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RPGs for kids

Started by James McMurray, December 24, 2006, 05:41:03 PM

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droog

#120
January 28, 2007, 05:49:54 PM
QuoteAnd if you're not having fun playing a WW game, you're playing it wrong.  Unless it's the system itself you don't like.

I don't care for the system, but really it's the whole set-up. I just find it all really goofy. I think it might be a generational thing – I was in my late 20s when Vampire came out.
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James McMurray

#121
January 28, 2007, 05:52:58 PM
Bah, throw the crap you don't like out the window and play it like it was meant to be played: combat monsters ripping each other to shreds. :)

droog

#122
January 28, 2007, 05:58:57 PM
Quote from: James McMurrayBah, throw the crap you don't like out the window and play it like it was meant to be played: combat monsters ripping each other to shreds. :)
Doesn't appeal, man. No offense.

But back on the kids: my daughter has learned to say "Ha ha ha! I vant to suck your blood!"
The past lives on in your front room
The poor still weak the rich still rule
History lives in the books at home
The books at home

Gang of Four
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James McMurray

#123
January 28, 2007, 06:01:26 PM
No! It has to appeal somehow or I'm invalidated as a gamer! ;)

How old is she?

droog

#124
January 28, 2007, 06:05:11 PM
She's 5, so it's pretty cute. She's got a set of plastic vampire teeth and a little cloak.
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Gang of Four
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Tyberious Funk

#125
January 28, 2007, 10:23:20 PM
Quote from: droogI don't care for the system, but really it's the whole set-up. I just find it all really goofy. I think it might be a generational thing – I was in my late 20s when Vampire came out.

Generation may have something to do with it.  But I think I was, maybe, 15 when Vampire came out and yet nonetheless thought it was goofy.  I still think it's goofy.  The only White Wolf product I own is a pdf copy of the new World of Darkness, and that's only because they offered it for free.  

I'm sure there is a lot of awesome gaming to be had with White Wolf games.  But I can't help thinking about the poor little cupcake I used to go to university with, who would wear his plastic vampire teeth to class.  Along with his cloak and black board shorts (because it was too hot to wear black jeans).
 

Settembrini

#126
January 29, 2007, 09:26:19 AM
Vampire is all about genre and sub-culture.
And if you don´t dig the particular genre, than you´ll have a hard time relating to it.
Has nothing to do with quality or any other objective categories.
If there can\'t be a TPK against the will of the players it\'s not an RPG.- Pierce Inverarity

James McMurray

#127
March 03, 2007, 07:30:44 PM
My wife came in from work the other day and my five year old son was standing in the entryway saying things like "I must eat flesh" in a creepy Exorcist child voice. But don't worry, gaming with me didn't drive him to Satanism, he was just reading one of the stories in the All Flesh Must Be Eaten rulebook.

Poor kid. Mom was a little creeped out and made him put it away, even though he made it very clear that it didn't scare him. She didn't realize we'd already had the father-son heart-to-heart about zombies so he knew they were just in movies and games. :)
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