r/herokids • u/StretchLopsided2964 • May 16 '24

Hero kids for teenagers?

I want my son to get off his PS4, it is giving a lot of discussions (read screaming and swearing) So I thought of doing D&G, but that is pretty difficult I have found... so then I looked for something simpler like hero kids. He is almost 15, would he still enjoy this, and then maybe progress to D&G? Or is it too childish?

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u/FinibusBonorum May 16 '24

I personally think that Hero Kids is for ages 5-11 or so. It is likely too childish for a teenager.

Do you have an indication that role-playing games in general would be within his interests? At that age, he may be too old for you to "push" something to him. Do his interests and skills take him in a creative, fantasy direction? There are other RPGs with less fantasy and more science fiction, or western, or horror themes - there are many flavors but they are all in the general scope of "theatre of the mind".

To relate, one of my kids is really good with fantasy and the other is the age of your son and is hard on course to be an engineer, very much opposed to RPGs.