GMing for Kids: Tips Aplenty

Martin-TT

June 4th, 2007 | Players | Printer Friendly

In GMing for Kids: An Actual Play Report, I mentioned that I wished there was more comprehensive advice available on this topic. Lots of GMs have kids, and assuming my future kids are interested in gaming, I’ll be curious about this myself before too long.

Katrina Middelburg-Creswell’s Role-Playing Games and Kids lays a great foundation — it’s full of practical tips, and it’s easy to tell that they come from experience.

If you have kids of your own, jump straight to the second half — the first section is about informing parents about gaming, and is more geared towards folks in a classroom or youth group setting (like Katrina’s previous article, Starting and Running a Role-Playing Games Club).

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Martin-TT

"Martin Ralya (TT)" is two people: Martin Ralya, the administrator of and a contributor to Gnome Stew, and a time traveler from the years 2005-2007, when he published the Treasure Tables GMing blog (TT). Treasure Tables got started in the early days of RPG blogging, and when Martin burned out trying to run it solo he shut it down, recruited a team of authors, and started Gnome Stew in its place. We moved all TT posts and comments to Gnome Stew in 2012.

1 Response to GMing for Kids: Tips Aplenty

Martin on June 17, 2007 at 9:48 am

Good links on both counts — thanks, guys!

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