RE: Raising young Gamers Re: The GZG Digest V2 #1822

>Second biggest rule is silly is fine... zombie amazons protecting the 
great chocolate
>box temple from the heroic band of dwarf loving centaurs would freak
out 
some of the
>more straight laced historical gamers down here, but kids love it.
After 
that its a
>surprisingly short step to "Mum I did Napoleon's grand battery in show
and 
tell today!".

Good advice Beth - especially the "include them".

My youngest, used to love to just play with the individually mounted
28mm 
figures (yes, I had to have loads of glue and greenstuff handy
afterwards, 
but she tried) and terrain including the fairly robust big trees, a
celtic 
farmstead, an Egyptian House, and "baggage" elements.  She vene helped 
build the Farmstead which is another _really_ good tip for buy-in.

When I painted up a group of female RPG characters that play gradually 
moved into a skirmish game with v.v.simple rules.  Okay, the theme was 
almost always "the good and heroic girls freeing the enslaved
Nubians/Celts 
and fighting off Dad's horrible Egyptian Bowmen/Roman Legionairies who
are 
coming to imprison them all again" but she found it great.  And it was
only 
a short step into a Romano-Celtic RPG, with no real magic but hinted-at 
Druidic powers.... which she keeps asking for every holiday now.  :-) or

:-( I don't know, as I don't have the time to knock-up the adventures!

Strategy was only slowly learnt but it's a case of enjoying it and
playing 
so _they_ have a challenge which isn't too easy but can be fun (I
enjoyed 
it, anyway ;-) ).

It had already worked with her elder brother: he now acts as a GM/aide
for 
a participation game and regularly plays FT - so much so he wants to
take 
FT around as a participation game next year.

Success!

Tim Bancroft