![]() You may not fudge the rolls in your games normally, but be prepared to when playing with kids. Make them laugh and get them excited about the game. Kids remember these descriptions more than they remember a simple “you hit” or “that’s a miss”. If the player fails then make the failure humorous. Make hits and misses and skill checks exciting. Getting them to make skill rolls or attack rolls keeps them involved, adds excitement and reinforces the feeling that they are playing a game rather than slightly more abstract concept of shared story telling. If your kids are young then they’re likely to struggle with coming up with dialogue. With kids, role-playing is going to be less important than roll-playing in the first instance. Winghorn Press produce a number of really cool but very simple one-shot adventures (including one featuring a “Bed Dragon”) which use the free to download D&D 5e Basic Rules. ![]() Go and kill/capture them or recover the artefact etc. They’ve done this bad thing or stolen this artefact. While this is interesting for us as adults, kids won’t necessarily pick up on most of this so keeping the adventure goal and the behaviour of it’s main antagonists simple and logical. Official published adventures tend to have complex NPCs with complex motivations, often connected to the internal politics of the setting. The learning curve is less than you would think. Nowadays, thanks to the influence of D&D which permeates modern day video games, kids are familiar with these concepts. When I got into Dungeons and Dragons in the early 80s, concepts like characters, NPCs, XP, levelling up and temporary buffs (e.g. The core concepts are surprisingly familiar In this article, I want to look at the challenges involved in introducing kids to RPGs and some hints and tips I’ve come up with based on the sessions I’ve run. Roleplaying games present a different challenge to the kids of today than they did to the kids of 35 years ago (when I got into RPGs) – Good God, that statement makes me feel old. ![]() We’ve been gaming as a family for a couple of years now, but mostly card and board games. I recently introduced the kids to Role-playing Games.
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