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Bedtime Campaign: The Sword of Dreams, Part 1

This post is part of a series where I made the going to bed story of my son into a free form roleplaying game.  See the first post here and the whole series here.
While I’ve been doing Interactive stories with my son since I came back from Gen Con, not all of them were worthy [...]

Chatty’s Finds: Kids, Castle and Caves

During my daily luminotherapy sessions, I travel the net for some blog goodies.
Through Jeff’s Gameblog and through James’s Lamentation of the Flame Princess, I found a link to an outfit called Brave Halfling Production that currently supports some of the Retro-Clone games out there (i.e. New RPGs inspired by the rulesets of the Original late [...]

Chatty’s Mailbox: D&D 4e with kids

Yeah, I have playing RPGs with kids on my mind lately.  I’m ready to move on to new things but here’s another post in the subject.
Last week I got a very interesting email from fellow Montreal reader and blogger Eric.
Turns out that after a 12 year break from DMing, Eric bought 4e and decided to [...]

Bedtime Campaign: Brother and Sister in the Car Edition

Three weeks ago I was on a fairly long car trip with both my children.  I decided to test freeform storytelling with both of them to see how well young siblings could cooperate.
After quite a rocky start we managed to agree on some rules so we could avoid fighting and move our story forward.
Which comes [...]

Bedtime Campaign: Nico outsmarts Smaug the Dragon!

This post is part of a series where I explore freeform roleplaying as a bedtime story for my 6 year old son, Nico.
Chatty: So what do you want me to read tonight?
Nico: Can we play the story game again?  It’s been a long time and I’m sure your friends on the computer miss them! (Maybe [...]

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