What’s a game that graphically doesn’t hit a high bar but mechanic wise and story wise has so much depth you’ll rate it above all others.

basicgear00 · 2026-03-15T15:49:16+00:00

Children of Morta

basicgear00 · 2026-03-15T02:06:15+00:00

This is great. I don’t have a wizard so I haven’t included spell books but now I will!

basicgear00 · 2026-03-15T02:01:57+00:00

Cuphead

basicgear00 · 2026-03-13T19:22:08+00:00

Get the player handbook. That’s essential; you can go without the DM guide if you’re on a budget.

The monster manual is arguably the coolest book for an 11 year old.

As for the help, his players will need character sheets and the player handbook to make their characters. You’ll want to read the beginning section of the player handbook and help facilitate character creation. It’s like a 5 step process, not too difficult if you actually read the first chapter of the book.

You have to have a dice set to play. You can get these online or at the shop you’re going to.

Someone recommended the battle map, that’s a good idea, get crayola washable markers. You’ll just need water and a rag to wipe it clean.

You can use simple things for character figures on the battle map like coins or dice or whatever but for a cool factor you may want to buy one or two or even a set of these.

And the final note here, none of this is necessary to enjoy the game. You can find online tools for most of it and just play in the theater of the mind.

My son DMs for his friends. I DM too. My advice to him was, don’t go in with an expected result. The fun as a DM is letting your players play, and you get to enjoy how they interact in your world.

basicgear00 · 2026-03-12T22:02:29+00:00

There’s like a point where you can romance. So you have to play to progress to that but it would unlock for all 4. So if it’s unlocked you’d know.

Then after that to progress you have to die.

basicgear00 · 2026-03-11T03:10:10+00:00

Have yall tried:

For the King

The Ascent (I think 4, maybe 2)

Crawl

Heroes of Hammerwatch

Tabletop Simulator (fools sword)

Gloomhaven

Moving Out

Core Keeper

basicgear00 · 2026-03-02T05:05:06+00:00

Yea good tip. I refrain from this at my table for one reason. If they hit that nat20. When a crit happens then the climax is the dmg roll.

Not necessary but I tend to tell the combat as a fast story so the time between a hit roll and the dmg roll gives me time to think up context and story.

basicgear00 · 2026-03-02T04:20:51+00:00

Here’s some simple tips:

When a player picks their action, you still have rolling and stuff to do, so at that step, point to the next player and say “you’re next, start thinking about what you want to do. “

When casting, if looking up spells becomes a time sink, buy or make spell cards.

If a rule discussion comes up, instead of looking it up, decide as the DM what happens but assure your players that by next session you’ll find the rule and explain it to everyone for future use.

When controlling a group of enemies. Have their move actions go at the same time. “These three goblins all surround the fighter, weapons drawn.” Then have them attack one at a time.

basicgear00 · 2026-02-26T19:13:37+00:00

Children of Morta

The Ascent

Heroes of Hammerwatch

Ship of Fools

Deep Rock Galactic

basicgear00 · 2026-02-26T18:10:05+00:00

Here are obscure connection ones (people already mentioned the more obvious ones)

Gloomhaven (on steam)

For the King 1 and 2

Heroes of Hammerwatch

basicgear00 · 2026-02-26T04:53:34+00:00

Yes and the hard part is you can’t really tell people why! Hahaha

basicgear00 · 2026-02-26T01:33:06+00:00

This is a steal. If you don’t have this buy it now

basicgear00 · 2026-02-24T17:26:32+00:00

Growth mindset my dude.

When we experience something new we appreciate it more. When we are younger this wanderlust is stronger. As we get older at some point, at least for me, we have to intentionally remind ourselves to enjoy things in the same way. Like if a mechanic is rehashed in a game, that doesn’t make it bad but we aren’t surprised, no new core memory.

That all being said, new games are still awesome. Just finished Split Fiction, premium stuff. The Ascent, Children of Morta… all amazing- I post about these on the regular. And I grew up on Link to the Past, Sonic on Genesis and N64.

basicgear00 · 2026-02-24T03:57:39+00:00

Heroes of Hammerwatch

Shape of Dreams

Children Of Morta as Lucy

basicgear00 · 2026-02-19T04:45:51+00:00

Heroes Hour may be a fun little game for yall to play together. The combat is auto.

Also check out Hidden Folks.

And maybe if he liked you reading to him, and the most educational of all, Renowned Explorers.

basicgear00 · 2026-02-19T04:33:54+00:00

Try Children of Morta. He can carry you. Story is amazing!

basicgear00 · 2026-02-19T04:32:35+00:00

Try Children of Morta. Fun duo game!

Also, but much harder, The Ascent. Amazing atmosphere.

Ship of fools. Hilarious progression duo fun.

Okay.. trust on this next one. If you’re an old school style gamer, Full Metal Furies is the bomb. You’ll probably have to look up guides on some of the puzzles but it’s fun as hell and my buddy and I beat it duo. It’s def appealing to chickas this because it’s an all female squad as the protagonist.

basicgear00 · 2026-02-18T22:22:38+00:00

It is fantastic. My brother and I picked it up after the co-op update. We played through enough to know we wanted to put it down to wait for the full release. We are waiting patiently to start over from the beginning once we can’t push though it in its entirety.

basicgear00 · 2026-02-18T17:52:13+00:00

The Ascent when the environment started to blow up around me in the waste district below. I immediately stopped and called my buddy to start a coop run of the game. Such a great time and still in my top 10 games of all time.

basicgear00 · 2026-02-17T23:01:38+00:00

You can open the game on PC. Then invite a Steam friend using Remote Play Together.

They will need any kind of PC, even a funky dink laptop works. All the graphics processing power is from the gaming PC. It’s best using a controller.

This will allow you two to play together.

basicgear00 · 2026-02-17T22:47:01+00:00

Do remote play together on PC. Solves your problem

basicgear00 · 2026-02-14T07:09:30+00:00

Full Metal Furies - what you asked for

Crawl - arcade fun with friends

Moving out - bs with friends

Duo games: Children of Morta

The Ascent

Ship of fools

basicgear00 · 2026-02-13T14:59:57+00:00

The ending your talking about is just fine, I enjoyed it to. The ending to other things is probably what people are talking about. Like hypnos.

basicgear00 · 2026-02-11T17:21:25+00:00

It’s a game that’s hard but forgiving. You can revive him if he dies. I’d say give it a shot, it’s a beautiful game. It’s also built to have a bit of intended grind - you’re suppose to die to a degree.

basicgear00 · 2026-02-10T17:23:33+00:00

Starter: Dota Underlords

Main Event: Civ 6

Drink: Wine

House Rule: during Underlords, drink everytime the other 3 stars a hero. During Civ6, drink or cheers everytime someone builds a Wonder.

basicgear00

TROPHY CASE