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openstorygames · 10 months

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Kids Play TTRPGs

There are plenty of people who started playing D&D or other TTRPGs as kids. Heck, imaginative play (which all kids engage in on some level and in some manner) is central to what TTRPGs do. Roleplaying is a critical part of developing your child self as a person!

So what's the benefit of giving kids a rule-bound system like D&D, Quest, or Kids on Bikes? Why should kids play TTRPGs and not just make-believe?

TTRPGs teach boundaries.

Some of this depends on how a particular group runs, but a healthy TTRPG group teaches kids where boundaries are and how to respect them.

This can show up in lots of ways.

letting dice determine success

working within the limitations of a class, feature, or spell description

avoiding upsetting or scary topics, as requested by a player

offering trigger warnings and safety tools

accepting when a GM says no

respecting when another player says no

Some of those things are organic to telling a story together. Some of them are brought in to keep the game fun for everyone, like safety tools. All of these examples—and more!—help kids practice boundaries one step removed from real life, where things are a bit harder.

TTRPGS provide escape.

As adults, we think of TTRPGs as escape from the crushing reality we live in. We can free ourselves from the news cycle or our social media feeds for a few hours and pretend we live in a world where our actions are world-changing (and I'm talking saving-the-world-from-evil-powers world-changing).

Kids need escape too! Not so that they're living outside of the world, but so they can practice the skills they need to live within it.

It's way easier to advocate for your PC who's scared of creepy crawlies than it is to admit your skin crawls around your buddy's pet snake.

Kids can practice all sorts of social skills in the freedom of TTRPGs because those games provide escape and distance from the world they actually inhabit. For example:

admitting fears

facing conflict

handling disagreement

learning about themselves

experimenting with consequences (from stealing a loaf of bread to going full murderhobo at times)

setting goals and making plans

Games are low stakes ways for all of us to practice tough conversations or new social skills. Why not let kids get a leg up by teaching them to role play?

TTRPGs build confidence.

Practice makes perfect, and TTRPGs are a great place to practice your sense of self (while inhabiting a character).

As kids get more confident roleplaying their PC, they learn gain confidence in who they are and speaking from that place.

This doesn't look like adults might expect though. We think of the bard suddenly offering a grand speech, or the shy loner forging bonds with the rest of the party.

Kids gaining confidence might not look like what you expect (more on that another time), but TTRPGs help clear the path for confident, empowered kids. And that's something worth making space for!

#ttrpgs #ttrpgkids #kids play ttrpgs #gamer kids #growing up with ttrpgs #growing up with dnd #confidence #social skills #boundaries #dnd #D&D #roleplaying #roleplaying games #tabletop #ttrpg community #make believe #make believe is for kids too

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ningadudexx · 4 months

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Doodle of @legobowl 's human designs ( *u* )

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my jttw sun wukong doodles

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Doodles i forgot to post

She monkie on my kid till i lego! 😸 She season 5 on my january till i eureka! 😸

sorry 🙁 homestuck mentioned

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53v3nfrn5 · 5 days

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SONY: Japanese Exclusive ‘Pingu’ PS1 Controllers (1999)

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beebfreeb · 13 days

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I don't think Senshi would play Cooking Mama. He would think it's a great game for the kids to have but it wouldn't appeal to him like the real thing. He wouldn't play any actual cooking sims, either. He would play Tetris and Candy Crush.

#dungeon meshi #funny talking tag #He would LIKE Cooking Mama #he'd play a few recipies and say Oh that's cute #and give the DS back and say I'm glad this is encouraging kids to get into cooking :)#I'M SAYING THIS AS A COOKING MAMA SUPER FAN #I LOVE COOKING MAMA.#One of my favorite games. The state of my Cooking Mama 3 DS cartridge is DIREEE #and I can accept that Senshi would not play it #He is a mobile phone gamer.#He doesn't seem very tech literate but I mean that in the like...#He could use a laptop and update a cooking blog and that's about it.#If something went wrong he would have to get someone else to help him.#Falin built a gaming PC though.

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infelicet · 4 months

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snake boy performance 💚 for @hyunpic

#not the fact the big button only saves to draft if you open it on draft view. well good morning gamers and happy new year!#hwang hyunjin #skz #stray kids #kpopccc #dancerachasource #usertsu #uservasya #melontrack #usermoonjuice #userjinnie #bystay #createskz #.gifs #.500

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stevie-petey · 4 months

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we thought love was something (we weren't meant to find)

﹂ season two of "come home"

as you approach a year since will's disappearance, things seem to be back to how they were. you still have jonathan and the boys, hawkins is boring again, and you and steve harrington aren't really friends. you convince yourself that it's fine, but time can't heal all wounds, and you sure as hell have your fair share of them. when will starts having episodes and your brother hides a literal monster from you, junior year becomes a lot more painful than it already was. (and because you can never win, steve gets dragged into it). (more complicated feelings arise). (as usual).

episode one: MADMAX - what does steve fear more ? you or the plague ? currently it's you, some guy with an awful mullet stares you down in the parking lot (gross), nancy invites you to a party from your nightmares, and you become an official unlicensed therapist for will. yay for junior year !

episode two: trick or treat, freak - you and nancy have a bonding session in the library (kinda hot tbh), billy gives jonathan and steve a common cause to unite on: Protect Y/N, you're a chauffeur to a very sad steve harrington, and dustin uses will's trauma to his advantage.

episode three: the pollywog - you lecture jonathan about daddy issues and then have an intellectual debate about healthy relationships, you play Mr. Love Dr with Steve, nancy and jonathan go on a sick side quest (and actually inform you this time !), meanwhile: you're about to put a leash on your damn brother.

episode four: will the wise - jonathan is gone for one day and suddenly all hell breaks loose, your hesitant friendship with steve is already rocky (thanks billy) but steve is hot when he's angry tbh, you become a couple's counselor to lucas and max (sorry dustin), and you're now officially the world's worst cat owner ever. and babysitter. but what else is new ?

episode five: dig dug - you and dustin bury a body and con your mother into fleeing town, great sibling bonding time ! you play hockey with a monster, dustin gets ghosted by his friends, and now it's your turn to kidnap steve (technically dustin does, but you don't stop him) who later gives you some terrifying realizations.

episode six: the spy - dustin and steve haggle a butcher, you throw some meat at steve and then have a weird conversation about love, you stop dustin from becoming an incel, and then you wrestle some demodogs like any real woman would. side note: steve is hot protecting the kids.

episode seven: the mind flayer - jonathan is back and has a lot of questions and you have even more for him, the gang gets back together and ties will to a chair, you tell the kid a story to distract him from his demons, steve is a confused mess but at least youre with him, and someone makes a surprise appearance (her name rhymes with shell).

episode eight: the gate - you encourage nancy to take your place (everyone is shocked), you and steve are the newest babysitters in town, billy ruins things as always, tunnels are weird when youre concussed, you remind jonathan of an old promise, and when the snowball comes you make your own promise with steve that you know you can keep.

⌑ set between seasons 2 and 3

﹂ episode nine: the fall - surprise ! life still carries on even with minor brain damage from constant concussions :( on the bright side, you and the gang all become homies. meanwhile, steve grapples with the warm fuzzies and parental issues before his worst nightmare happens: you meet robin. the horrors !

⌑ status: FINISHED

⌑ season two title based on this song x

⌑ blurbs set within "come home" can be found here x

⌑ “come home” season masterlist

*note: this is a part of my stranger things rewrite, “come home”, and other seasons can be found linked above :)

#steve harrington x henderson!reader #steve harrington x reader #steve harrington x you #stranger things #steve harrington fanfic #stranger things rewrite #slowburn #angst #wdtai #m's writing #get ready gamers #season two is alllll about steve and the kids #this is the season ive been waiting for <3

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jeeaark · 3 months

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last shirtless silly I swear- Friendship power ref and Sexy pjs ref

I always thought it was a glitch when Halsin and Jaheira appeared in this scene, but maybe the tadpoles are getting stronger. Or maybe even tadpoles are capable of character growth and are now considering non-tadpole people part of the tadpole gossip family???????

Love how it was the ol' folks of the team that the tadpoles snitched to. Maybe they were all awake at the time. Having a 'back in my day' or 'kids these days' chat.

So part 2. USUALLY. I try to separate my patch 0 play to any patch 5+ plot-hole fixes. Because when nobody said ANYTHING after the tadpoles snitched on Greygold's ass, I had to play the rest of the game while going on a whim of my own interpretation of that WTF moment.

Had to surmise that maybe squid buddy somehow convinced everyone it was 'just a dream', so nobody wanted to talk about it. So. At least I wasn't too far off???

But, after hearing officially that the Emperor did a 'you-didn't-see-that' jedi trick, I thought of a funny so. I made an exception.

#bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #the emperor bg3 #bg3 emperor #bg3 comic #bg3 fanart #greygold #Now greygold don't have time to unpack ALL OF THAT #BUT they would definitely like to have A Talk about squid buddy trying to delete all of its blooper moments #like YEAH IT'S A BIT CONCERNING EMPS CAN “UNDO” MEMORIES BUT so can magic peeps and vampires and gamers(me) SO- whoamItojudge #one time Lae'zel tried to murder Greygold cause they wanted to explore the secret monk room instead of going in the artifact portal so-#had to reload! Say 'just kidding babe ilu lets immediately go in the portal' so-I GET IT EMPS #maybe squiddude just uses “memory mod” like any other adventurer idiot: when they fuck up

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sharptoothed-gaze · 3 months

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Thinking about Foolish and Badboyhalo’s deal and the ways the eggs have changed everything for these two immortals…

I’m thinking about how Badboyhalo fully expected Foolish to argue against his 1000 coins for avocados deal, and how he normally would have too! Everyone there knew it was a ridiculous price, which is why Bbh expected a negotiation.

HOWEVER, Bbh didn’t see what happened with Leo seconds before. When Foolish and Leo were walking out, she was moving very slowly and looked incredibly sad before falling to the floor.

Leo was genuinely really sad to not have those avocados because it meant she couldn’t make avocado toast. Her toast stand back at home is one of her greatest joys and is important to her. Foolish could tell how much this meant, and immediately left to find Bad.

Bbh expected a negotiation like usual for these two arguing entities, but this was different. This time Foolish was determined to get the one thing his kid really wanted. It became a priority above money and above personal pride. Bad honestly couldn’t have predicted that because in all of their lives shared together, Foolish has never had Leo.

#ah just some landduo thoughts #and how their kids have fundimentally changed them~#qsmp #qsmp leonarda #qsmp foolish #qsmp badboyhalo #foolish gamers #badboyhalo #landduo #qsmp text post

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minzbins · 1 year

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SEUNGMIN RACHA LOG EP.01

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matchamabs · 7 months

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i dont quite know where the idea of animal crossing came from but. man the pandemic had all of us playing it. kinda thought itd b funny if they did too u know,,, anyway someone save joe

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puppiiiowo · 2 months

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Waiter !11 Waiter.... !!! more platonic content of David giving Max much needed parental affection pls 🤬🤬🤬🤬 Also I like the idea of mum-Gwen with Spacekid, and I see Gwen and Max's dynamic more of a sister or aunt thing than mother. Also Nikki and Neil being step siblings is both hilarious and sad and I love their dynamic bc they were sibs from the start guys /j

#camp camp #cc max #cc david #cc space kid #cc gwen #dadvid #adopted max #NOT MAXVID shoo!#platonic #found family #secnd post in a day ik gamers

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gamer-comix · 5 months

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