{"id":358,"date":"2006-07-21T12:06:44","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T12:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=358"},"modified":"2006-07-21T12:06:44","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T12:06:44","slug":"i-cannot-wait-for-kaylee-to-be-old-enough-to-play-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2006\/07\/i-cannot-wait-for-kaylee-to-be-old-enough-to-play-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I cannot wait for Kaylee to be old enough to play this."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Anvilwerks Online :: The Princes' Kingdom Preorder\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anvilwerks.com\/?TPKPreorder\">The Princes&#8217; Kingdom<\/a><br \/>\n<i>You are nine years old. You just had a birthday, and your brothers got you a puppy. The three of you are seeing the world from your very own boat. You are the sons of the King of Islandia!<\/i><br \/>\n<i>And only you three can stop the war.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><b>A game about children, adults, and ideals.<\/i><\/b><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s &#8230; DitV mechanics, playing young royalty in &#8230; a kind of Earthsea golden age (and I only say &#8216;earthsea&#8217; because it&#8217;s a kingdom composed entirely of islands &#8212; no other similarity).<br \/>\nBasic Dogs mechanics, but without the stats Heart, Acuity, Will, Body &#8212; in conflicts you start off by rolling your age in d6&#8217;s&#8230; and then you add in skills you have that make sense.  When you get Fallout xp, you just pick up more Traits &#8212; ou don&#8217;t raise the skills you already have &#8212; so that your sheet quickly becomes the history of everything you&#8217;ve learned.  Escalations in conflict are smaller things, more personal&#8230; dice pools are smaller&#8230; violence is &#8230; a lot more shocking and short and startling, when or if it happens.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s&#8230; sort of a classic YA fantasy story about growing up and making choices.  It makes me feel excited to be a parent.  I&#8217;ve already pre-ordered a copy (which gives me the PDF for free!), and I&#8217;m getting another one as a gift for someone else, later :).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Princes&#8217; Kingdom You are nine years old. You just had a birthday, and your brothers got you a puppy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}