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#1 strand0 May 19, 2010 20:46:09	Interesting! www.examiner.com/examiner/x-6911-RPG-Exa... (Bits and pieces) W.J. Walton recently posted an article from his blog on the CAR-PGa Google group about the latest innovation from Wizards of the Coast, a version of Dungeons & Dragons for kids. Monster Slayers: The Heroes of Hesiod requires no previous knowledge of Dungeons & Dragons, and everything necessary to play is included, aside from a few dice, pencils, and other players. Play time can be as little as fifteen minutes or as long as an hour, depending on how many monsters are encountered... The game consists of hero and monster turns with dice rolls of 3d6 or d20. Each character can move, use an attack power, and a special power on its turn... Although the game is supposedly suited for six-year-olds and up, there's enough variation in the rules to make it something of a challenge for younger or less mathematically-inclined players. Still, it's extremely heartening to see Wizards finally addressing a need that gamer parents have been clamoring for decades. ......... pROBLEM - No Orc stats.
#2 Rustmonster May 20, 2010 19:45:09	I really enjoyed this, the drawings especially were absolutly adorable, but I do have an issue with how crude the map and badges look. They are absolutly awful and seem like they were done with 5000+ hours in MSPaint.
#3 strand0 May 21, 2010 16:37:37	www.fierydragon.com/downloads/counters_1... A may to make maps and tokens. It is wierd but interesting.
#4 thea_bomb May 22, 2010 11:56:18	Played it with my 10 yr old and 7 yr old daughter.  I changed all the characters to Disney Princesses and made all the Villians Disney as well.  Used their own little toys as the minis.  The 10 yr old was not happy and did the quick math to realize that the game was "just rolling dice 32 times" and quit.  The 7 yr. old loved it and I found her the next day trying to DM to my 3 yr. old son who was uncooperative. It was a little complicated for the 7 yr. old to understand but I made it work.
#5 mellored May 22, 2010 12:26:31	The 10 yr old was not happy and did the quick math to realize that the game was "just rolling dice 32 times" and quit. Hah, reminds me of when my mother made me play candyland.
#6 strand0 May 23, 2010 20:58:44	The 10 yr old was not happy and did the quick math to realize that the game was "just rolling dice 32 times" and quit. Hah, reminds me of when my mother made me play candyland. A 1o year old that can do that can jump to the 13 year old catagory and play D&D. :-)
#7 Lhikan Aug 22, 2010 16:27:18	I want to see more stuff like Heroes of Hesiod; while it's meant for kids, it looks like it could work great as a beer-and-pretzels kind of game too. As opposed to the Mountain-Dew-and-Cheetos nature of true D&D. ;)
#8 Josha Aug 25, 2010 13:11:43	I'm actually going to use said sub-game to introduce some of my non-gamer friends and relatives to D&D, if they can handle the rules of HoH than I'll show them the red box.
#9 DocRyder Sep 04, 2010 18:09:36	I want to see more stuff like Heroes of Hesiod As would I. I ran it for my friend's kids and their dad, and they really want to play again. I'd like to see some different character types and a few more monsters, which would go a long ways toward increasing replayability. I'm thinking they'll be bored with fighting the same old monsters over and over again.
#10 lord_rock Sep 06, 2010 11:56:12	wizards is definately trying to hit it from all sides: Practical guide to Monsters (art and booksy), Monster Slayers (the companion novel to PGM), and now a game to go along with it. Just finished the novel and it was decent for a kids book (I'm a middle school english teacher).  It even had a decent plot twist.  The artwork is rich and kid friendly in both books, and, by the sounds of it, the game as well. Hasbro is really pushing wizards to make dnd the new pokemon.  I hope the collectable card aspect doesn't leak into our game.  I will stop reading forum posts, stop buying books, and start my own gaming company the day wizards announces "power card foil packs" with different rarities of powers.  gotta collect them all to have the most fun playing dnd!
#11 jasric Feb 04, 2011 19:21:02	wizards is definately trying to hit it from all sides: Practical guide to Monsters (art and booksy), Monster Slayers (the companion novel to PGM), and now a game to go along with it. Just finished the novel and it was decent for a kids book (I'm a middle school english teacher).  It even had a decent plot twist.  The artwork is rich and kid friendly in both books, and, by the sounds of it, the game as well. Hasbro is really pushing wizards to make dnd the new pokemon.  I hope the collectable card aspect doesn't leak into our game.  I will stop reading forum posts, stop buying books, and start my own gaming company the day wizards announces "power card foil packs" with different rarities of powers.  gotta collect them all to have the most fun playing dnd! I've spotted booster packs for Gamma World which has completely put me off buying it.