Dipping into the Red – A Red Box Holiday Story

So I got a text message the other night. I am thinking of braving the hordes and picking up the red box for Kara. It was my friend Brandon. We had been talking the other week about how Kara really wanted to play some more of the table top World of Warcraft game that we did some time ago. I told Brandon that I had started to get ideas on how to convert WoW class abilities into the new DnD Essentials format. he thought the idea was good, but he kind of wanted to disassociate WoW with other gaming. So I told him about the Red Box.

Before I continue, let me talk about Kara. Kara is Brandon's 9 year old daughter. And gaming is in her blood. Her father has been a gamer since grade school, as well as her mother, Kate. Kate has been playing D&D as well for some time, and is an active LARPer. Kate's husband, Garret  is also a heavy gamer and LARPer. Kara has been raised around gaming since she was crawling still. She loves Gromlock from Transformers: The Movie. (Yes the 1980s movie). She bleeds d4s, while her mother insists that she only bleeds d2s.

She loves playing hunters on WoW because of the pets. I ran a WoW based adventure for Kara, Brandon, and my roommate Joel one night. Kara played a hunter who's pet was a Pegasus (yeah a little much, but you have to keep kids interested somehow). They started out in Northshire and they had to take care of a kobold problem in a cave nearby. I even had the kobalds saying their trademark fighting words, " You no take candle!" They only made it through only half of the adventure, but for the past few months its always been on something on Kara's mind. Every time Kara would be staying with Brandon at his house she would ask him when I was going to run that WoW game with the miniatures again. Each time with an eager grin on her face, full of that childish excitement.

It was black Friday when I texted Brandon back, Do you want me to head over to Barnes and Nobles now to pick it up for you? I'm already here in town.