The Weekender XLBS: Gaming With The Little ‘Uns!
August 4, 2013 by dignity
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Great Vid guys. I am going to share my gaming experiences with my daughter, its a bit long winded but bear with me. In the video Warren mentioned by the time kids get to 5 they can get a better grasp on things, sadly for me its a little difficult. May daughter has just turned 5 and she has autism, so she acts more like a 2-3 year old. When she was born I couldnt wait til she was a toddler so I could start her into daddys geek hobby, but as more time moved on it became more apparent… Read more »
We/I have a small amount of experience with Autism, and it can be immensely challenging for all involved. I wonder if building mazes (dungeons) out of blocks, and have warmachine characters in the maze that pose little math tasks along the way would be fun for you both? Autism is incredibly difficult to grasp for us all, and the scale of autism is so wide that at times it can feel that every situation is totally unique. So with that in mind its always difficult to know what might work and what won’t, as a shared game or pastime. Thanks… Read more »
My 13 year old nephew is autistic and I’ve just recently introduced him to war hammer and he is like a different person when he plays in terms of confidence, social integration and getting involved in narrative. He struggles with story’s and imagination but since he has been getting involved in playing at my house he is really starting to enjoy the hobby. He has a great head for maths and tactics and he’s even one a couple of games.
Cool idea of storytelling with your child. Have t try it out with my 3 year old.
I have already got him into painting minis with me 🙂
Harris Potter and the prisoner of P-9
The first rule of Call of Cthulhu is never ever go into a library. That way lies sanity loss.
A friend of mine (the creator of the award-winning Duty & Honour rpg) has been rp-ing with his two daughters for many years with great success.
Not had any experience in young kids (no sniggering please) but I was lucky my step daughter was 8 when she asked for models and paint just in time for dark vengeance so bought that and now she has more models than me. I just buy her different stuff to keep her interested . Not to rub it in to warren but my girls love everything starwars why not try the clonewars cartoons to get her into it ? and great show as always
Mmmmm, tanks 🙂
I remember going to the local Odeon in 1984 to see a triple bill of the Star Wars movies. I was 9 years old at the time and loved them movies. Within a few years I had lost interest completely. I never made it out of Tattooine when trying to watch the re-mastered releases. I’ve still never seen the second and third prequel as The Phantom Menace was terrible. I wish I’d had Andrea’s good sense to get out after 20 minutes. The original three films were definitely of their era and if you were the right age at the… Read more »
See I find the origonal three films really enjoyable to watch still, I also find the three prequals watchable but not bad. The thing that has kept me interested in them throughtout has been the amount of things in the Star Wars universe other than the 6 movies; games, books, cartoons and so much more!
Heh, reminds me of the baby monitor we used to have when my first son as born. We would sometimes hear the sound of a different baby crying and the sound of a cot mobile playing although because it was bleed over from a similar radio channel it was always a bit distorted. Three years later my second son was born and the baby monitor was hooked up again. Funny thing was, we’d still hear exactly the same baby crying and the same cot mobile playing.. Anyway, on to gaming! Both of my boys are currently old enough that they… Read more »
My son is coming up to a year old and i have tried in vein to get my missus into the hobby, even took her to TTN and showed her all the simple games, loverly mini’s and pick up and play games that are on the shelfes in there and walked out with munchkin, an infinity starter crew and X-Wing. Started watching Tabletop with her and she seemed intereseted and then she went back to candy crush!!
Soon as seth is old enough i will be introducing him to the hobby and going from there!
Urgh! I hear you. Worse – when I met my wife back at university, we were both in the gaming club. She was a huge fan of Cyberpunk 2020 and Kult and we continued to game together even after we moved away from our old gaming buddies to get jobs. But as soon as my first son was born she totally lost interest in it. Now she sits on the sofa playing Candy Crush for hours and insists she doesn’t have time for games anymore. Doh!
Great vid reg gaming with your little ones! Also good luck with the creepy thirsty devil kid…
There is only one logical thing to do in a situation like this. Set infrared cameras up all through the house….
the problem is we saw the first 3 films when we were kids and everything has a rose tint to them but if you talked to kids that had only seen the new ones its what they grew up with my nephew thought the old ones were too slow till the big end fights and the new ones are better its all perspective give a few years and they’ll be complaining about the new Disney ones
I’ve no idea what you’re talking about here. There are three Star Wars movies. Three.
What is this talk of prequels?
I bought a child friendly role-playing game called Faery’s Tale to play with my kids, available in PDF format. Kids loved it, but now they are slightly older I tend to play the D&D board games with them.
38 minutes of hilarity! Another fun show!
Great food for thought too, my daughter is 2 and 4 months, and I have been thinking of ways to introduce her to the hobby (much to my wife’s dismay) and this has given me inspiration to try it. I was holding back till she was a little older but I think Warren and some of the commenters have made me see there is no need to wait!
Thanks much appreciated!
Hey there, great show. Thought you were a little harsh on the Star Wars toy. I had had boxes full of them and 2 or 3 Millennium Falcons and an X-Wing and an AT-AT and a AT-ST. And yes they weren’t the best in the world but i have seen worse getting released today. And you have to remember it was between 30 and 40 years ago these were released. And if I remember correctly Star Wars was the first franchise to really do merchandising on such a large scale so I doubt so much money was put into it.… Read more »
I don’t have kids myself (yet) but back in my hometown every summer there is a live action role playing camp for kids that has been massively popular. I never had the chance myself to participate but several of my good friends did and have even started working there. I think it is fantastic because it is interactive both physically and mentally and allows an easy way into the hobby. I loved this XLBS because it brought back some great memories of watching Star Wars and time bandits with my dad and how those shaped my love of wargaming. Long… Read more »
Really looking forward to hearing more about hte Firefly game, hopeully it will live up to my expectations.
Guy in the local club did get the whole family playing – including 3 teenage daughters – I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when they did go into the local GW store
As for my own daughter who is 5 we have made and played a few games based on My Little Pony, I might try the rewards and use the tiles form Dwarf Kings Hold
A wonderful show and for the record its been very very cold down here in Australia, I used to live in Tasmania and that showed occasionally, not like it does up in the UK though. Today ranged from 8 to 14 degrees…lol Justin, as someone thats new to 40k I would love to see your first games and the impressions of it as you learn how to play it, hope you get to talk more about that in upcoming episodes. As for playing with kids I am not a father but do have 2 nieces that live in another state,… Read more »
I’ve never really tried to push my kids to wargaming and rpgs to be honest, but what we have always done is get them both together and play boardgames, even when the youngest was 3 ish we had snakes and ladders and the like for everyone. I dont know if they are still available, but once your daughter gets to 4/5 years old, there used to be a really, really nice line of simplified what I would call ‘proper’ board games to get kids involved, we Have kids of Catan and Kids of Carcassonne , both are based loosely on… Read more »
Don’t have any kids so I felt very disconnected from that video. 🙁
Mice & Mystics is a great boardgame for children and is effectively roleplaying with mice miniatures but you follow a storybook and each chapter is an adventure you play out. It will be a bit too advanced for a toddler but would provide a fantastic toolkit to simplify it down like Warren’s Scooby Doo game. And then when your children are a bit older you can play the full game.
On the subject of Star Wars, I don’t like them anymore. I sit down to watch them now and I just have to switch off after a little bit. Even the prequels now aren’t interesting to me. This has been much to the ire of my close geek friends but I just find them sooooo boring now lol.
For a time I tried to get my son into WFB or 40K. Right about the time I started playing FoW, he shows an interest in WFB, heh. (Who says an old dog can’t teach a young dog to play with plastic dolls.. or something like that?) He really likes the Tomb Kings, but of course I only have a Lizardmen army.
I think the star wars films still hold up fairly well, despite being tampered with endlessley by Lucas (mostly for the worst). But my love of star wars is largely satisified by roleplaying games now, it’s such a deep setting with plenty of background material to use, you can run any kind of adventure from more adult and brutal criminal underworld type adventures, to high fantasy force power slinging battles. Fantasy flight have also done a fairly good job with the new rpg game, and theres still some hope that the new films might be half decent, so heres hoping… Read more »