Happy Father’s Day from Goodman Games! We know that a lot of dads are gamers—and we know that dads can’t resist sharing their favorite hobby with their kids! If you are a dad running a game today, or if you are running a game for your dad, we thought that it might be a good idea to pull this article from our archives to share with all of you. Harley Stroh provides some advice on running DCC games for kids from his own personal experience. We hope that every father out there has an amazing day—and we hope that you get to game as a part of it! Enjoy! Goodman Games: Tell us about your gaming group and how it got started. Harley Stroh: A few years back I started a local game with a friend and his boys. At the time the older boy was in sixth grade and his brother was a third grader. Word about the game got out, and we added a few more kids from school, and then another dad. That morphed into a monthly game held at the local library. Our current group is two fathers and as many as eight kids, schedules permitting. Ages range from 10 to 42. We’re now in our second year of running public DCC games at the library. GG: Did the players have any RPG experience before joining the group? HS: We have one player who runs a 5th ed game for his friends, and the dads played AD&D back in the day. Otherwise, this was everyone’s first tabletop RPG. Fortunately, the character tropes of D&D are so ubiquitous in video games that D&D-like RPGs are second nature to them. You don’t have to spend a lot of time explaining the strengths and weaknesses of the wizard, how to play a thief, or why the warrior has the most hit points. GG: So why run games for kids? HS: It’s partly selfish: I’ve seldom been as surprised by players as when I’m running for kids. They’re not constrained by what a “D&D” game should be like, so they come up with insanely creative (and often improbable) solutions to challenges. Judging is most fun when the players keep us on our toes, and that is never more true than when gaming with kids. The more important piece is...