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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 535851" data-attributes="member: 221">I am currently playing with both my five and six year old sons.  In fact you can read about it in my story hour - they have been playing the characters Kall and Jozz for about 6 sessions.  I started off about two years ago using the Pokemon Jr. Adventure game to introduce the concept of roleplaying.About six months ago I started working them through scenarios from the adventure box.  They made it to the third scenario and then kept repeatedly dying.  They did not have great problems with the wizards presented in the adventure box.  They did well enough with the adventure box however that I decided to let them make their own characters.  We homeschool and so the making of characters became a bit of a math review/lesson as I had them roll the four dice and add up three of them themselves.  Then when they had their six numbers I asked them what race they wanted, letting them look at the pictures and then went descriptevly through the basic classes asking them which they wanted (for ease of 1st time play I did not allow any spellcasting classes for their first character).  That done, I then picked two abilities and asked them which was most important.  Caleb wanted a Barbarian and so I started out by asking which was more important, strength or health/toughness and then putting the higher score in the one he picked.They really like the miniatures - and rolling the dice.  In fact I painted new miniatures for their characters for a christmas present and each has already bought their own dice.  At their age, one has to be more patient in explaining what is going on.  But they role-play well.  Strategy at times is what they need help with the most as they lack the real life experience to think out certain consequences, but they are learning and both look forward to playing, constantly pestering about when the next game for them will be.</blockquote>

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