OTish; new game

[Tombot]

In which direction did you think you will take that adventure with your little girl, before you started ?
I mean the tone of the whole thing and the goal for your little protagonist. I cant imagine playing with a kid anything that involves heartbreaking losses (dead neighbours, lying on their frontlawn and horrible stuff like that), severe injuries, etc.

In a fantasy-game, things could be more "nice" to get around the treatment of injuries ("Its magic!") f.e.
The only approach i could come up with, would be like a humorous One-shot in the tradition of the "Simpsons Halloween Specials" ("BARTOCALYPSE NOW")
So i am interested to know how you go about these things.

PS: Hope your tooth will get well soon & have fun with your daughter playing

[weswood]

Originally Posted by Tombot

In which direction did you think you will take that adventure with your little girl, before you started ?
I mean the tone of the whole thing and the goal for your little protagonist. I cant imagine playing with a kid anything that involves heartbreaking losses (dead neighbours, lying on their frontlawn and horrible stuff like that), severe injuries, etc.

In a fantasy-game, things could be more "nice" to get around the treatment of injuries ("Its magic!") f.e.
The only approach i could come up with, would be like a humorous One-shot in the tradition of the "Simpsons Halloween Specials" ("BARTOCALYPSE NOW")
So i am interested to know how you go about these things.

PS: Hope your tooth will get well soon & have fun with your daughter playing

I've already corrupted my daughter, her favorite movies are Zombie movies and hack n slash horror movies. After watching "Zombieland" I looked her dead in the eyes and told her as serious as I could 'You turn into a zombie, I'm going to cap you right between the eyes." Her reply was "Not if I get you first." She's a pretty tough kid, unfortunatley she'd dealt with death already- Grandma, aunts, cousins, pets.

After describing the effects of an EMP and a kenetic energy weapon she told me she wants vampire, werewolves, and zombies. Got to figure how to work that in.

[boogiedowndonovan]

on a zombie related note,

do you and your daughter watch "Walking Dead" on AMC?

First season is out on DVD.

[Medic]

While the concern for weswoods kid is understandable, 11yo kids can be pretty mature and frankly speaking, many parents don't even realize what kind of stuff their kids watch on TV. And I believe, weswood knows what he can and can not present to his kid.

Not to rant, but nowadays people tend to raise their kids in a vacuum where they can see nor hear evil and are oblivious of anything bad even being possible.

I wish, my sisters kids lived closer to me, so I could corr-err-introduce roleplaying games to them.

[Tombot]

Yeah, sounds like she has a cool taste for an eleven year old.

I asked, cause i was just curious. No moralizing shit from me here.
Your right; kids are often up to a lot of serious things.
Would´nt be good to stuff a child in an isolated bubble of "disney-cheese", when its pretty mature for its age already.
I work with youngsters from 15+ (most of´em are 18+); so i only have a bit of experience with younger ones through my godchildren. And i am not shy with them, too.

Go for it! Hunt those invading bastards down with her ! (And a movie with good´ol Woody Harrelson & Billy Murray/ with zombies= good choice for starters!)

[weswood]

I wasn't worried about moralizing. Kids don't come with a manual and everybody has different opinions. You just have to raise them the best you can and hope it all works out. My favorite sayings to her are "Well, if you really want to do it, but I don't want to hear you cry if you get hurt" and "Suck it up, Princess."

Our cable company doesn't have AMC, but I got her season one DVD I think for Christmas last year.

[Odie]

As far as Zombies, here is a link to real life zombies. Just goes to show real life can be stranger than fiction.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...cience-brazil/