Tl;dr: Kia ora all! I don’t often post much about my personal life, but as a parent of two neurodiverse teens, I reckoned that I’d post some of my experience in gaming here on our journey. My daughter was diagnosed with autism almost a year ago and my son is dyslexic/dysgraphia with ADHD like presentation. Both are incredibly bright and very different from each other (my son has lots of friends and is very bright and gregarious if also very lazy while my daughter is very retreating and shy but incredibly driven and motivated). They both love fantasy and fantasy literature, movies and gaming has been a way for us all to connect. Though often what works for one, doesn’t necessarily work for the other. This brings me to my point, I am working on trying to best accommodate the needs of my neurodiverse daughter and include her in an experience that she very much wants to participate in, but often feels frustrated and overwhelmed by. This is an introduction to our journey so far. ...
I got my a while back and it looks good and overall is good, but was a bit surprised that it moved more towards AD&D. Not that I mine, but surprised.
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ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to going through it. I'd like to get a copy of Advanced Edition Companion and see how they stack up. I like to see how folks tinker with things so for me, the differences are very interesting as I like to take the best bits for me and make my own.
ReplyDeleteI doubt I'll have time, but I'd like to do a comprehensive comparison between S&W Complete, LL w/ AEC, OSRIC, and actual AD&D 1e.
ReplyDelete@Higgipedia- I have this fantasy that I'll have the time to pull out the OD&D 3 LBB's, all the supplements, Holmes, BECMI, Moldvay, Rules Cyclopedia, AD&D 1e and all of the clones and do a comparisson. I think the scary thing is that I actually own all of these to include 2e, 3e, 3.5 and 4e (much to my wife's chagrin). I am nothing if not a completist - well that and a huge geek with more money than sense I suppose ;).
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