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Welcome to D&D for the Kids!

Hi! I'm Clint. I'm a teacher, a dad, and a gamer with strong roots in old school D&D. My first experience was running the old black box for my mom and her friends. I played Second Edition AD&D throughout high school and college, moving to 3.5 during my first few years of teaching. After many years and many iterations (and a long hiatus while I went through a painful divorce and custody battle and spent a lot of time playing MMORPGs... and was incidentally saved from the pain that was 4th edition), I've come back to D&D. This time though, I'm running the game for my kids and their friends! 
The Famous / Infamous Black Box

I set up another website to house the resources and game stuff we're doing, called "The East York Rollers" with a mission to provide family friendly D&D sessions for kids to play with mentors either online or live in York, PA. Unfortunately "we" are not an open organization. We do not have the resources to vet mentors and check their clearances etc. I looked online and not a lot of people are talking about this, so I decided to set up this blog to further share my resources and insights for any parents that want to run games for your kids and their friends to get them started, teachers who want to run clubs at school, or community centers that want to provide this as an activity. After all, there are a lot of benefits to this kind of play for kids, from social / emotional to Interdisciplinary Learning to childhood development.  

What qualifies me to talk about this? Well, in addition to being a teacher, a dad, and a gamer, I also teach game design. I teach kids in school how to design fun games. If that's not enough, well, I'm doing it. I took the plunge and am running two very diverse groups of kids through two very different campaigns. So, I hope that some of this will help you. 
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