That's the conclusion i have reached today after the sprinklings found a large box of stuff in the 'gaming dump' (or section of the utility room where Mrs Sprinks feels the 'little men' are out of visitor eye shot!) that i had put there over a year ago. The box was full of half made Robogear stuff i snagged in a cheep ebay lot with a view to doing some sci-fi stuff with 1:72 moderns and massive stompy robots!. The lot contained several aforementioned 'bots along with spider type walkers, flyers and some infantry (about 60 of the buggers). Most of the bigger stuff came built but the foot sloggers were still on their sprues save a few i put together after receiving the box. The kids were having a rummage through dads toys (one of the benefits of having unpainted soft plastic is that they cant do too much harm messing with my stuff!!) when Sprinkling 3 'the revenge' came upon said box. He pulled it open and let out a 'WOOOH COOOOOLLLLL!!!!!' in a way only a six year old boy that's just found a box of robots can and rushed to get his brother. Next thing i know the whole box had been emptied on the coffee table and the boys were crackling with barely suppressed energy!. Then they got to the bottom of the box and found the sprues of troopers. 'Daddy what are these?' asked Sprinkling two, 'son of Sprinks' to which i replied 'bring it over here and i'll show you'. Next thing you know:
They are banging out figures of their own!.
HES QUIET!!!!!!, just look at the concentration!.
Because the minis snap together i just left them to it to do what they wanted with them and they sat together for over an hour knocking out mini after mini........then they really surprised me!.......
'Daddy' said Sprinkling three as i was getting ready to start making dinner, 'can we have the grid?' (the grid is the name they use for my hex board). 'Why?' i answered (rookie parenting mistake number 400001). ''We want to make up a game' he said. He was not kidding!:
They pressed me for dice and wound markers too and i could hear them discussing rules for saving throws and ranges from the kitchen!. I sniffed back a fatherly tear or two (nothing to do with chopping onions) listening to them, and i even heard Sprinkling three say to his brother 'its o.k. you have line of sight'!. See told you, DNA!. Right, Im off to listen to 'Cats in the cradle' just to feel smug!.
You want to get yourself some blimmin Robogear Harry!.......
.........Till next time........
Fantastic stuff. Something to be proud of, especially if they understand damned line of sight rules!
ReplyDeleteMy daughters were both into D&D back in the day. They had the wierdest characters but it seemed to work. I do remember one game where they had to go to a vampire's lair (a classic one, rather than a straight d&d one), and take it out. Instead they realised that he was also a city official, and arranged a fancy dress party, inviting him, and ensuring that all those invited had party bags - consisting of stakes and garlic...you can guess how that ended!
Worse was the fact that my youngest wrote the 'unused anti-vampire party bag' on her character sheet, and was able to use it on another unsuspecting bloodsucker several levels later...sigh...kids today, eh?
That's awesome, kids do think around these thinks in the funniest way its great to see, and to keep stock and know you have a bag left over is great (did someone fail to attend?). I am planning on attempting an RPG with them at some point, may be bringing that forward on the back of that story!.
DeleteGreat work Mr Sprinks, top parenting there.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jack, really it was all them I just held back and left them to it!.
DeleteYou have to take credit for the influence. We have no idea where our (grown up) kids got their intelligence from but we claim it was from us anyway!
DeletePS The B, G & SH Lite rules are now posted as requested
DeleteIntelligence?, have you read this blog??!!!!. I will be right over to check BG&SH lite, looking forward to seeing how you went about it
DeleteOK I'm back, love the rules jack nicely done!.
DeleteAnd by check I ment to say check out!
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