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.

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2.12 The Goodbye Episode – The Middle School Mind

As the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. After months of deliberation and soul-searching Father and Son publish their last and final episode of The Middle School Mind podcast. After nearly 18 months and over 35+ episodes, on this episode: We say goodbye to our listeners We talk about what's next for Son We hear from some of our past guests Of course we get a little silly And we play one last game So sit back, relax, grab the Kleenex and stick around for our very special goodbye episode. We think kid's voices are under represented in the podcast space. Even though we are leaving, we encourage you to visit Kids Listen. This organization is a grassroots organization of advocates for high-quality audio content for children. The Middle School Mind is a proud member of Kids Listen and, with our show ending, we encourage kids and families to find other interesting and engaging podcasts for kids. Through this adventure, we connected with the creator of Sound Carrot. This website was founded by a father/daughter team with the goal to help younger listeners find amazing children's podcasts. We hope this resource helps parents and kids find other kid's voices that you want to listen to and hear more from. We also believe that kids can create their own podcasts! Last summer we launched a three-part series encouraging kids to make their own kids' podcasts. You can find the episodes here: 1.20 Make Your Own Kid Podcast 1 1.21 Make Your Own Kid Podcast 2 1.22 Make Your Own Kid Podcast 3 Thank you to The Middle School Mind listeners and even our future listeners. We enjoyed making these episodes together and sharing them with you. This time was special for us and we will look back at this show as an amazing point in time where we talked about what was on Son's mind or relevant pop culture during this time. If you loved listening to the show and want to connect with us, e-mail us at: middleschoolmind.podcast@gmail.com. We are happy to connect if you want to talk about creating your own podcast for your child or, potentially, if you are interested in having your middle schooler take over The Middle School Mind, let's chat. We always knew that The Middle School Mind was going to last at most, 3 years, with Son and I. But amazing shows like Star Trek had Star Trek: The Next Generation and Saved By The Bell had Saved By The Bell: The New Class introduced a new cast of characters while providing new stories and fresh perspectives. It would be amazing to have a Mother/Daughter voice leading the show or a parent/child from a different part of the country or even a completely different country! It's the unique perspectives that help us all learn and appreciate each other. Enjoy The Goodbye Episode and thank you for being part of our show. Sincerely, Father & Son — Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themiddleschoolmind/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themiddleschoolmind/support