Got this as a Christmas gift for our kinder-kiddo and he loves to have some one-on-one time with me as we battle monsters (and the M&Ms we use to track enemy HP are an added bonus). The bundle was a great deal…though after purchasing the bundle, another item (the Hero Cards IV) was added to the bundle, but is unavailable for download as part of my original bundle-purchase (despite being broken out as $0 within the bundle).
Having printed out the whole core rule-book along with the entirity of two adventures (BoR and Pirates), I wish I'd thought it through and saved printing costs by only printing the maps/character/enemy/item bits and then reading the PDF text off a computer/tablet/phone screen. Learned my lesson when printing subsequent adventures.
I particularly appreciated that it uses only d6 since we have oodles on hand, though I later snagged a free dice-rolling app for the phone ("Quick Dice Roller" for Android was my favorite after testing several) and configured a "dice bag" in it specifically for Hero Kids. It lets me set the stats for each player/enemy in a combat, and quickly get the results (it even says them out loud to cut down on those "the die that went under the table really was a 6!" incidents).
Would recommend for any RPG players with young kids who want to introduce them early in life.
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |