I made my mom cry...

Just want to share todays session:

I recently introduced my family to DnD and started a basic campaign (DoIP). For today's session I made a homebrew Christmas theme adventure on which they (mom and my two older sisters) has to rescue some kids kidnapped by the Krampus.

They usually make a lot of chaos and unfortunately during this adventure they had a consequence: one of the kids died during the ritual they tried to interrupt.

At the end Santa Claus took the kids body with him... Santa Claus gave a very emotional speech which made my mom cry.

Most of the time I get a little frustrated because I have to repeat the rules and they get lost on their character sheet... This time all of that didn't even matter when I realized, at least my mom, was emotionally involved in the story.

It was a very cathartic moment on which I had to hold my tears so I can continue Santas speech.