A Metaphor For Life? Maybe a little

We began playing a module from DragaonsFoot called, "Halls of Chaos" just yesterday.  It's one of those rare times that I play a published module rather than just write my own.  I like this one a lot so far.  Lots of common elements and style.

Go to town, posse up, gear up, go get the bad guys, get the loot.

I experienced a realization though during the game that made everything come to a sudden stop.  My son still hasn't learned how to strategize in-game yet.  When we first started playing, my oldest daughter, my son and I were playing, I as the DM.

As I look back on things though,  my daughter always took the leadership of the party though.  My son became more of a responsive player.  Now my daughter has "fallen out" with AD&D but my son still maintains an interest.  So I am running games for him and toss in a few NPC's to help him fill party number requirements.

Yesterday however, after watching him totally disregard his ranger's, acting as a scout, advice about concerns with something in the road, I think I figured out what's wrong.

He's still being a reactive player and not thinking like a leader.  He's not pro-active and he doesn't plan or strategize utilizing the resources, both people and weapons he has at hand.

So, I put the game down and started discussing the resources he had available to him.  What characters were there, what were their specialties, their strengths, etc...Next we looked at other resources available such as weapons and magic items, etc...

I think I finally started getting him to see that it was up to him as the leader of the pack, so to speak, to plan, assign tasks and duties, strategize and organize.

We'll see how it goes from here.

Hello again

Yes,  I know I've been away for a while.  Haven't had any games going on for awhile.  Life happens.  kids getting older.  Some becoming disinterested, some just adjusting to new things.

For me,  it's usually bees or the bee club that takes my attention.

Right now, only my son has any interest to continue gaming and he has a lot of things on table right now so it's sporadic at best that we get to play.

As for me,  I spend most of my 1E interest time trying to come up with adventures to share with others who might them interesting.  Create enchanted items that are awesome and characters who are equally awesome and can be dropped into any 1E/OSRIC game.

So, I will try to post more frequently here to share things that I think are cool to game with and maybe someone else will think so also.

Let me know in the comments as we go along.