A game for children who love adventures
The best stories are the ones you make up with your children.
That’s the thought behind Amazing Tales, a story making game of roleplay and imagination for children who are old enough to have adventures.* With the very simple Amazing Tales rules to guide you you and your child can make up stories together, rolling dice to add drama and excitement for everyone
“I played Amazing Tales across Australia and New Zealand over the past 3+ weeks with my 10 year old daughter, Poesy, as we traveled the region on my book-tour; it was a huge smash hit (indeed, I often had to call it off when I was getting tired because Poesy never wanted to stop).” - Cory Doctorow
In the book you will find
1. The short and simple Amazing Tales rules. So simple a four year old will be able to explain them back to you. Flexible enough to cope with the most imaginative requests
2. Advice on creating Amazing Tales with your child. Including plenty of advice for parents new to roleplaying, with advice on the specific challenges of making up stories that work for kids, different ways of handling fights in children’s games and ways to keep magic magic.
3. Four sample settings for Amazing Tales, each with suggested characters and skills, tips for story tellers and ten story seeds – ideas just waiting to become Amazing Tales. Take a look at the four settings below.
Perfect for playing with kids
Amazing Tales can be played with a single six sided dice. But a set of four dice with six, eight, ten and twelve sides are recommended.
Amazing Tales was written to be played sitting at a table, curled up on a sofa or snuggled up in bed by a parent and one or two children.
Amazing Tales lets your children make up any kind of character they want, such as aliens, robots, dinosaurs, fairies, knights, cowboys or superheroes. Amazing Tales was also designed to require no preparation on the parent’s side. If your children are in the mood for a game you can grab the dice and get started.
The 96 page hardback book features 28 pages of full colour illustrations and is embellished with black and white line drawings throughout. Perfect for sharing with adventurous children to inspire their adventures.