Ask HN: Technology/Creative books and games for my daughter (7 years)

Re:Ask HN: Technology/Creative books and games for my daught... by throw_away1525 on Friday April 14, 2023 @06:51AM (#35567939)

I can highly recommend Amazing Tales, it is a pen and paper RPG for kids her age. I play with my daughter and she LOVES it. You only need a couple of six sided dice, although you can optionally spice things up with 8, 10, and 12 sided die if you have them (or you can make it special and buy some from your local games shop).

It's basically collaborative storytelling, and the possibility of failing dice rolls makes it exciting (you always 'fail forward', failures never really hurt the player but just open up new opportunities). The book also has tons of tips that you would probably never think of on your own - for instance, don't let your child name their character after themselves. Having a separate name allows them to keep some emotional distance between themselves and their character, which makes scary situations less scary for them!

https://amazing-tales.net/introducing-amazing-tales/

The PDF is 6 bucks, I felt like I had gotten my moneys worth after our very first session.

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Re:Ask HN: Technology/Creative books and games for my daught... by ca_tech on Friday April 14, 2023 @08:20AM (#35568686)

Hero Kids is another well regarded kid friendly rpg. Also only relies on 6 sided die and each session is an hour tops. Has been a fun way to spend a rainy day for our kids and they get pretty creative, so much so that the "story" sometimes continues throughout the day as they talk about their heros. Also cheap, especially if you purchase the bundle. https://www.heroforgegames.com/hero-kids/

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Re:Ask HN: Technology/Creative books and games for my daught... by throw_away1525 on Friday April 14, 2023 @12:41PM (#35571557)

It's going to be rainy all day tomorrow, and guess how we're going to spend our Saturday afternoon? Thanks for the recommendation. :)

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Re:Ask HN: Technology/Creative books and games for my daught... by stigi on Saturday April 15, 2023 @06:33AM (#35579320)

This sound so cool!

Does anybody know of similar games for non English speaking folks? My kid only speaks German and I have the feeling playing our first RPG will benefit from us all being on the same page in the same language.

Thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: Technology/Creative books and games for my daught... by throw_away1525 on Saturday April 15, 2023 @08:03AM (#35579831)

If you can read English well enough to read the rulebook yourself, then you can play with your kids in German... this is not like D&D or something, you never really need to reference the rulebook while playing the game. There is no player's handbook. The rules are really, really light. The focus is really on storytelling.

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Re:Ask HN: Technology/Creative books and games for my daught... by rahimnathwani on Saturday April 15, 2023 @05:44PM (#35584861)

Hero Kids is mentioned in this sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35568686

It's available in English, Polish, German and Spanish.

I bought the English version yesterday, but I haven't started reading yet.

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Re:Ask HN: Technology/Creative books and games for my daught... by leandot on Sunday April 16, 2023 @02:50AM (#35587859)

Thanks for this, had an amazing evening killing dragons and flying on magic carpets with my daughters.

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Re:Ask HN: Technology/Creative books and games for my daught... by throw_away1525 on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @11:23AM (#35615195)

So glad you enjoyed it!

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