Earlier this year, I went to the movie theater with my son and we ended up playing a little of D&D with made up rules. You can see the game here, including the now legendary Troll who can’t build a bridge encounter. When I came back from Gen Con a few days ago, I told […]
Friday Chat: Roleplaying with Children
On Wednesday afternoon, I found a email by Chris Sims in my inbox. Chris works for D&D insider but I knew him for having worked on quite a few D&D books, my favorite being the D&D 3.5 Rules Compendium and having briefly chatted with him at Gen Con last year. As I read the email, […]
Notebook Campaign: How I got my Son into Tabletop RPGs
This post is my personal musings about introducing my son to tabletop roleplaying as a progression from the Storytime games we’ve been playing since I came back from Gen Con last year. Instead of telling you why I want to do this, I’ll refer you to Martin Ralya’s excellent RPG advocacy article he just posted […]
Bedtime Campaign: Indiana Nico and The Golden King (and his take on RPGs)
Earlier today we were driving to the restaurant for a family dinner. I’m telling my 7 year old son Nico about how long it’s been since we did an interactive story. Nico “I’d like to have another of those stories” Chatty “You know Nico, you’re old enough to play the real game of Dungeons and […]
Bedtime Campaign: Pilot Nico’s Battlebot!
This post is part of a growing series relating the role playing bedtime stories I make with my kids. I hope you still enjoy them. Over the holidays, I concluded Nico’s Sword of Dream story. I’m not going to write about it, mostly because I forgot to record them and I don’t remember much from […]
Bedtime Adventure: Enter Cartain!
This series chronicles my Interactive Storytelling bedtime stories with my kids. Today is a chronicle of the short session I had with Rory, my 5 year old daughter. Chatty: So sweetie, do you want to try making a story like I do with Nico? Rory: Yes Daddy! I’m going to be Cartain the Warrior Princess […]
Bedtime Campaign: The Sword of Dreams
This post is part of a series where I made the going to bed story of my son into a free form roleplaying game. See the first post here and the whole series here. While I’ve been doing Interactive stories with my son since I came back from Gen Con, not all of them were […]
Chatty’s Finds: Kids, Castle and Caves
During my daily luminotherapy sessions, I travel the net for some blog goodies. Through Jeff’s Gameblog and through James’s Lamentation of the Flame Princess, I found a link to an outfit called Brave Halfling Production that currently supports some of the Retro-Clone games out there (i.e. New RPGs inspired by the rulesets of the Original […]
Chatty’s Mailbox: D&D 4e with kids
Yeah, I have playing RPGs with kids on my mind lately. I’m ready to move on to new things but here’s another post in the subject. Last week I got a very interesting email from fellow Montreal reader and blogger Eric. Turns out that after a 12 year break from DMing, Eric bought 4e and […]
Bedtime Campaign: Brother and Sister in the Car Edition
Three weeks ago I was on a fairly long car trip with both my children. I decided to test freeform storytelling with both of them to see how well young siblings could cooperate. After quite a rocky start we managed to agree on some rules so we could avoid fighting and move our story forward. […]
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