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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jedijon" data-source="post: 7723522" data-attributes="member: 49099">Egg - read down through your article and didn't see any anecdotes. Would like to know if you've played this game with kids? Either your own or otherwise. One thing that seems common to all parents is that they discard opinions on what's good for kids unless it comes from someone who can vouch for it. The criteria necessary to make you an expert? Wait for it... Have you been there yourself? Kids change like lightning. A five year old becomes a seven year old...they're like two different people. And (in direct argument against my main point of needing recommendations from other parents) they're almost so unique as to be uncatecorizeable. Notice I said almost. So - as a parent - you fret over whether when if to show your kid Jurassic Park. You want to know if it's appropriate interesting. If other parents do. And if you chose to, you won't know till AFTER THEY SEE IT to know if they run screaming, have nightmares, roar at the breakfast table because it was so captivating, or sit on the couch ranking their favorite franchises - Pacific Rim, Star Trek, JP, Harry Potter, Star Wars. Thats my five year old's actual list up there... And you do this for every movie, book, sport. Every experience that strikes your parental brain as new. So, I AM A PARENT of the target age for this material in your article. And as it stands I'm sceptical. I have two kids, ages 5 & 8. What I believe is the case here is this is a cute thing, and cute things = kid things. Thats not true in my experience. I would challenge that assertion any day. I can tell you neither of my kids has any interest in fairies. We spent years and $ searching for kid games. We realized they like our games just fine. IF they could read. Dragon Parade, Jaipur, Dixit, Tsuro, Take It Easy - just to name a very few (across various themes and complexities). My 5 yr old will soon be six. Reading is in sight. Role play is on our horizon. LFG baby! But WHAT to play? Truly? See, it's not like this is a vacuum needing a special product! I've been role playing with my kids their whole lives. Stories, adventures we make up. I guess we are probably LARPing in the backyard with those sticks LoL. My 8 yr old makes a decent deck in MTG drafts all by herself. She enjoys Card Hunter. She could play D&D from character creation on. If we play often I bet she could DM--just not read the whole stupid huge book! Without some glowing reviews from actual kid play experience--I wouldn't touch a product aimed at kids with a 10' pole. And whoever came up with that aphorism must've played D&D! Nope. I'll run the character for my young', and streamline feats for both--and focus on the stories that fascinate them. Not an aspirational product for 'oh, I WISH we could role play together'. Learning the new system is just a barrier of entry for both the parent and child. There's plenty of kids products already on the market. Parents, you're playing them already--hopefully our kids are too!</blockquote>

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