My 5-year-old daughter loves this game! Super flexible and easy to get started, with entertaining stories.

We often play with 3 people (one parent DM, other parent plays a hero) but sometimes it is just the two of us, so I will DM and play a hero but leave all decisions up to her. She will happily play the Basement of Rats adventure over and over even though we purchased the additional adventures. But the repetition is great for learning as she gets used to how the game runs: we have been gradually adding in some of the game mechanics (like health/damage) that we left out initially. I have to keep things moving quickly so right now we do a simple dice roll for every action.

We use Lego people for the heroes (and NPCs when possible), and playing with them keeps her pretty busy while I am setting up the game. We also added in Lego treasure chests with things like magic wands and treasure. I also bought some inexpensive rainbow dice which she just thinks is amazing. At the end the innkeeper rewards the heroes with a treat which is usually a cookie - occasionally we remind her of this to keep her on task and finish the adventure, but usually she is so wrapped up in playing she forgets all about it.

I'm really excited to see how her play style changes because there is room for things to get more complex as she gets older.

Hero Kids is great! I bought this a little while ago and finally sat down and played it with my almost 4 yo. He absolutley loved it. He loves playing with dice anyway and immediately wanted to create his own characters with their own powers, so it was great to have the extra empty stat blocks. He absolutely loved knocking down the paper standee rats on the map and was very worried about Roger. Afterward, he helped to heal the rats with his potions and made them promise to be good from now on and then they invited them back up to the tavern for a birthday party. This was simple and a great way to spend some quality time with my creative child. He actually stayed in his seat the whole time, too. Although, during most of it, he was jumping up and down.

Thank you for making this and we look forward to picking up more volumes. I highly recommend this to anyone looking for an entry level TTRPG for a younger audience. With a little instruction, it was easy enough for a 3 year old to understand and very simple to run.

Played in a couple of sessions of this so far and really enjoyed it. Pretty easy system to grasp and handles the tech level that it’s going for pretty well.

Good ability progression means that your characters improve session to session, but not with huge power leaps. More of a gradual skill upgrade, adding new skills as you go.

Would recommend for someone looking for something different in a skill based system, and the world itself felt a bit different from the usual post-apocalypse.

I've just run this for my group, and I'm jumping off from this intro story into a longer campaign. This is a good introduction campaign, really easy to get into with lots of easy to run bullet point encounters. My group like a bit more combat, so I added an extra combat encounter just as they reached the market town location (no spoilers). And it's free, so that's a bonus!

I gave this free version of Onyx Sky to my players to help them create their characters and it has all of the game rules in it. It's not a quickstart, it has the whole system. It's a godsend. And FREE!!

We're two weeks in to our Onyx Sky campaign now, and really getting into the system and the world. We've just wrapped up the intro adventure Salt City Dogs, so I'm building on that to continue the campaign as the player's characters head out into the world.

I chose Onyx Sky because we wanted a more serious post-apocalypse game, and without zombies and the goofy mutant stuff that most PA games seem to lean on. I didn't have much of a chance to dig to much into the campaign guide in the book before we started, but luckily the starter adventure gives a good overview of the setting throughout the scenario.

The system is straightforward and easy to build and develop characters. And it's got enough meat for interesting combat and adventuring without getting in the way with too much fiddly maths and exceptions and little edge case rules. One thing though, we're almost at the point where the players characters have d16 attributes, so I've ordered a set of d16 dice from eBay, which hopefully arrive before we're able to play in person again. We're playing online now, so we're using a dice roller which supports custom dice.

A couple of the players have been using the pre-gens, and the others made their own characters, we really appreciated the pre-made characters.

And for $15, there's a lot of content for the money, but I really appreciated that this isn't one of those games with 50+ pages of lore to read before you can even get playing! Highly recommended!

This was a true joy for our family tonight. I've never played a TTRPG before but always like the idea of it and thought it could be a good idea for my two boys aged 5 and 7. Sure enough they jumped right into it and loved the Basement O Rats adventure. I really loved seeing them use their imagination and teamwork to play through everything. I was able to host relatively well as a complete novice thanks to the rule book and prompts, though i should probablly setup a little earlier next time. Cutting out all the hero cards and monsters as we started was a bit much.

Highly recommend it.

I finally got my hyper-competitive 7 yo twins playing, by teaching them separately. They love it!

I've just taken them down the Basement o' Rats a couple of times. And they object if I deviate from the previous script. I've bought the whole expansion kit now, and am looking choosing the next adventure.

I like the dice system, using an "advantage" style.

Great intro for kids into RPG. Easy to play this has all you need to run adventures. I do suggest getting some figures off ebay to add to the fun, or use lego figures like we did!

This is great!! First of all - - Hero Kids is AMAZING. It's SUCH a great system to introduce kids (ages around 8-14) to TTRPGs.

But, if you're here, I'm sure you know that already! As for this adventure here - - I love it! I've been playing through it with my daughter, and we're loving it. Exploration, puzzles, combat - - this has it all.

I fully plan to use this with my elementary students as well - - - the puzzles are PERFECT for encouraging collaboration and problem-solving!

This adventure is very complete, with combats, puzzles and exploration. The puzzles (from the challenge pack) add more fun along the way. The text boxes provide an excellent setting. Finally, it is a very easy adventure to lead.

I started playing this today with my son, and I can already tell this is going to be one of his favorite games. He is only 2.5, but he was able to follow along (with some grown up help) for a good 20 minutes at a time. We had a blast playing with is squirrel healer, Nutsy, and my husband's turtle tank. Definitely recommend, even for really young children.

Couldn't be more pleased with this unique, brilliant card game! It looks amazing, and the design is really smart. Cooperate with friends or go it alone in a modular game world riddled with hordes of walking dead! Basic mechanics and strategy are easy to pick up and teach new players. The rule about discarding any item for a last ditch effort to reroll helps stave off the deadliness of unrelenting zombie hordes. (Don't forget to respawn new threats when revisiting locations!) The cards themselves are really beautiful with great art and flavor text to immerse players in a ruined world. Replay value is pretty terrific with multiple different scenarios and randomized world-map layouts. Although the 'dice cards' are fine in a pinch, I recommend playing with real dice. You can use anything for the player tokens, we generally play with grubby old coins. It's helpful to lay down a tablecloth before setting up to avoid scratching or bending up cards as you flip them over. Five stars for sure, this game is rad and I wish there were more like it. What would be really cool is if Hero Forge released an expansion of some kind, maybe with more scenarios, different locations, new survivor characters. As solid as it already is, the game feels expandable. It may even accommodate an alternative ruleset to open up a secondary play mode that's less focused on world-maps and more akin to a faster paced competitive poker style game. As it stands though it's really superb, definitely grab it for a quick and engaging way to scratch that zombie-killer itch!

Really well crafted system for kids! Simple and engaging. Great job, Mr. Halliday :)

Loved reading this fun book. It reminded me of Jumanji, where you get sucked inside the game. Collecting coins, goblins and adventures will be enticing for young readers. Great book!