Posts – TTRPGkids

TTRPGkids Featured Projects: Animon Story

For anyone who grew up with games and shows like Pokemon or Digimon or wants to share this type of adventure with their kids, Animon Story is a great TTRPG that lets you befriend and train amazing creatures as you explore the world in your journey together!

examples of toys and kitchen things used as game props for inventory

TTRPGkids Tips and Tricks: Tracking items and managing inventory in TTRPG’s with kids!

Remembering to use your items in game can be a challenge for kids or adults – here are some tips and tricks for keeping item tracking easy enough for kids to do on their and accessible enough that any player will remember to use their inventory!

TTRPGkids game review: UNLucky Adventurers

UNLucky Adventurers is a card game based TTRPG that is made for some quick and easy to play kid-friendly games! From the quick high-risk cards to amazingly weird creatures to the funny flavor text, this game was a joy to play!

Where to find: TTRPG and D&D inspired books for kids, families, and classrooms!

This list of books was made to help you find some TTRPG and D&D books and stories for the whole family that aren’t adventures to be played, but are adventures to be read so you can foster reading skills and connect with TTRPG’s in a whole new way!

TTRPGkids review: Princess World

Princess World is an amazing story-driven game for the princesses at heart from fairy and pirate princesses to skater and space princesses! Join forces with your group to support the Princess Council, fend off The Fade, and be awesome together!

TTRPGkids game review: Sodalitas

Sodalitas is a TTRPG SRD that is designed for quick set up, easy comprehension, and fun gameplay with kids! It is well-suited both for playing with kids at home or running short sessions with an after school group, and it pairs up with a full set of 1-page premade adventures!

Tips and Tricks: DIY dice roller crafts you can do with kids!

My kiddo will get VERY enthusiastic about rolling dice while we play and… half the time they end up across the room with the cat batting and chasing them under the couch. Here’s a few dice roller crafts that I’ve made with kiddo to help keep the dice on or near the table and help with tracking which ones to use!

Interview: Adam of Game to Grow and Critical Core!

I had a wonderful talk with Adam, about both Game to Grow, a non-profit organization that uses therapeutic gaming to help youth, and Critical Core, a 5e based game specifically designed for building social skills and confidence through gaming. This was a great chat, I learned quite a bit about educational gaming, and I am happy to share our discussion with you!

TTRPGkids game review: Gangs Jr.

Gangs Jr. was my first foray into playing wargame style TTRPG’s, and it actually worked really well as an introduction for myself, in addition to being a lot of fun for my kid. We ran a very fun water balloon fight across a map covered in blocks and toys, and loved the simplified system for getting both a newcomer and a little one into a new type of gaming.

TTRPGkids game review: Jump Rangers

Jump Rangers is a full game system (complete with gear, a creature list, lore, characters, and stories) that plays out like an epic space opera! The storytelling was great, and kiddo loved using special powers to resolve some exciting scenes – go high and go far, Rangers!