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Review of Roll for Initiative, a middle grade book about friendship, self-confidence, and D&D!

Roll for Initiative by Jaime Formato is a middle grade book all about making friends and finding oneself with some help from D&D! It follows the story of Riley as she rolls with life’s changes when her big brother (and D&D DM) moves away for college. She grows, makes friends, and starts running her own campaign… and, especially when her brother comes back home and tries to run things his way, learns that she maybe likes taking the initiative.

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Review of 16 Mice Make Soup (MouSoup), a tabletop RPG for 2-16 MouChefs!

16 Mice Make Soup (or MouSoup) is an RP heavy tabletop RPG that works for up to 16 players (!!) and revolves around everyone creating a wonderful dish together that showcases each MouChef’s special ingredient to dazzle the judge with your fantastic creations!

Review of Questlings, a tabletop RPG for kids to bridge worlds!

Questlings is a tabletop RPG made for kids that flips between real world goals and fantasy world events as players go out on their adventures. Tap into your inner hero to face fantastic challenges to help your character complete their quest!

Tiny Tome, Tiny Review: Numbskulls, an all ages tabletop RPG about skeletons!

Time for some spooky shenanigans! Play as a skeleton masquerading as one of the living to help your necromancer creator complete their tasks, whether that be taking on the rival necromancer or going on a shopping spree!

Review of Eldritch Pets, a tabletop RPG for raising cute (and otherworldly) pets!

Eldritch Pets is a rules-lite journaling tabletop RPG that’s all about raising a cute and terrible little creature! Roll for random prompts that affect your pet’s corruption level and your character’s ability to handle said corruption as you delve into the world of the weird and oddly cute.

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TTRPGkids book review for So You Want to Be a Paladin!

The So You Want to Be a… series is a collection of books that pairs with the Questlings tabletop RPG! You can read about how you can channel your favorite character class in real life and see your inner hero from the game shine through!

Review of DnD Adventure Club: The Wilds Trilogy, a set of tabletop RPG stories for kids!

A full year after launch DnD Adventure Club is going strong with all new stories, characters, and mechanics! I took a look at The Wilds Trilogy and had a great time with my kid exploring ruins, racing through the woods, and rescuing the lost prince!

Review of Wanderlust: A tabletop RPG about saying goodbye

Wanderlust is a collaborative tabletop RPG about learning to say goodbye as you head off into the next part of your life (whether that be seeking the lost city of dragons or moving to a new school). It is a peaceful and melancholy journal-based game that, while still being fun, let my kid and me explore a new tone to our games, and showed me how much he’s starting to grow up.

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Review of Good Nature – a collaborative journaling tabletop RPG!

Good Nature is a tabletop RPG for kids that focuses on collaboration and education. There’s elements of rules-lite gaming and journaling fused into one game that revolves around a positive core set of stats and specific Common Core Anchor Standards educational skills. Good Nature is a great system for creating fun educational RPG scenarios for kids and comes with its own awesome premade adventure too!

TTRPGkids GRAPHIC NOVEL review: Dungeon Critters!

I had heard of Dungeon Critters before in recommendations and had been meaning to grab a copy when… I saw one at my local library! Needless to say, I checked it out immediately and had a great time reading this awesome tabletop RPG-vibed graphic novel together with my kid!