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Today was our first full session of gaming with our four kids.  At the beginning of the day, everyone chose one game from our shelves and we wrote all those choices on an index card and put them in a hat, from which the game we would play that day would be chosen.

Three votes for "Red Box" D&D, Three votes for Lego Games: Ramses Pyramid.  I drew D&D out of the hat (which made me happy, though I would've been content with the Lego game also).

We had an unexpected fifth player when my daughter's friend came over, but it resulted in a new D&D convert, so all is well.  

I decided to run the solo adventure in which you create your character as a group endeavor to get all the kids familiar with creating characters, rolling dice, and making choices.  The kids had fun during