You get to select a character from five options—human paladin, hill dwarf cleric, lightfoot halfling rogue, high elf wizard, or wood elf fighter—and play through a story that introduces the ...

The 9-year-old boy would be Helpho, a lightfoot halfling with a shortbow. My mother became Amber, a hill dwarf cleric with spellcasting abilities and remarkably good luck with a 20-sided die.