In Questlings: RPG, players will play as one character with two personas, one as your kid form and one as the Inner Hero your child aspires to be! This game guides players and game moderators through a map accompanied with a storybook to give them a rules-light framework for roleplaying and building the story.
Not only will you have two personas (your kid character and your fantasy Inner Hero) but the locations you adventure through will also have two different settings, the town you live in and the fantasy world you pretend it to be.
Each character has Goals to achieve when they go through the story. Once the characters have gained 3 Inventory items, they can go to their location of choice on the map to achieve their goal using those items! Goals can vary from winning at a martial arts competition to helping clean up the environment in the town!
When rolling dice, players mark advancement when they fail at a roll, so they can build towards adding cool new abilities, such as rerolling dice or moving more spaces on the map! The fantasy persona is also there to help boost the child character's confidence, letting them unlock cool new things that they can do in the game.
- Easy to get into
- Quick play
- Great introduction to RPGs
- Colorful and different illustrations
- Ordinary kids transforming into heroes to go on adventures
- Ordinary town that transforms into a magical place
- Storytelling focus with magical transformations
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Objective-based — Players work towards objectives.
- Storytelling — Emphasis on telling the story and going on adventures.
- transformation — Kids have a hero form they transform into.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- these are games that sort of get across that sort of childlike sense of wonder and going on adventures in your own backyard
- this is like Toy Story before there was Toy Story
- these are awesome do you can you get any more 80s than this
- playing as kids kind of just finding stuff really really cool stuff