Grown-ups

Running a first quest: for grown-ups

First Adventure is a tabletop quest for kids in grades 2 to 8, played around one phone in about 45 minutes. You need the phone, the people, and if you like, the printed hero sheets and a pencil. You do not need to read a rule book or prepare a story.

How a quest runs

  1. Pick a quest on the First Adventure page: the Forest, the Lost Pet or Pirate Cove. Each has two bosses to choose from.
  2. Everyone taps a pictured hero, or makes one first in the Hero Maker. A family of two to five plays best.
  3. The first Game Master reads the card aloud (or taps the speaker). The text has three versions: one for you, one for readers in grades 5 to 8 and one for grades 2 to 4.
  4. Roll the one die, add the best marks in the party for the check, and see if you reach the goal. A miss is “yes, but”: the story goes on, a little trickier.
  5. Pick one of three boxes for what the heroes do. Every boss has at least two kind ways to win without a fight.
  6. Pass the phone. The card says who the next Game Master is, so a child runs the table and nobody prepares anything.

What is kept, and what is not

Nothing about your child leaves the device. The party, the grade chip, the stamps and any heroes made in the Hero Maker stay in this browser. There is no account, chat or text box: children choose from three boxes and write or draw on paper only. Names come from a hand-written list (see the name pages), so a child never types one, real or otherwise.

Every scene is gentle: nobody gets hurt, bosses want something small, and the kind wins are always on the card. If a child needs a break, Pause is on every screen.

Where the rules come from

The scenes, heroes, creatures, names and pictures are Peabody's own. The shape of play (a stat, a die, a goal to reach, a bonus after a rest) follows the System Reference Document 5.2.1, a set of tabletop rules shared under a Creative Commons licence. No text, creature or named thing from it appears here. Its licence asks for this statement:

This work includes material from the System Reference Document 5.2.1 (“SRD 5.2.1”) by Wizards of the Coast LLC, available at https://www.dndbeyond.com/srd. The SRD 5.2.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.

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