Episode 1.13 Dungeons & Dragons Newbie

On this episode of The Middle School Mind podcast for kids and tweens, Son talks about his interest in Dungeons & Dragons and his first-time experience playing D&D.

We talk about what Dungeons & Dragons is and how you can work with your party to build a new world and see how your character and your character’s choices play out throughout the game.

This Dungeons & Dragons podcast is perfect for kids, tweens and middle school age kids who are interested in the game and would like to understand how the game is played and ways to play either in-person or remotely.

We talk about in-person versus web-based game play and we can’t just can’t stop talking about Jeff Bezos.

What is Dungeons & Dragons?

Define your character – your race, class, abilities
Son’s character was a Ranger Elf

Artist rendition of Elf Rangers characters that Son chose to play as in his first D&D campaign — Elf Rangers are pretty classic Dungeons & Dragons characters. Check out this great artist rendition courtesy of blackcitadelrpg.com.

Rolling Dice Explained…Sort Of

What does the dice do for us?
I think we need a refresher on statistics and probabilities.

Image of a Dungeons & Dragons player holding up a 20-sided die. This player rolled seven nat 20's in a row in a very lucky stretch of gaming! — Hard-drive.net featured an incredibly lucky DND’er who rolled seven nat 20’s in a row. Image courtesy of hard-drive.net.

Son describes his first time playing D&D

Played online via text through Discord

Screen shot of text-based Dungeons & Dragons campaign highlightint the various players cooperating on a D&D campaign. — Image of text-based Dungeons & Dragons game courtesy of realmsmith.tv.

Game play in-person versus online

Son enjoyed his text-based D&D game
Part of the Dungeons & Dragons experience, however, is working collaboratively with your party and with the Dungeon Master
Plus, the decisions and outcomes all hinge on the roll of the dice and being in person gives it the excitement like at a craps table

Check out this pros and cons video from The DM Lair talking about in-person vs. online Dungeons & Dragons.

WWJBD – What Would Jeff Bezos Do?

This episode’s sponsorship plea
What Would Jeff Bezos Do in D&D

Screen shot of Amazon Games' New World open sandbox game. Amazon has gone to great lengths to prevent users using the name of Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos. This screen shot is a clever work-around one user found around that. — Amazon Games developed an open sandbox game, New World, and tried really hard to prevent players from creating characters with the names “Amazon” or “Bezos”. Some clever person got around that with this New World character, Geoff Bay-Sos. Clever! Image courtesy of screenrant.com.

Thank you to all of our listeners!

Thank you for all your support. Please like and subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music or your favorite podcast provider.

Please keep listening, please drop us a positive comment on our About Us page and let us know what you like and what you want to hear us talk about in the future.

For more episodes of The Middle School Mind podcast, check out our latest podcasts below

Bonus Episode: 1.1 Hello World! Relisten – The Middle School Mind

In this bonus episode of The ⁠Middle School Mind⁠ podcast, Father and Son take a listen back to our very first episode, Hello World when he was early in his 6th grade year as a fresh-faced middles schooler. It's a fun way to poke fun and reminisce about our time making the podcast. This is the final, final episode of The Middle School Mind podcast and thank you to all who were part of this amazing ride. For all you middle school kids out there listening to us. You can make your own podcast easily. You guys have amazing ideas and get your voices out there!