for the treasure. It was gone, except for a bent half-farthing piece that had been overlooked in a crack in the floor. At this point they were all suffering from Fatigue from not eating or drinking for days, and so they went back to the town to search for water. When T.A. failed a roll to avoid Fatigue, I ruled he'd gone delirious, wandered out on the dock, and falling into the water, to be washed out into the bay. L.B. had Phelicity swim out to save him, but by the time she reached him T.A. had failed his swimming roll and was drowning. Phelicity swam down and brought him to the surface and back to shore, but he had died. Luckily, M.A. tried to resuscitate, and failing the first roll spent a bennie (the last bennie among the group) to reroll, and aced well enough to overcome the –4 penalty from drowning and the –2 penalty from being untrained in Healing, and saved Isaiah.

At this point I pointed out Isaiah's consistent bad luck, loosing the treasure, loosing his ship, and Jack's comparative good luck, and like proper little pirates they voted Isaiah out as captain and Jack in. After that Jack climbed some palm trees and found some weird fruit so they could eat. I decided that the island had no living creatures at all, due to the curse, but that they could find enough edible plants so they wouldn't starve for the weeks it would take while they built a small boat (with both oars and a sail) from timber scavenged from the houses in the village to take them off the island to begin their search for their traitorous crew and their treasure.

And that's were we left them.

Since this actually ran pretty long, once all sessions were considered, I gave them all 5 XP. Not wanting T.A. to be too discouraged, I let him trade his “Captain” edge in for something else. I didn't let him buy off his “Cocky” Hindrance, though. Judging by everybody's reactions, I've got a Pirates of the Spanish Main campaign to run now. I can already see how to work the “Smuggler's Song” one-sheet in as the next adventure.

I ran another session using the the Pirates of the Spanish Main one-sheet “Dead Men Tell No Tales” with the kids.

E.A. couldn't attend, but L.B. could, so she played Phillipe Gujon and Alice Pettigrew, and out of deference to her dislike of playing “boys”, it was revealed that “Phillipe” was actually “Phelicity”!

So, the roster was:

• T.A. playing Isaiah Kestrel, Captain of the Lady Faire
• M.A. playing Scarred Jack
• L.B. playing (as her main character) Phelicity Gujon and (as her secondary character) Alice Pettigrew

We picked up a couple of days from the island on the map. Not liking the look of the decayed dock, they anchored offshore and left the crew to guard the sloop. On shore they found everybody 50 years dead. They easily found the mine, ignored the skeletons wrapped in pirate flags, and were shocked to find the lady hanging above the treasure in the depths of the mines. And of course, they were then attacked by the six skeletons wrapped in pirate flags.

T.A. was plagued by poor initiative card draws and low rolls, and earned the unhappy nickname “Captain Slowpants”, and eventually ended up “Captain Slow-anything”, much to his dismay. Eventually, however, they managed to kill the skeletons, and that's where the game ended. (We only had a short time to play.)

Some of the kids and I played through about half of the Pirates of the Spanish Main Savage Worlds one-sheet “Dead Men Tell No Tales” this afternoon and evening, before and after supper. This is one of the free downloads Pinnacle Entertainment Group did for the game.

The roster was:

• T.A. playing Isaiah Kestrel
• E.A. playing Alice Pettigrew and Phillipe Gujon
• M.A. played Scarred Jack

They found the dying pirate with the chest manacled to his foot, and after he died opened the chest and found the treasure map, and decided to head for the island. Along the way they found and boarded the decaying pirate ship, from which they deduced had come the dying pirate. They had a hard time with the zombie pirate captain wildcard, who had the luck of the initiative most of the time, ending up with the Joker three times, and the high card of the draw most of the rest of the time. The zombie wildcard incapacitated Alice with one blow that ended up doing five wounds at a whack, and things were looking dire. However, the zombie pirate captain's luck with the iniative cards finally left him However, E.A., rolling for the crew extras who showed up after hearing Alice scream as she went down, aced an attack roll, then aced all three of the damage dice, and then aced at least one of the rerolls, putting the wildcard down decisively. After that M.A. had Scarred Jack try an untrained Healing roll and aced it big time, so most of Alice's wounds got healed and M.A. wants Jack to learn Healing for real now, which is neat. After they returned to their ship the other ship collapsed and sank. They decided to continue to follow the treasure map, even though a storm came up. Alice was unconscious for four days. After couple of days it was obvious that they and their ship were suffering from the curse, and that's were we had to leave the game.

Lots of fun.

I ran the first part of the Savage Wolds fantasy one-sheet “Tomb of Terror” for the kids after we got done with farm work.

Around the table, starting with me as the GM at 6 o'lock, going clock-wise:

• M.A. played Gar IronHelm;
• E.A. played Merula Lanus;
• B.B. played Marcus Two Hands (when he wasn't helping out with baby C.A.);
• D.B. played Ramel Ramelson; and
• T.A. played Fox.

We got through the first encounter with very little difficulty, largely because I forgot the very important surprise packages the zombies had that should have gone off when they died, and then nearly had a TPK when I set them all off at once. They got to where they could hear the next encounter when we had to quit.

Maybe we can finish this at Thanksgiving.

I ran a short game of Buggin' with L.B., T.A., E.A., and M.A. Their bugs were at an opera premier (in a suitably rustic setting: the opera house was made of thick grass stalks covered with leaves, with doors of bark fragments) when some thugs tried to abduct a young lady VIP bug. They, of course, prevented it.

There's more to the story, but we didn't have time to take it any further. We'll pick it up again later.

My current local gaming group met again today for the first full session of play of the Rushing Valley Campaign, a new low magic, real people D&D campaign, as a group of friends just becoming adults. Lots of fun.

Here's the actual play report.

This was the second, and concluding, session in T.A.'s Savage Worlds game. L.B. was in from Kentucky and B.B. and D.B. were down from Morgantown, so along with T.A., E.A., and M.A. we had a full table. Moreover, M.B., who is B.B. and D.B.'s much younger brother, also wanted to play. He's a bit too young to understand how the game works, though, so it was a bit frustrating for him and the others. We worked through it and it turned out ok.

T.A. GMed. E.A. played Eureka, the healer. L.B. played Alisia, an archer. D.B. played Surt, the combat mage. I played Loki, the sneaky guy, sharing him with M.B.. M.A. played Ragnar, the wizard. and B.B. played Fritz, an archer.

We decided we had gone back to town after the previous session and picked up a couple of friends. We easily finished off the rest of the goblin clan, picking up a couple more invented-on-the-spot magic items. We continued to have it in for the dire wolves, and Ragnar exploded a couple of them with his magic. The villagers were glad to be freed from the goblin raiding and gladly paid us as they had promised.

I've found that, for an abstract game that can take place just in your head, there can be a lot of tacticle fun to RPGs. Rolling dice and moving miniatures are the obvious ones, but there are others. Gaming tokens (glass “stones” ) are used by many games and gamers, either as a component of the system or informally by the gamers for marking various things. Some games, like Savage Worlds, use cards. Miniatures terrain, whether three-dimensional, printed tiles, or simply drawn or a battlemat, adds a lot, and not just to the visual aspects of the game. Cards that represent character states, like buff and condition cards for D&D, or the effects of spells, or cards that have monster or spell stats, are also neat and passing them around adds to the fun of the game. Drawing maps for the games, drawing a scene out on a battle map, and making handouts can all be tactile fun, and then handing out the maps and other handouts to players so they have the fun at looking at them and passing them around and pulling them out when they suddenly realize what they're really showing them.

All of these things can add a great deal of fun to RPGs.

James Maliszewski points out that D&D always had “mook” rules:

Under OD&D, a fighting man can attack a number of times equal to his level when facing foes of 1 Hit Die or lower. This rule carried over into AD&D in modified form, with multiple attacks being allowed only against foes of less than 1 Hit Die.

I'd completely forgotten that, if I ever knew. That's tremendously interesting.

I got to run the “Eternal Nazi” one sheet for Savage Worlds again, for adults this time.

It went ok, I guess. It ran much longer this time, probably for several reasons:

1. I added a new encounter to it.
2. It was the first time the players had played Savage Worlds, and to complicate things they were each playing two characters.
3. I was not at my best. (Too little sleep, too much stress elsewhere in my life.)

I think I'm going to run this for yet another group, so I'll discuss the specifics of my changes to the adventure then.

The new maps did make things a little more interesting, although the design of one did provide a great deal of advantage to the PCs. I'll have to rethink that.

I should really sit down and come up with some better tactics for the BBEG.

I was not at my best, so I kept forgetting the simpliest things, and I know I actually made a couple of serious errors with the rules. You'd think that since I've been playing Savage Worlds for a while I would remember. In my defense, I was using a couple of sections of the rules that I'd only used once before. Still, I need to get more rest before I GM something!

Well, I certainly got in a lot of gaming this weekend!

Today was D&D: my nephew D.B. D.M.ed the concluding session of our run through the Wizards of the Coast adventure “Scourge of the Howling Horde”. Great fun was had by all. I especially enjoyed being a player rather than D.M. Kids attending were L.B., D.B., T.A., E.A., and M.A.

Version 6 of the Savage Worlds Test Drive has everything you need to learn how to play Savage Worlds in 13 colorful pages (not counting the front and back covers, but counting the full-sized character sheet.)

The kids I game with get mentioned a lot. Right now they're my daughter and niece and nephews. I'm really lucky to have such a great bunch of kids around to play games.

L.B.

is my daughter.

My brother C.P.B. about an hour away, so his kids get to play regularly.

B.B.

is in his mid-teens and is the oldest of the bunch, which means I've been experimenting on him the longest. ( I hope it hasn't hurt too much. )

They have a much younger brother, M.B., who doesn't play roleplaying games yet, but will before too long, I hope.

D.B.

is his younger brother, and at 11 is the next oldest.

My sister C.I.A.'s kids live on the family farm, next door to me, and along with my daughter get to play the most.

T.A.

is the oldest boy.

E.A.

is his younger sister.

M.A.

is their younger brother and is the youngest of my regular gamers. He can't read yet, but has fun playing anyway.

The new baby boy is C.A., and I'm already looking forward to when he joins the gaming group.

My brother N.A.B. lives far out of state, and so his kids only get to play on summer and winter vacations when they come and visit the family farm.

T.B.

is N.A.B.'s oldest son.

O.B.

is his younger brother, and has played Buggin' with us a couple times, and will play the other games more as he gets older.

I'm going to try online gaming with a map tool and either a chat inteface or a voice interface when the kids are a little bit older, so the ones that are farther away can get to play more often.

I've run a lot of games for the kids; Fudge Bunnies and Burrows, BESM Dungeon, Toon, Buggin', D&D, Savage Worlds, and perhaps others.

I find, when I've got little time or energy, that it is very easy to fall back to hack-n-slash and dungeon crawling as the default types of adventures to present for my players. Admittedly, these days I'm running mostly for kids who are happy to play in the intersection of those styles. Actual “roleplaying” happens mostly as the result of serendipitous inspiration from in-game events (witness the cuirbouilli armor).

I generally carry way too much stuff around to games. I'm trying to minimize it all, and here are some ways I've found or will be trying.

If you are running a system that doesn't focus on battlemat-oriented tactical play, or the evening's adventure doesn't require that style of play, you don't probably don't have much to carry to the nights game: maybe just a single rulebook, your notes, and your dice.

If you are using a battlemat and miniatures, you can cut down on what you have to carry around.

• Just the core rulebook.

  Just needing to carry one small rulebook makes things much easier. Savage Worlds: Explorer's Editon and Big Eyes, Small Mouth score high here, as does Rules Cyclopedia D&D and, given the pamphlet size and low page count of the three core books, Original D&D.

• Use flat paper figures and separate bases.

  I've never been one for painting miniatures, unfortunately, but I have found that part of the fun of many roleplaying games is moving miniatures around on a battlemat. (The kids like them too.)

  Now that color printers that print on cardstock are cheap, paper miniatures are practical and good looking. But how do you transport them? It's great that they're way lighter than metal or plastic miniatures, but if you actually cut out and glue up the common triangle-from-the-top and triangle-from-the-side they still take up a good bit of space, too much to take on a business trip, for instance, and they're easily crushed. The “T”-from-the-side paper miniatures can sometimes be folded at the crossbar of the “T”, but they tend to get bent when carried together. If you don't glue the paper minatures you can carry them flat, but using paper clips to hold them in their triangular or “T” shapes it is just too fiddly and time consuming.

  So, what I recently started doing was cutting out and gluing together just the front and backs. This gives me flat, stiff standups that can be easily stored in an envelope, but that together with separate plastic bases provide nice good looking 3d miniatures. The plastic bases themselves are sturdy and can be transported in a small bag; even a hundred of them can fit in my computer bag without taking much space. And the flat standups in an envelope travel easily without being crushed or bent.

  • At some point I should try counters, like Fiery Dragon's Counter Collections, which have the complete D&D 3.5E SRD monsters covered.

• Put all needed opponents/monsters on index cards.

  I recently got a printer that can print directly on cardstock and 3×5" cards, and I love being able to carry around the opponents and deal out just the ones I need for the current encounter. It greatly reduces papershuffling in the middle of encounters, too, and cuts down on the amount of junk on the table between you and the players. And you can carry them on in a shirt pocket on a pinch.

  • Don't forget stock opponents.

    Having a collection of stock opponents to fall back on really helps. Sometimes just shuffling the 3×5" cards gives me ideas.

• Flip Mats and dry-erase markers for battlemats

  I got two of Steel Sqwire's original Flip-Mat™ battlemats. They've got 1 inch squares on one side and 1 inch hexes on the other side, and they fold up flat to 8×10 inches and unfolded are 24×30 inches. Two of these fit in my computer bag without bulking it up noticably, and work wonderfully with dry-erase pens. (No more stains from wet-erase remains!) The only problems is that since they fold, they have creases, and don't lay pefectly flat. However, I've used these with paper miniatures and unless someone slaps something down in the middle of mat or really jars the table things are pretty stable and the miniatures don't fall down.

• Printed Cardstock Tile Terrain instead of battlemats

  I recently bought a bunch of PDF printable terrain tiles from Skeleton Key Games. They make nice looking terrain and they are all standardized shapes that I can print on cardstock on an inexpensive inkjet printer and cut out. Since they're all the same size and shape they stack flat and since they're cardstock you can easily carry them in a standard 6½x9½ manilla envelope, and two or three envelopes easily carry enough for an evening's play. The disadvantages are that tiles sometimes curve, which tends to lead to the tiles moving around more as they're laid and played on.

  As a side node, the various tile sets published by Wizards of the Coast for use with D&D, Star Wars, and the associated miniatures battle games have a great graphical appears and are very heavy, sturdy solid cardboard (not corragated), so they make a great battlemat. Unfortunately, they're all different sizes which makes it difficult to pack them compactly, and the thick cardboard which makes them so stable in play also makes them surprisingly bulky. (And I can never figure out easily if I've actually collected up all the pieces after the game.)

  2008-08-20 01:29:26: I'm still undecided as to whether these are slower and less convenient than the Flip-Mats. They do look neat, though.

Stones/bennies/chips/status chips, playing cards, etc.

Saturday after the 4th I ran another Savage Worlds game for the kids. This time it was The Secret of Smuggler's Cove, lightly adapted for the Savage Worlds: Explorer's Edition.

Attending were:

• L.B., playing Amy and Josiah
• T.A., playing Billy and David
• E.A., playing Catherine
• M.A., playing Devlin

The PCs in this adventure are all kids, and T.A. wasn't any too happy that none of the characters had any weapons more effective than a slingshot! Still, they all had fun with the first two sections of the adventure. In the first they raced small sailboats, and they managed to split the characters up so that all the characters run by the two boys were in one boat and all the characters run by the two girls were in the other boat, and each had fun taunting and distracting the others. I ran it as a chase and let good taunts and distractions affect the Boating rolls of the two captains, and I let every success and raise on the Boating roll move the boat one range increment forward [1], which may not be strictly by the book, but did allow for dramatic changes in position. The girls won on the last Boating roll, and then it was time to eat a picnic lunch. They observed the thug hide the map and papers, dug them up, figured out the notes were in German, reburied them, followed the man who picked them up back to Rydel Mount & figured out that he was the gardener, headed back home (very, very, late), saw the Gypsies cooking fire beyond the old Roman fort & traipsed over to see what was happening.

Another of the roleplaying games I played over the July 4th holiday was Buggin', . This game had T.B. as a scorpion named Scorp; T.A. as Dragon the dragonfly; M.A. as a pillbug, Bill the Pill; my borther A.B. and his youngest O.B. teamed up to run Bob the cyborg grasshopper [2]; E.A. as an Aunty the Ant; and L.B. as Maria the bee. Several of these characters had been played in earlier games of Buggin'.

The characters, having done some troubleshooting for the local ant colony in the past, were assigned to find out why communication with a neighboring ant colony had stopped. They escaped an Ant Lion trap, lots of fun was had with the ant lion throwing sand at the PCs and the flying PCs trying to rescue the non-flying ones who'd fallen in the trap. They made a new trail around the trap and moved on. They found the neighboring ant colony deserted, passed through the strangely rectangular rooms and corridors of the lowest levels, found the huge cubic room and black floating rectangular monolith, climbed up the ledges and across the bridge and passed oddly through the black monolith, to find themselves huge jellyfish-like creatures floating in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter, where they set about building cities for new homes, along with lots of other jellyfish-like creatures.

And then they woke up, and found themselves back to normal and remembering the Ant Lion trap as the only problem with other colony. And then they woke up, and they were Jellyfish Colonists on Jupiter again. And so forth.

Some of the kids thought this was funny, and others thought it was just strange. M.A. thought it was really neat.

L.B. was very worried that those characters would be constantly flipping back and forth between being Jellyfish Colonists on Jupiter whenever they went to sleep, so I assured her that it was just for this one game.

My brother who lives out of state usually comes in from out-of-state twice a year, once during the summer and once at Christmas. One of his sons is old enough to play Savage Worlds these days, and since I'd given him, along with rest of the kids who were old enough, their own copies of the Savage Worlds: Explorer's Edition I wanted to make sure we got to play some roleplaying games while they were in town, especially Savage Worlds.

Running for kids is a lot different than running for adults. One of the kids is in his middle teens, but the rest of them are under 11 and one is 6. They're very enthusiastic when they're interested, but if things slow down the younger ones (literally) wander off until things speed up again. They also have sometimes have a little difficulty switching between the neat stuff that is happening and the mechanical stuff we're using to make the neat stuff happen, which can make things take longer than it should. They all enjoy it, though, and it's definitely worth doing.

Sometime I'd like to make some character sheets specifically for the younger kids who don't read very much yet, with pictures of, for instance, their sword and the dice they need to roll to attack and do damage with it.

One of my nephews is very into a particular collectable card game, and we didn't get a chance to play it this summer. Maybe at the Winter gathering.

We got to play Toon a week before the July 4th holiday week.

One of the things I'm trying to do this summer is to actually run and play more roleplaying games. I play every month or so with an adult group, though that has slowed down during the summer due to scheduling conflicts, and usually play once every month or two with my daughter and my niece and nephews, but I'd like to play or run more often.

I'd like to run a game for the kids every weekend, but I figure that will be difficult to achieve. We'll see. All but one of the kids is 11 or younger, and one who plays occasionally (depending on what game we're playing) is 6; the older one is in his mid-teens. I've been playing RPGs with them (and occasionally their parents) on and off for several years, starting with FUDGE Bunnies & Burrows. Some of the kids have played when some of they were 5 years old or even younger; at that age I have the kids roll dice and handle all the rules work myself; it works great. When I run things I generally try to keep things age-appropriate for the youngest in the group. They've all played video games and are familiar with common fantasy and science fiction tropes from the games.

Over a couple of years we've played Big Eyes, Small Mouth (2nd Edition Revised) a lot, and Bugging', and D&D some, and Savage Worlds a lot. A couple of the older kids have run D&D and Savage Worlds adventures for me, one from a commercial module that was a present and another other using dungeons built with Legos and Lego figures as miniatures. We've played through BESM Dungeon and several Savage Worlds adventures (including some of the free adventures and some of the Savage Tales pdfs) and are working our way through a couple of D&D adventures.

It's hard to schedule time with all the kids together at the same time as I have free time, and there's no telling before hand when the next time we'll be able to play will be, so I tend to run adventures as short campaigns. I've never gotten to run a long campaign. BESM Dungeon and the currently running D&D adventure The Sunken Citadel (updated for 3.5E) have probably been the longest running games. I'd like to run Evernight or 50 Fathoms for them some time.

I'd also like to run more board games: I've still never played Settlers of Catan, despite having it for a couple of years.

I ran the first example adventure from GURPS Bunnies & Burrows, “The Herbmaster's Plea”, p. 94, for my nephew B.B. using Fudge. [1] He successfully rescued Rosin. Ended up in the Orchard on the way to the bean field, after a run-in with the thugs. They did manage to gather some vegetables as they fled. It looks like I named the captain of the Owsla Bayberry.

I think this was the first time I ran a roleplaying game for one of the kids. I ran at least four Fudge Bunnies & Burrows for B.B. and various of the kids and their parents.