Played my first game of Cheat Your Own Adventure yesterday and loved it! I want to play it with my nieces aged 7-12 but all the prompts I’ve ever seen are a little bit too grown up. Any suggestions where to find some more kid appropriate prompts?
Played my first game of Cheat Your Own Adventure yesterday and loved it!
Played my first game of Cheat Your Own Adventure yesterday and loved it!
It’s great to play with kids indeed.
When I play it with my son and his friends they easily come up with prompts. We go to to swimming pool, then it’s divers in cave tunnel systems, we walk through a forest and we are a monkey looking for her family, we are on a bus ride and so we play a safari race.
It’s great to play with kids indeed.
When I play it with my son and his friends they easily come up with prompts. We go to to swimming pool, then it’s divers in cave tunnel systems, we walk through a forest and we are a monkey looking for her family, we are on a bus ride and so we play a safari race.
Gerrit Reininghaus Do you modify the “death on failure” trope in these cases?
Gerrit Reininghaus Do you modify the “death on failure” trope in these cases?
Adam Minnie I usually do. Personal integrity is of importance for kids – the younger they are the more.
Often it’s straightforward what the failure condition is: in a race, the opponent gets too far ahead, in a burglary, the alarm goes off and the hero has to escape without the treasure, in a talent show something embarrasing has happened.
Btw, I have written a bit more for a potential future publication by the Gauntlet on the subject.
All in all, it’s a wonderful game with kids and my son’s favourite (next to The Quiet Year). You can play it waiting for the bus, on a walk, wherever you are without any preparation or material.
Especially if you have one of Dylan Ross’s legendary CYOA capsules. 🙂
Adam Minnie I usually do. Personal integrity is of importance for kids – the younger they are the more.
Often it’s straightforward what the failure condition is: in a race, the opponent gets too far ahead, in a burglary, the alarm goes off and the hero has to escape without the treasure, in a talent show something embarrasing has happened.
Btw, I have written a bit more for a potential future publication by the Gauntlet on the subject.
All in all, it’s a wonderful game with kids and my son’s favourite (next to The Quiet Year). You can play it waiting for the bus, on a walk, wherever you are without any preparation or material.
Especially if you have one of Dylan Ross’s legendary CYOA capsules. 🙂