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<blockquote data-quote="alexrawlins" data-source="post: 6663665" data-attributes="member: 6798530">My son is 7 and my daughters 5 and 4. My son really wanted to play and the girls chimed in. One thing I did was follow the rule &quot;say yes&quot;. Usually actions are roll a d20 add a modifier then roll damage. Much additional complexity didn't work. For my girls I actually used a character &quot;companion&quot; sheet by DNDUI which is much simpler and with less abilities. They aren't really designed to level up much or track many resources. My 5 year old wanted to play a character Rainbow who has a rainbow attack and a rainbow heal. Those and the 6 stats, HP, and AC are the only thing really on those sheets, I handle any other abilities she wants to try on a case by case basis. The character will have proficiency scale up as my son's more full featured character does. Luckily we are only playing 1-3rd level characters so there are fewer options he has to track.The other thing is that they pop in for an encounter, get bored and leave which works fine.For my son, playing a cleric, much of his abilities besides healing and cantrips at his level are actually a second character (fox) he can summon and do things, this allows him to be effective with more actions a turn but not more complexity of tracking different class abilities. As we play more I will come up with some additional stuff and we will see how it goes. Hero Kids was mentioned, but the biggest drawback is my son wants to use the cool full color books dad uses, and he wants something a bit more complex. He may also play a WEG Star Wars D6 game next weekend, we will see how that goes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="alexrawlins, post: 6663665, member: 6798530"] My son is 7 and my daughters 5 and 4. My son really wanted to play and the girls chimed in. One thing I did was follow the rule "say yes". Usually actions are roll a d20 add a modifier then roll damage. Much additional complexity didn't work. For my girls I actually used a character "companion" sheet by DNDUI which is much simpler and with less abilities. They aren't really designed to level up much or track many resources. My 5 year old wanted to play a character Rainbow who has a rainbow attack and a rainbow heal. Those and the 6 stats, HP, and AC are the only thing really on those sheets, I handle any other abilities she wants to try on a case by case basis. The character will have proficiency scale up as my son's more full featured character does. Luckily we are only playing 1-3rd level characters so there are fewer options he has to track. The other thing is that they pop in for an encounter, get bored and leave which works fine. For my son, playing a cleric, much of his abilities besides healing and cantrips at his level are actually a second character (fox) he can summon and do things, this allows him to be effective with more actions a turn but not more complexity of tracking different class abilities. As we play more I will come up with some additional stuff and we will see how it goes. Hero Kids was mentioned, but the biggest drawback is my son wants to use the cool full color books dad uses, and he wants something a bit more complex. He may also play a WEG Star Wars D6 game next weekend, we will see how that goes. [/QUOTE]

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