Hi.
My children are aged 10 and 8. Can anybody recommend a co-op game using polyhedral dice?
They are fascinated by the sets of D&D dice that the game shops sell, but are not up to GM’ing themselves yet.
(I’m UK based and I’m open to easy print’n’play crafting activities too)
Cheers!
This was the first thing that came to mind:
Then I’m also aware of this but haven’t tried it myself, not sure if it’s kid friendly, but it is open ended and limited by the imagination.
Also I don’t think it’s kid friendly but the guys who made the dungenorator are working on this game that I’ve backed:
Which uses poly dice to represent the different heroes. Maybe for just a bit older? Then again I was playing MTG as a little one so who knows how quickly kids develop now adays.
Dungeon Hero is likely a great start. The same designer has a similar system for a paper craft dungeon crawler called Fable on your Table - it is near the top of my To Try list, and looks like an incredible starting package, with the most complicated part of the paper crafting (cool door frames) essentially optional.
I just a few days ago got a message from someone, that their 9 year-old cannot stop playing my game Dungeons of Doria. Playtests with interested children around me indicated that from 8 or 9 is a good age, even though we indicated 14+ on the box. Especially if your kids speaking natively english and are interested in D&D likes, that should work.
It is close enough to D&D and cooperative, though more focused on combat encounters and not a lot of RPG in it. But might be worth it. Descent, Bardsung and some other board games also have polyhedral dice, though often not numbered and with special symbols.
Oh, and the D&D Adventure Boardgames might be the closest you can get in a cooperative board game - and pretty cheap to get nowadays too 