Ever since the release of PHB2, my wife's interest in D&D has really picked up - I suspect the character builder has helped a lot, but it seems tied to
the release of the Barbarian, Druid, and Bard.
As a result, I'm going to be running a sandbox single player game for her, set primarily in the Nentir Vale as presented in the back of the DMG (this makes it low-work for me, and it means I can give her a resource to flip through, and a decent map as well).
There will be some NPCs, but I mostly want it to be about her exploration - with this as a goal, I decided I would bend some rules to make the 1 character thing work out. At first, she was considering a beast master ranger - which would have been great, as I could have given the beast its own actions, and it would have been like a second character for her.
However, she chose ... a Valor Bard. A leader, of all things.
With this in mind, I'm working on a list of house rules to make it work. So far, I have:
1. You count as your own ally.
2. You gain 1 action point with each short rest.
3. More Surges, or you can heal up to bloodied during a short rest without spending any surges.
I'm also considering giving her an animal companion or a familiar as time goes on - a creature with its own actions and HP and so on - perhaps even a monster, such as a wolf or a rage drake.
Anyone have any thoughts, comments, expectations, or ideas in ways to make this go smoothly?
As a result, I'm going to be running a sandbox single player game for her, set primarily in the Nentir Vale as presented in the back of the DMG (this makes it low-work for me, and it means I can give her a resource to flip through, and a decent map as well).
There will be some NPCs, but I mostly want it to be about her exploration - with this as a goal, I decided I would bend some rules to make the 1 character thing work out. At first, she was considering a beast master ranger - which would have been great, as I could have given the beast its own actions, and it would have been like a second character for her.
However, she chose ... a Valor Bard. A leader, of all things.
With this in mind, I'm working on a list of house rules to make it work. So far, I have:
1. You count as your own ally.
2. You gain 1 action point with each short rest.
3. More Surges, or you can heal up to bloodied during a short rest without spending any surges.
I'm also considering giving her an animal companion or a familiar as time goes on - a creature with its own actions and HP and so on - perhaps even a monster, such as a wolf or a rage drake.
Anyone have any thoughts, comments, expectations, or ideas in ways to make this go smoothly?
