today I met a friend of mine and she told me her 8 years old son’s school offers a weekly D&D group organized by a teacher and he loves it. He is a ranger and last week he apparently killed a dragon .
I was very positively surprised by that, I wish my school offered something like that when I was a kid
So I suggested that maybe she could buy him some D&D themed presents. I thought of Lego but apparently there is only one big set for 360€ and a set of mini figures for 70€.
But there are a lot of D&D board games too, I just wonder what would be a well suited one for an 8 years old boy. Maybe you can help me out (or with other good D&D present ideas).
The old Dungeon! boardgame (originally published by TSR, but available in a newer edition from Wizards of the Coast) is still around. The only question is whether kids of the 2020s look for something different in a game than kids of the 1970s.
Unfortunately it seems the newer edition never came to Germany. Though I like the idea a lot! But I saw a German version from 1986 and it looks a bit rough tbh. Thank you
The Dice Conquest games are a pair of lightweight D&D-esque card games with polyhedral dice chucking and manipulation. They play 1-4p (I play them solo, but recommend using at least two characters).
I have no clue about 8-year-olds. These games suggest 10+ years. They’re not complex games, though, so if the kid is into the theme and the dice-rolling (as distinct from the actual role-playing) then I reckon these might be worth a look.
I would actually say specifically not, not because they won’t enjoy it but because it’s parody, and if they’re still enjoying dungeon tropes they might as well have the enjoyment before they have the parody.
Do you know if they’re doing ‘theatre of the mind’ or using minis? If the latter (and possibly anyway, cos its pretty cool), get a Heroforge mini made for his character?
The mother doesn’t know much how it all works but she could describe to me that the kids are sitting in a park and just having dice and papers with them. So no minis.
I love the idea of the owl bear dice bag (but just a nice looking set of dice in a bag like Phil suggested would be a good present too) but I am actually not sure how much D&D lore the teacher uses. I could imagine she goes for the more traditionally known fantasy elements to make it easy for the kids to understand without a lot of additional background knowledge. My friend told me there are 8 kids in one group which astounded me because it seemed way too many.
I really would love to talk to the teacher how she is doing it. I thought about doing a pen&paper group in my own school before.
Thanks for all your input, I forwarded a lot of it (some suggestions were only in English or hard to get here)
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