At Story Games, one of the users has chronicled his play sessions with his seven year old son, and it is beyond cute. It also gives a great sense of what there is to like about 4th ed.
So now he’s got two prisoners, and I’m all like “What the heck is he going to do with prisoners? Is there going to be horrific torture involved? Is he going to wring information out of them, then slaughter them? Kids can be dark … ”
Quoth D: “Are you good now?”
>Blink, blink<
“Uh … I don’t think we’re really … uh … good or evil. We’re just sorta … us.”
“Oh. Well I’ve decided you’re going to be good.”
“But that … that doesn’t actually make us good.”
“It will. I believe in you.”
Wow. His major adventure-genre influences have been Fantastic Four, Naruto and Avatar … but I didn’t realize he’d actually been listening.
So he took them back to Winterhaven. He said “You’re going to live here now, and you’re going to be good.” He spent all afternoon talking to extremely mistrustful villagers, convincing them to give these two guys a chance.