MaidRPG.

No.

Let her play nWoD

just come up with something on the fly. use d100, have her beat a difficulty, during character creation you just say "okay you're really good at jumping, write that down" and then when she wants to jump really far you have her roll and if she rolls reasonably well she does it and if she doesn't, hilarity ensues. Really i mean, it's not much of a system, but since she's 8 you pretty much just need to use it as a medium to tell a story.

>>3941796
uhh, you could try exalted?

Eat the bike, rape the pizza, sell the girl

Mouseguard?

Forget about explaining her all the silly rules. Just ask her what she'd like to do and how, then do the dice-rolling yourself.

Just do all the harder stuff for her and focus on the story. Don't even let on that the harder stuff exists and make sure the narrative and explosions are the main deal

Mouse Guard

Honestly, just have her play D&D or one of its variants. My GF has been playing D&D since around that age, and my sister taught me how to play at about that age too (I only played once though). Just start with the really simple things and work your way up as things come up. Have her play a fighter or rogue first though since casters are complicated and rangers/monks/paladins have to deal with more special abilities on a regular basis (and then two of them have spells later).

Honestly, just have her play D&D or one of its variants. My GF has been playing D&D since around that age, and my sister taught me how to play at about that age too (I only played once though). Just start with the really simple things and work your way up as things come up. Have her play a fighter or rogue first though since casters are complicated and rangers/monks/paladins have to deal with more special abilities on a regular basis (and then two of them have spells later).

If she is a average/somewhat-above-average 8-yr-old then she should be fine. She'll just likely be a bit slow on adding things up.

>>3941854
>>3941864

Damn it.

How is D&D easier than roll as many dots as this+that? As long as you help making the sheet and tell her what to roll you should be fine.

>>3941839
Sorta this. Tell her what to roll, but let her do it.

>>3941796
Use nWoD. Innocents (which allows for child characters) if you have a copy, but otherwise just run mortals. Tone down some of the grit and just run a ghost story or something.

>>3941819

This.

DARK HERESY

Seriously though, tell her a little bit about each setting and ask her what she would like to play. Then just make a game around her choice; World of Darkness vampires would probably be really scary if she was playing a mortal, but if she's playing a Gangrel or Brujah and knows she's a vampire too (and not only that, she can probably beat up any vampire who gives her lip) it's a lot less upsetting.

sword and wizardry second edition, whole character is on an index card and you can make what ever monsters you want to have her fight

>>3942164
>>3942126
either is a good start

>>3942126

This would be best

I think this would be the best.

There are no dice involved, and you can easily tailor the game to an 8 year old's liking by making her domain be something like nature or pretty art.

Plus the game system is one of the simplest I have seen.

>waste of an anus

>nicest total whore

>White Wolf and D&D

You are the best role model in history, and I sincerely mean that.

Something to look at here OP is that if she DOES end up liking it, and wants you to GM for her a lot, The setting you choose now could have a serious effect on what she likes as she ages.

nWoD gets you a vampire-obsessed gothy niece, or if you roll a nat 1 on your inspire awesome check, a *shudder* twilight fan.

DnD can get you a few results, though lets be honest, we wish to be the little girl, but the little girl wishes to be the elf.

Exalted could get interesting, giving her a taste for over-the-top theatrics more than other systems, and the very concept of an 8-year-old thinking about exalting gives her a +2 to her natural mary sue aura.

CoC... hehehehehe. YEs. PlAY cAlL OF CthuLHu with heR. SHE wILl lOve ITTTTTT.

FATAL

>>3942281
>hehehehehe. YEs. PlAY cAlL OF CthuLHu with heR. SHE wILl lOve ITTTTTT.

... Why did I actually find that creepy?

>>3942295
because loli loev shoggoth?

>>3942308
No shoggoth loli's loev

>>3942120
I suggest this simply because it was the books she was reading earlier and saying it's in a modern setting there's less to digest. On the other hand, fantasy could be more... well, fantastical. The idea is to get her into the idea of rules and limits she has so that she doesn't go into play pretend mode, but not so much that it becomes booooring to her. You're lucky in that girls mature a bit more quickly and have longer attention spans.

OP here; update.

So niece is here for lunch. I've settled on D&D, with the more nitpicky rules tossed aside; I figure it'll be good to let her roll some dice and get a feel for it. I tell her I've got a couple of story ideas, and I ask her, "Okay, do you know what kind of person you want to play?"

She says, "Can I be a princess?"

That's fucking adorable. So I say, "Sure, you can be a princess. Do you know what race you want to be?" and I give her the PHB with the pictures of all the races.

Guys.

She pointed at the female dwarf, and then she asked if she can have a poleaxe.

My eight year old niece is going to play her first RPG and she wants a poleaxe-wielding dwarf princess. I don't even know where she learned that word.

I have never been so proud in my life. Change of subject: What's the best way to kill your anus-wasting brother and his lovely bitchwhore wife so you can adopt your niece?

>>3942542
Sadly you can only be the uncle, but most kids love their crazy uncle more then their parents anyways.

>>3942542
Pole-axe wielding dwarf princess...

jesus why have i never thought of that. that's fucking hard core valkyrie shit.

>>3942542
Get a girl with achondroplastia to do it. With a polexaxe.

>>3942542
Read some greek mythology for ideas, they did that shit aaaaall the time.
Alternatively, insert subliminal "Kill your parents" messages into your game.

>>3942542

...I think you just experienced a real-life critical success.

Make sure the game is worthy of the epicly awesome character.

>>3942571


THAT is what this needs: moar Norse mythology. I bet she'd love that shit, too. Damn, that's cool, I gotta go look that up now.

On a completely another note, try and make it clear for her that hitting people with poleaxes IRL is a BAD THING and should not be done.

Oh, unless you still want to get rid of your anusbrother and his bitchgurl. Complete opposite, then.

>>3942678

Well, I doubt the poleaxe thing will be a RL problem for a few years yet. But hey, if it means I get to keep her instead of her going to juvie/looney bin for killing anusbrother and bitchgurl (thank you for that, btw, I will be addressing their Christmas cards this way) I won't complain.

>>3942678
Like she's going to find a random poleaxe hanging around. You can only find them in museums or renaissance fares as props.

Question: Your niece is 8, your brother's whore is 8 as well. How many siblings do you have and which is the oldest. No names, keep it anon.

Kids have short attention spans, so have more action and less plot.

>>3942726
>>3942736
Well, yes, no poleaxes obviously, but I was talking about the attitude. If your campaign contains plenty of violence, she may pick up some bad ideas out of it. You need to make sure that she knows hurting people is usually bad.

Not that the usual cartoon violence hasn't corrupted her already.

>>3942770
Some video game study actually showed that it's not so much exposure to violence in gaming that predicts a rise in aggression and violent behavior but rather how the game treats violence. Video games that rewarded killing with points and what not tended to increase aggressive behavior in kids, while games with violent content where it was either discouraged or treated as a take it or leave it thing (even with some situations forcing combat) seemed to have no effect on behavior.

>>3942770
Just make sure you emphasize on the whole, "You don't have to kill everything" but sometimes there are obvious bad guys that have to die.

>>3942736

Anusbro and his girl are both 26 (I think, she might be a year or two younger, I dunno. i do know she got knocked up in high school and that's why they're together at all.) He's the oldest, we have a middle sister (22), and I'm the youngest (20).

>>3942770

I'm pretty sure she'll be cool with that bro. I'll make sure she doesn't fight any humans.

>>3942830

>fight humans
You mean fellow Dorfs, obviously.

>>3942542
your a giant faggot for not letting her play nwod though

>>3942770
oh my fucking god, Am I the only one who remembers childhood?

ITT: NOO DON'T LET HER RPG WITH WEAPONS THEY WILL TURN HER TO SATAN!

>>3942840

Dude, I gotta save something for her sweet 16, I can't afford a car for her.

>>3942830
I think you're insulting her intelligence if you think she can't understand that some humans are bad and some are good. Fuck, even the Transformers fight bad humans now in the newest cartoon.

>>3942281
>YEs. PlAY cAlL OF CthuLHu with heR. SHE wILl lOve ITTTTTT.
Failest of fail.

ONE WORD

BOATMURDERED

>>3942916

Relax bro. It was a joke about cartoon violence. (y'know, you can blow up all the robots and monsters you want but you can't kill people, etc.)

OP. You have the best niece ever.

It fills me with a similar glee that I feel when I look at this picture.

Train her well, anon.

>>3943021
Now's your chance of making it certain that she knows it's not an excuse if they're not humans. You can make her know that those cartoons are being hypocritical bastards about it, and that all violence is usually bad. If there are battles, make her fight not only monsters, but humans and dwarves as well, and teach her about responsibilities and consenquences that come along with this.

Don't patronise her, give her a decent game and treat her fairly. Just explain how the game works and what to expect first. But don't be a fucking pussy and trying to 'cater' to what you think a kid should experiance.

>>3943223
This. Start getting preachy at her and she won't have any fun at all and get put off of RPGs for life.

>>3943132
You find a trio of handsome elf, human and dwarf princes raping a little peasant orc girl. WHAT DO YOU DO?

>>3943435
Good job taking everything to extreme.

Eh, if she's anything like the girls I've known, she'll probably want to be friends with everyone and invite them to tea parties. There probably won't be any issues with violence.

>>3943349

Dude, she's eight. She can handle fantasy violence. But I'm not going to run a game for an eight year old that's going to make her deal with shit that's going to make her paranoid about things she sees every day, or give her serious moral quandaries to think about. This is supposed to be an introduction to gaming for her, not a crash course in epic decision-making. There'll be plenty of time for that later.

(Case in point: Innocents, the nWoD game that's ABOUT children? One of the intro stories has a child abductor. I'm not gonna do that to my niece.)

OP reminds me of Sally from Darths and Droids.

>>3943453
That's how things work around here. But fine.

Maybe the "civilised" elf/human/dwarf kingdoms are enslaving every orc and goblin they can find, since they're barbaric so they're only good for working... and it's up to our little CG dwarf princess to revolt and start a revolution that will unite the races in happyness and rainbows.

>>3943465
Innocents, like Little Fears, is ironically a very poor choice of RPG for actual children.

>>3943465
And look at little fears. Cthulhu is for pussies compared to that.

Think about fairytales:
*A sorceress is sacrificing people in her lair made of food, until two young adventurers burn her alive.
*A vicious werewolf devours an old woman and now her grand daugther has to find a way to bring her back.

It can be a grimdark concept, but those are stories in books children everywhere! My point is: think about a good campaign (decent roleplaying with NPCs, plot twists, something you usually DM and shift the narrative to something more akin to the things you see on films of Hayao Miyazaki, Pixar ot hings like that.

>>3942542
pic realted

Spirit of the Century - character creation is very easy, very interactive for her, and a great deal of fun. The system is very flexible and easy to understand.

Basic Roleplaying - Percentile based, easy to understand, and usable for any setting.

>>3943695
You're thinking disney's fairytales. The original ones were as grimdark as it gets.

>>3943824
I remember the sleeping beauty had lots of rape. And that Pinnochio was a possesed evil puppet

PIC RELATED.

It's a simple casual combat system, it's LEGOs, there is instant destructive gratification and its visual. Alot of kids are way too hyper for a game of pretend anymore.

Just shoehorn a story plot around her squad and give each one a couple extra health points. Hardest part will be designing wacky terrain.

>>3943931
I want to kill you

>>3944457
>BAWWWWWW SOMEONE WANTS TO USE SOMETHING OTHER HTEN DARK HERRASY OR DND BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Would Monsters & Other Childish Things work with tweaking for an eight year old?

>>3944494
I think he meant because of
>Alot of kids are way too hyper for a game of pretend anymore.

>>3943897
Cinderella had the stepsisters cutting their feet off in tiny bits to get the glass slipper to fit, and the prince ordering them impaled, if I recall correctly.

>>3943931
This game rules. I myself prefer the 2001 edition to the 2005 edition (it's like comparing 2nd ed warhammer to 3rd ed warhammer) as it can more easily be scaled for RPG-gaming. Also, the 2001 superpowers chapter is just beautiful in its ability to generate spells.

>>3944699
this

an 8 y.o. could do 4e.

instead of going automatic and sending her on a mission to kill everything like any other D&D session, set her up in the fortress and ask her what she wants to do