Re: (TFT) Re: Kids and TFT

["Todd Roseberry" <paleryder1@verizon.net>]

I concur with David. When my kids are playing Total War: Rome or Star Wars 
Battlefront or the Star Wars miniature game, although they are concerned 
about winning they don't identify personally with the characters. Knowing 
what I know about them, I think they would have a difficult time losing a 
character that is personal to them. Heck, when I played years ago, my 
younger brother had a VERY hard time dealing with the death of a character- 
and he was a teenager! It might be an interesting experiment. Couldn't 
someone do a PhD thesis on this topic? ;-)

Aidan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David O. Miller" <davidomiller@verizon.net>
To: <tft@brainiac.com>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: (TFT) Re: Kids and TFT


> When we play any rpg my 7 year old son has a real problem with the 
> possibility of having his character get killed. He loves to play Heroscape 
> and Star Wars Miniatures and has no problem when his figures get wacked 
> since, obviously, these are not full fledged people in his mind. They are 
> more like playing pieces on a board game. But give him a rpg character 
> with a name and skills, weapons etc. and he gets very protective of him. 
> It's very interesting. I played a dungeon game with him and his older 
> sister (she's 10) and he had to quit in the middle of the game because his 
> barbarian got a little hurt and he became scared of loosing him. He 
> wouldn't fight anything and wanted to simply leave the dungeon. (My 
> daughter went on to win the scenario and my son's barbarian ruled the 
> day!)
>
> --David O. Miller
>
>
> > >   I have an 8, 6 and
> > >   3 year old. I'm not sure they're ready for a dungeon crawl...although 
> > > they
> > >   don't mind taking over the galaxy on Star Wars Battlefront.
> >
> > Based on my experience, 6 seems the minimum to get much into the game as 
> > a wargame. Even then, many of the role-playing aspects will be hard to 
> > "regulate" - kids younger than that just don't have the same concept of 
> > "fantasy" or same requirement for consistency within a world that adults 
> > do, so there will be a lot of referee/player clashes about "you can't do 
> > that". (Playing by canon helps some here).
> >
> > Also based on my experience, boys don't mind hack/n/slash fighting, but 
> > girls will want to spend a lot more time on role-playing and developing 
> > relationships. This is probably pretty personality dependent, but your 
> > campaign probably needs to be able to support both if you've got both.
> >
> > My experience is limited - kids now 6,10,13 and been playing for a couple 
> > of years. The 4-year-old was just *barely* interested when we gave him a 
> > strong dumb fighter and told him when to roll the dice and what he had to 
> > roll. His two older sisters were *thrilled* to discover the "mundane 
> > talents" (Baker, etc.) in the talent list.
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