I've just started a new game. Both the starting children and the nursing mother are runners! To cap it all, I've just had my first event: it was the 'Long Legs' event, and so yet another villager has become a runner. That makes four villagers out of eight, including the babe-in-arms. Alas, I'll have to wait for the mother to drop her baby and for the two kids to grow up before I can really start gaining the benefit of all bar one of the runners.

LOL In France we say that it's "avoir le cul bordé de nouilles"!!
That means... to be... lucky!!

Wow, lucky! That's awesome.

i had 1 at beginning it was
the 3yr old child boy

I've tried to breed runners with potions. That didn't work

Isn't it sad? I wish we could.

Wow, how lucky can you get! Congratulation to you. Having just one runner makes a big difference to the game. Can't imagine having a total of four.

Congrats!

I won't even start a tribe unless there's a runner in it. But then when he/she becomes a chief, I'm sunk!

Yes, I've not yet chosen a chief. The odds are even that it'll be a runner! The baby is now three and he's not a runner. His name is Peep!