My Top Secret campaign is still on hiatus for the next couple of weeks due to family commitments and extra-curricular activites for school and athletics.  However, I’m still gearing up for the resumption/restarting of my kids’campaign.  This post will include their first mission.  This is the information I gave them as a “briefing” before they departed [...]

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When we left off, our heroes had both chosen to work for a clandestine government agency in lieu of jail time.  Derrick’s programming skills and Anne’s artistic ability were known commodities.  The Agency was eager to measure their capacity in many other areas… The training lasted nearly a year.  First off was the physical assessment.  [...]

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As promised, here is the limited backstory of how our soon-to-be heroes became agents…  Almost done…  one more brush stroke…  perfect!  Anne Dunwoody has just completed a forgery of Rembrandt’s Night Watch, which was stolen from the Louvre with much fanfare last week.  She knows that what she’s doing is wrong, but she has no [...]

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I’m speaking about the Top Secret role-playing game, in case “big brother” happens to be watching… Now that I’ve got that out of the way, what I’ve found is that the kids – at ages 9 and now 12 – really aren’t ready to play this game like an agent.  They still think in terms [...]

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The kids and I have kicked off our Top Secret RPG campaign.  I’m acting as the “administrator,” where I create and run the campaign, handle all non-player character interactions, and do the math to resolve encounters.  The kids just tell me what they want to do, what they’re carrying, and it takes off from there. [...]

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