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Map of Pontypandy in Fireman Sam

I want to introduce my children (small single digit ages) to tabletop-style role playing games, but they’re a little too young for the full deal. Instead, we have experimented with creating interactive stories where I give the children an objective, I narrate but pause frequently to let them make choices, and then I come up with consequences of those choices.

I want to introduce my children (small single digit ages) to tabletop-style role playing games, but they’re a little too young for the full deal. Unfortunately, either I’m a terrible narrator, or my children still don’t have enough verbal skills and short-term memory to engage with the adventure. We also discovered a few inconsistencies where magnified helicopter views disagree with the satellite-style imagery we’ve used for the above image.

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