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The next step is to ask which of the four skills the character is best at. The skill Robot the Robot Boy is best at gets a twelve-sided die assigned to it, second best gets a ten-sided die, and likewise with a D8 and D6 for the remaining skills. And that\u2019s it. We were ready to play.
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I picked a sci-fi setting that would be perfect for a robot boy and off we went. We started off with a robot family driving their spaceship. Robot Dad needed help driving through an asteroid field. Luckily his son Robot the Robot Boy was a skilled spaceship driver. I asked him to roll a die – a two! Anything three or lower is a failure – the spaceship crashed. Next the family needed to fix the spaceship but the top of the ship was too high up to reach. Luckily Robot the Robot Boy was skilled at flipping. A good flip should get him right up there. We rolled another die – success! Suddenly the ground started shaking and a monster was coming out of a crater in the asteroid. This seems like an exciting moment, but it was too late, I had already lost him. I asked him what he would do next and instead of a cute idea was told \u201cI want to play with my toys now.\u201d Ok. I tried. We\u2019ll revisit another time and maybe I can hold his attention for a little longer.
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A little later we were looking at the monster manual again and he asked me to draw a Flame Skull. I haven\u2019t drawn anything in a long time but it turned out pretty decent! My first attempt at introducing him to an RPG didn\u2019t have him falling in love as I had hoped, but we\u2019ll give it a try again at some point. Maybe this won\u2019t be his thing, but I have shelves full of board game and RPG books, there has to be something that he\u2019ll like! If not, I have another boy following a few years behind that I can try with. No pressure little guy. I recently decided it was time to try what my son would make of it. So what follows is a three year-old boy\u2019s first RPG experience.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[23,30,126,38],"yoast_head":"\n
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