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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nedjer" data-source="post: 5626240" data-attributes="member: 83796">Much of the fun in beating-up monsters and stealing their treasure comes from making effective use of the rules. If you don't have a handle on the rules system its hard to 'get it'. Equally, it's hard to get excited about a vorpal blade when you're not sure what it does.Mike Mearls recently posted on 're-instating' exploration into mainstream gameplay alongside or on equal terms with combat encounters. Without in any way setting combat aside the full gameplay finery of RPGs could maybe be seen as involving combat, exploration, investigation, discovery, invention, enterprise and storybuilding.To a player with limited understanding/ appreciation of rule sets all of these options are, initially, more accessible than full-on combat encounters. I.e. it's often going to be much easier to 'sell' a kid an adventure such as sort out the cheating at the fantasy Olympics; over work out which of the 34 options you don't understand on your PC sheet are you going to select carefully - as the rest of the session hangs on making the right ill-informed choice. To an expert player it's speed-dial to the novice it's which random button do I press.Good prompting's going to help, but without mixing-up the gameplay options it's diffiicult to bridge the skills gap with kids. Must dash, but here's a few posts which might be relevant:<a href="http://thistlegames.com/thistle/2010/11/21/tabletop-rpgs-challenges/" target="_blank">Challenges</a><a href="http://thistlegames.com/thistle/2010/05/01/our-favourite-tabletop-rpg-props/" target="_blank">RPG Props</a><a href="http://thistlegames.com/thistle/2011/07/13/tabletop-rpgs-options-and-opportunities-for-kids/" target="_blank">RPG Options For Kids</a>HTH</blockquote>

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