Table Top / RPG Game Suggestion

Sobriquet

My 8yr old is always interested when I'm playing Achaea and recently we've had discussions about when I used to play D&D and AD&D is a teenager. I'd be keen to try this out one weekend and been looking into D&D again, but having been out of this for a few years, does anyone have any suggestions for something I can play with him? (and potentially his 11yr old sister)

If it can be done without having to buy a board game or pieces, all the better

tia

Matt

Praxides

FATE or Simple D6 might work.

Fate can be pretty light on needing much other than a story and a character sheets and has very quick (compared to D&D) character creation once you get the basic rules down.

And both are 'free', in that Fate is Pay-What-You-Want (or not at all)

While they title may be off-putting to your son, the rules in P&P make for a fun, less-challenging game to get involved in roleplaying and story development more than worrying about dice rolls, while still learning all the dice and basic mechanics of other games.

Orzaansyn

It depends on your purpose, on what your son and yourself would like to experience in terms of gameplay.

• If you want to experience roleplay without bothering too much about math, I advise you (free) Wushu. It is very simple to handle.

• If you think you would both enjoy more simple dungeon crawler, I'd try any of DND retroclones (or the original AD&D if you still have the books) and combine it with the dungeon generator. You may even print the map to play with figures.

Sobriquet

@orzaansyn - That second option looks good, especially the map creation.  

Kaden

Here are some games with minimal or no dice rolling and storytelling focused gameplay:

http://www.bullypulpitgames.com/games/fiasco/

http://lookrobot.co.uk/2014/02/12/one-last-job-rpg/

http://lookrobot.co.uk/2014/01/24/warrior-poet-now/

Note: they're also very flexible in terms of setting, if that's a concern.