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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4802535" data-attributes="member: 40961"><a href="http://firefly-games.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=25&osCsid=26e7e62d61e82fd2c695b1ece5b21a53" target="_blank">Faery Tale</a> <a href="http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18723" target="_blank">Aye, Dark Overlord!</a> <a href="http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1234" target="_blank">Once Upon a Time</a> These are some things you might consider in the meantime.The first is an RPG aimed at small children.  I don't mean this for you and your wife per se, but if you've got kids, its a great little game and your wife would probably enjoy playing just to partake in fun with the family.  Its probably the best example of a roleplaying game for children on the market. The other two are storytelling games.  They're not RPGs, exactly, but there are roleplaying elements involved. Aye, Dark Overlord! is a game where one player takes on the role of the dark overlord (the DM, really) and the others are his worthless henchmen.  The worthless henchmen have just returned from utterly failing at their mission, in classic Disney/Saturday Cartoon style.  Now they're trying to explain to the overlord exactly what happened, and why it is totally not their fault.  And the best way to do that is to blame things on each other.  Its light, funny, and people know the tropes of the cringing henchmen well enough to jump right into it. Once Upon a Time is another storytelling game, this one based on faery tales.  Basically, you play cards to take control of the narrative by adding in story elements.  The winner is whoever uses their cards in the best way, but really it turns into a semi cooperative game where people try their best to make the story coherent. There are some other options, like the Baron Munchausen game, that are really RPG-lites, but these are the ones with which I'm most familiar.</blockquote>

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