Testing a new product for kids—Nimble: Hero Club
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Hey everyone, I've got something new today (we'll be back to our normal programming with the next update) pre-alpha rules for what I've been code naming "Kid Nimble."
The Working title is Nimble: Hero Club, and it's for 8–14 year old kids to play with their parents, middle school programs, libraries, etc. To introduce them (and their parents/teachers) to TTRPGs in a not boring way! (as well as a sneaky way to reinforce, reading, math, social skills, problem solving, etc.)
I recently ran a session (of regular Nimble) with my kids, and while they had a BLAST, and have been ITCHING to play again—they, frankly, understood maybe 20% of what was going on. It was all mostly above their heads. This aims to fix that.
The rules are most definitely not completely fleshed out, but what's here should be more than enough for someone who is already familiar with Nimble to run a quick 20–30 minute into session for some kiddos and see how they like it. I made a quick video explaining some of the thinking and design choices, one thing I'm keeping a close eye on is the level of complexity—I don't want it to be too oversimplified, nor too complicated.
I don't know that this will ever become a "real" product (and judging by the recent survey response, it likely shouldn't!), but I'd like it to be.
Thanks, as always for your continued support. I've got this out of my system for now, back to regular Nimble development, I'm still neck-deep into subclasses and will be releasing some here quite soon!
Check out the pre-alpha Hero Club rules and adventure now »
–Evan
6 comments
I would absolutely love something like this. My own kid is only two and a half years old but once he’s old enough I want to introduce him to ttrpgs and this seems like a great way to do so and not be overly complex.
I had my 8 yo son play a few combats with the Nimble system as a berserker, and he’s absolutely hooked, just like me! Problem is, from level 3 onwards, there’s too much for him to keep track of. The fact english is a foreign language to us, doesn’t help either, and translating it for him is a bit of a hassle. Me and my fellow TTRPG enthousiasts can read english perfectly fine, but it’s not that easy for our youngsters at that age. So maybe a kids version that’s even more easy to understand than the already amazingly streamlined Nimble system? i’m curious what you’ll come up with!
I’d frankly love this! Already really excited to run nimble for my friend groups and an even simpler version for kids sounds amazing. Yet to watch the full video so I’ll see what the details are but I’ve been really impressed with your companies design.
Have you taken a look at https://www.dndadventureclub.com – I’ve played this with my kids. Started when the youngest ones were about 7 and they loved it. I would say 1. This would be a good idea of the same thing you’re doing, but for regular 5e. 2. This is also for me to encourage you to do this for Nimble – given how much of a blast we had doing this with regular 5e rules.
Looks amazing, is there going to be an spanish version?