For the past 6 years I’ve been biding my time, waiting for my youngest son Niklas to be old enough to start role playing with him: Tonight that came to an end.
Niklas and I have played games together since he was only a couple years old, but RPGs are something I’ve held off on until he was old enough to understand some basic rules. In the past few weeks we’ve been listening to the audio book verison of The Spiderwick Chronicles and that’s really sparked his interest in faeries. I’ve owned the Faery’s Tale RPG for about a year now and so tonight we gave it a try. We spent about 20 minutes making his character. In the end he decided to play a Pixie (because they can fly) which he then promptly named “Spriteflyer.” Spriteflyer is really good at magic, clever, and has a firefly insect companion. I hate to admit this, but that’s a much more creative character concept than I came up with during my first foray into role playing (I played a halfling….with a ring of invisibility….and a magic sword…..called Sting).
After our character making session we played a short adventure in which Spriteflyer discovered his friend Jack had disappeared up a giant beanstalk. You know where this is going: Spriteflyer found Jack in a cage inside the giant’s castle and freed him using his magic to unlock the cage door and then stealing the giant’s shoelaces to make a rope for Jack to climb down from the cage. Niklas even talked in character a few times which was really, really cool.
Ok, so now I’m hooked. Tomorrow we’re playing a more elaborate scenario (though I will still keep them to 30 minutes or so in duration because I don’t want to overwhelm him). After we’ve played Faery’s Tale a while I think we’re going to give Mouse Guard a try which is much more up my alley – he & I read the first graphic novel together this summer and we both loved it so I have a feeling that the Mouse Guard RPG will be a big hit.
I will have a review of Faery’s Tale sometime soon.
A contribution to the “Transitions and Transformations” Blog Carnival.
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