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The Young Adventurers Guides Kick In The Door To Dungeons & Dragons For Kids (And Adults)
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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 8115130" data-attributes="member: 11760"><p>It depends on the age of the player, IMO.</p><p></p><p>One of my regular players during online games during the pandemic has been my middle school son. We've got a classmate joining us soon, who heard through the grapevine that we've been playing in games that include another classmate. This poor kid apparently owns a ton of D&D stuff and has never had people to play with, and jumped out of his chair when he heard it was finally happening in his (virtual) vicinity.</p><p></p><p>In another of my games, my nieces had played D&D once before, in a sort of free-form D&D-ish experience by a first-time DM at a slumber party. When their dad mentioned I was running games, they reached out as well.</p><p></p><p>It's probable that there's a comparable kid out there, reading Fate Accelerated alone in his room, but for a lot of first-time gamers, D&D is going to be the brand they know and are interested in checking out. Some flavor of D&D is probably the right way to go for them.</p><p></p><p>(That said, I'm also going to be running Monster of the Week for some first-time gamer adults this fall. They are interested in RPGs, but at least one of them <em>hates</em> traditional fantasy, but everyone in the group likes the monster-hunting TV genre, and Monster of the Week is a pretty light game comparatively, so here we are.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 8115130, member: 11760"] It depends on the age of the player, IMO. One of my regular players during online games during the pandemic has been my middle school son. We've got a classmate joining us soon, who heard through the grapevine that we've been playing in games that include another classmate. This poor kid apparently owns a ton of D&D stuff and has never had people to play with, and jumped out of his chair when he heard it was finally happening in his (virtual) vicinity. In another of my games, my nieces had played D&D once before, in a sort of free-form D&D-ish experience by a first-time DM at a slumber party. When their dad mentioned I was running games, they reached out as well. It's probable that there's a comparable kid out there, reading Fate Accelerated alone in his room, but for a lot of first-time gamers, D&D is going to be the brand they know and are interested in checking out. Some flavor of D&D is probably the right way to go for them. (That said, I'm also going to be running Monster of the Week for some first-time gamer adults this fall. They are interested in RPGs, but at least one of them [I]hates[/I] traditional fantasy, but everyone in the group likes the monster-hunting TV genre, and Monster of the Week is a pretty light game comparatively, so here we are.) [/QUOTE]
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