Episode 7: Adapt, Adjust, & Overcome: Roleplaying Games With Children (Part 2)

This week, Chris and Laura continue the conversation about adapting roleplaying games for younger children. We give concrete suggestions for choosing game systems and settings, ways to make the game fun and accessible, and, as usual, tell lots of stories.

Recommended  Games:

 

Cavemaster - This stone age roleplaying game can easily be adapted for younger players, and will work whether their interest is paleontology or the Ice Age movies. 

Descent: Journeys in the Dark 

Dungeon!

Dungeons & Dragons - This is the fantasy roleplaying game we play the most. We primarily use Basic and Expert rules, with occasional homebrew additions from the first edition of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. Hard copies of the rule books, as well as tons of adventure modules, can be found on eBay or used books sites. Show notes for Part 2 will include links to modern "retro clones" which use similar rule sets. We prefer the "sandbox" style play of the earlier editions of the game because they are more flexible for open-ended play. 

Flashing Blades - Looking for something more like The Three Musketeers? Love Errol Flynn and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. movies? This is the game to try.

Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game- Title says it all. This is an anniversary edition of the original game. Fantasy Flight Games now publishes several others taking place in different eras of the Galaxy Far Far Away as well, but we are partial to the earlier edition for sentimental reasons. 

 

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Intro and Outro Music:

"Crunk Knight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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