I started my first ever TTRPG experience (one-shot DnD) back in August. It’s been a blast, I wish I had got started earlier in life with it.
But beyond the fun I have in-game, what’s been the best part for me is, I have three kids ages 3-7. When I put them to bed after a session earlier in the evening, I tell them the story of what happened in our game. They love this. The day of, they will constantly ask me when I’m playing and if I’ll tell them about what happened. Last night, when they weren’t listening to their mom I told them if they don’t listen I won’t tell them the story. The look of terror on their faces…. they were good the rest of the night.
So I really want to use this as an opportunity to get them into kids’ RPGs. My problem is, I’m new to this whole world myself and I’m having trouble narrowing down the possibilities for their first adventure. They really like a fantasy world so I’m trying to stick to that. FirstFable and Hero Kids looks interesting, but I wanted to make a post to solicit ideas from the community: what are some RPGs you would recommend for little kids for their first experience with it?
I ran hero kids for mine, started when the youngest was the same age. When I started the content was sparse but enough, now it’s got a monster manual, loads of pre built adventures and loads of extra bits. The extra bits are really important for kids they include outline drawings of the pre built characters to colour in, monsters to colour in character minis to cut out etc etc.
This helped me massively as it’s often went, I want to play hero kids now! And whilst they sorted out who they wanted to be, and even what pet they wanted, sorted their coloured dice, I could quickly select an adventure based on time and difficulty, and pretty much jump straight in with no prep. Obviously read the rules before hand
Youalso just needed to make the enemy “death” as suitable as you think the kids could handle, from the rat ran away to you chopped it in half with an axe.