Introductory RPG for a 5yr. Old

[Argyle King]

The Lego adventure games aren't bad. Some of the adventures are actually pretty fun. They're a bit bare bones ruleswise compared to what I'd call a rpg, but, I think they are a fun product and pretty well suited to younger kids.

 

[Argyle King]

Lego Heroica

http://heroica.lego.com/en-us/games/theadventures.aspx?icmp=COUSGamesGLHEROICAAdventures

 

[Wednesday Boy]

I actually started my boys on the RPG path with a board game, HeroQuest. It taught them the basics about fighting monsters, casting spells, and searching for secret doors, treasure, and traps. Then, about a year or so after we had started with HeroQuest, the leap to AD&D 2nd edition (the current edition at the time) was a fairly easy one. (They were ages 10 and 8 when we made the leap from HeroQuest to AD&D.)

That's exactly how my friends and I got into roleplaying games. We played through all of the available HQ quests, then started writing and running our own. We wanted more options so we started making up more extensive rules and incorporating roleplaying into our quests. Finally we decided that instead of writing new rules to make Hero Quest a more complex game, we should save us the effort and use this more complex "AD&D" game. It was a great transition.