>>13312838
The Ancient Blocks aka Blocks:

The first blocks that lived in the world. I'm guessing they are related to being dumb giants or titans, since he told me that they build the simplest things but are the strongest. All other races came from the Blocks. Apparently their aren't many of them left now (He only has a couple of them in his toy box).

Bump. This is relevant to my interests.

>>13312899
The Legos:

The most well known race. They aren't extremely strong but are the most advanced race. Legos can create large and intricate structures with their pieces and can even implement other races building pieces in their structures. Their main problem is that they have to stay in their structures at all times or will die, since their is no more air outside.

That seems to be a pretty awesome 7-year-old.

At the heart of every great wargame, at some point, was a 7 year-old with a keyboard and a full bottle of coke.

This is for your nephew, OP.

The Knex:

They are basically like legos except that they actually become part of the structures they make. The race itself is apparently the links between the rods. The older a knex is, the more it can link rods together. That's why there are different kinds of links in a structure. The older knex are in the center, keeping everything sturdy, while the younger one's are outside to build and extend structures.

>>13312987
I know right. At the heart of my homebrew lies my first experience with cocaine.

When I was little I always had a racewar between my legos and my knex. I may be a bad person.

When I was a kid, I created a whole lego RPG with only the nintendo power FF1 guide as a reference.

I made my dad play through it.

I know that this must have been his face through the entire thing, but I can't really remember myself. Still he played along.

I have a good father.

Magnetix:

These are aliens that have come to take over Lego world. They build structures the quickest of all of the other races and apparently can never die. Just like the K'nex, Magetix are actually the magnetic links between the structures. When I asked him if K'nex and Magnetix were related, he said no. He told me that it was just a coincidence. What the Lego and K'nex race do, in order to 'kill' Magnetix, is to trap them inside cubes. This makes them unable to do anything.

What is this kid, a philosophical savant?

My buddy's five year old invented a game with dino dice. It was simple, and basically resulted in rolling dice until you match, then setting those aside and rolling the rest until you match them. Pointless, right?

This seven year old will be reading the Foundation novels and telling us all about what they're actually about.

Ooops, I'll go ahead and make a quick name for this thread.

I'm
>>13313080
>>13313017
>>13312950
>>13312899
>>13312838

I call bullshit.
My 9 year old sister wouldnt understand even the concept of races or gods in lego.

>>13313040

So did I. Knex always had bigger, better ships and 'mechs but Lego always won due to plot armor.

>>13313091
>This seven year old will be reading the Foundation novels and telling us all about what they're actually about.

By the time he's 12, he'll have written the defining treatise on Ulyssess.

Serious Question: What does this kid want to be when he grows up? I'm thinking we have the next great game designer here, especially at so young an age.

>wake up
>check /tg/
>see this thread
Tell your nephew someone on the internet thinks he's awesome.

>>13313091
I was pretty damn impressed myself. I used to make up some dungeon and dragons fairy tales for bedtime, when he was younger. I really don't know if that helped him with this... his parents don't even play RPGs or TT themselves.

Anyways, that's it for the races. As for the gods..

rolled 2, 4 = 6

>>13312838
BS or not, and i believe you, i think your sisters son is awesome.

>>13313112
At fifteen, he'll have analyzed the texts of all major religions and consolidated them, bringing about world peace.

>>13313163

And before he turns 18, he'll have designed a RPG that is so flawless not even /tg/ can argue about it.

>>13313163
At 17 he will have invented the one perfect role-playing system, that scales and slots into any scenario you care to imagine and requires only an hour or so to grasp almost all the rules.

>>13313174

I'll believe this when I see it. People will make shit up and say they hate it, basically because it'll be new and popular.

When I was little I just had Z bot wars. Shit was so cash

Kids are smarter than we give them credit for- the truth is, they simply don't have the knowledge we do. The cognitive ability itself is a factor all its own.

Nephew, at 6, spent an afternoon building a fort. I'm talking 3'x3'x6' latticed construction. He stood on top of it and proclaimed his "doneness" in jubilation. Of course, the same kid built a throne for himself out of the same so he could "be King of Cats"- I don't know how to break it to him that he can't rule the world...

Continue on, OP. I am enthralled.

reading through this thread is funny

my first thought was that he would outgrow that phase pretty soon

i don't think i have the right mindset to be a fulltime /tg/ dude

>>13313104
Just to make sure you know, I'm basically taking what he said and fixing it up a bit to be a more presentable read. I don't think you'd want me to type, verbatim, what he said or you'd ger "Well There are A LOT of legos and ummm yeah A LOT more than the other guys"...ect.

Bob the Builder:
I guess how he acts in the cartoons is how he acts as a god. I've never seen the show, so i dunno. Basically the races build because they were made by Bob the Builder.

>>13313214
whooops forgot picture.

>>13313197

I tell you, even the trolls will gaze upon it, and for the first time in their lifes feel an emotion other than scorn stir in their blackened hearts.

>>13313174

Such a system would necessarily have to be simple and well-balanced. 3aboos would have a field day with it.

>>13312838
This is similar to the games I played when i was a kid, which required maps to keep everything straight and keep new players informed. The maps were pretty simply drawn, but had place names, a distance scale, and a bit of info. That way, the different structures I built which clearly all in the same room with seemingly no distance between them you knew were actually many miles apart in completely different environments.

Man it was so much fun. Tell your nephew he is made of awesome and he should keep playing.

>>13313230

It will be the fucking Goldilocks systems. Everything will be just right.

God... that's just... beautiful. Thank you Anon. You have given meaning to my day. So I'll forget about this thread in less than a week, but hey, let this kid know he made someone happy, if just for a moment.

Bill Nye:
This the other god that allows for the world to work, physics and such. His father has all of the Bill Nye shows on a computer and watches it with him all the time, so that's why he actually knows who this guy is. Kudos Dad.

The gods don't really seem to do anything. I think he just added it in their for fun.

>>13312950

>no more air outside

do I even sense nascent grimdark? God, this kid's a motherfucking genius.

>>13313279
$%#@&($ forgot picture again.

Tell this kid he is fucking awesome. Or autistic. Probably both.

I think the closest I ever got to that level at that age was my brother and I warhamming with our toy soldiers (brother is 1 year older).

"Nuh uh! You can't see him from there!" and flicking our hands open from a fist to simulate a grenade explosion. Anything knocked over was killed by the grenade.

I don't think we started doing fantasy worlds/systems until, like... 12-13. :(

>>13313214
>I'm basically taking what he said and fixing it up a bit to be a more presentable read.

That's what I figured, OP. It's well-written and I could tell I was looking at a joint effort between you and your nephew. Well done.

Fascinating as this is, I don't understand the non-believers. At its core all the kid is doing is saying "My legos are alive," that's not so unbelievable.

Did you play with him after he explained it to you? Are there rules to this game? I wish to make a real Lego wargame now.

>>13313358
www.brikwars.com

>>13313415

Beat me to it. Love me some Brik Wars.

Anyways, he has been making up for game for a couple months now and he was really happy to have me play it with him. Apparently, except for his parents, I'm the first person he has told about the game. I sat down and asked him if I could play. He wanted me to play as Magnetix. I got my pieces and he told me I'm suppose to put pieces together and move my structures over to his. Once their, I had to surround parts of his structures to destroy it. He had to make things fall on my Magnetix. If my structure broke, then my structure was destroyed. He did not really give me any specifics on how fast i was suppose to move or how fast i could build, so i just looked at him build and just went a little faster than him.

After 10 minutes of building, he started moving his stuff to mine and created 'lego balls' to fall on my magnetix things. It was a bit haphazard but actually kind of fun. During the fight, I asked him if we could take turns fighting, since he had dropped a few of his lego balls on my fingers. I think at this point, I had just taught him about turn based fighting. He dropped stuff on my magnetix and I would try to put stuff around his lego structures. He then told me he was retreated and grabbed the broken magnetix links and had created boxes to put around them.

OP, you are a good Anon and your nephew is a cool little dude.

>>13313104
Bah. I learned to read with the Psalter when I was five, it's not exactly impossible for a kid to understand this stuff.

>>13313455
I've been on /tg/ all day, and that's the best thing I've read yet. OP, you and your nephew are fucking beast.

>>13313358
Yeah, just wrote about it.

After my first time playing it with him, I asked him if I did a good job playing the game. He was told me that I did everything correctly but was too slow in building, so he couldn't fight as hard as he wanted (I da'wwwwwed inside). We played again and he started making more obscure things with his legos that made it harder for me to build around it, while i was building stuff to like the zerg. This time, I moved over to his place first and started taking over things. I was building stuff around his buildings while he dropped his boulders on me. In the end, his mom ended up coming and bringing him to talk to the other people because I was apparently making him too loud.

Anyways, I wanted to share the experience, since it was pretty /tg/ related and unique. Also, I was thinking of maybe bringing him either some dice for his games or maybe making some figured for his The Ancient Block race. What do you guys think?

>>13313415

Dude my old gaming club played Brikwars a lot. It was fun as hell.

>>13313590
>In the end, his mom ended up coming and bringing him to talk to the other people because I was apparently making him too loud.

AND HIS VERY FIRST NECKBEARD RAGE, TOO! God I'm so proud of that little fucker.

Oh wow OP this is so cool.

Having a cool uncle who really understands him is going to be fucking great for that kid.

also, post brickwars armies? Pic related, I just started, and cohesion is very important to me lol.

Your nephew is really cool.

>>13313590
Sorry, I meant figures* for his Ancient Block race.

>>13313557
Hehe thanks, though the kid should take the credit. He actually makes me want to have a child, when i see the little dude.

The thing I found interesting was that I could tell he was slowly developing the world into something that made sense. having to find ways that different races fought each other and why the world even existed at all. I think he added in the 'no air' part, because he only had minifigs for legos. Also, I believe he made the Magnetix and K'nex races to be the links because he had no other way of representing them, then slowly started making a nice backstory for why the races were the links.

Hope I made a few fa/tg/uys happy about my experience.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/science/bbe8/
Get him some of these. He'll love them

I wish I knew how to use the sup/tg/ archive.
This is way better than most of the shit on there.

OP your nephew is the future of trad. gaming.

Let him know we all think he's awesome.

>>13314894
Nah, just get the 'races' and make a 1d4chan page. We can add in stuff as time goes, then, tg gets shit done.

>>13315051
Archiving will help that.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/13312838/

So are Playmobil, Lincoln Logs, Brio and those giant blocks for toddlers likely to show up in future editions?

And what about Bionicle?

OP's nephew is awesome and OP should feel awesome in his stead.
Developing an actual game system with rules, races that make sense and a background setting is hard for grown ups and this seven year old kid did it on his own probably without any prior knowledge of wargaming beyond boardgames.
That's some serious creativity and some might say even talent right there.

The closest thing to this I ever experienced was a friends youngest brother we used to play with. My friends parents are both medical specialists and make quite a lot of money. Which results in a truly staggering amount of LEGO for my friend and his two younger brothers. They had fucking everything; Sci Fi, Pirates, Modern (with over twelve yards of electric railway), Medieval, Cowboys, Star Wars (five fucking X Wings, I was and am so jealous) and some of that Samurai stuff too.
Their entire attic was a constantly changing landscape of LEGO, with entire cities cropping up and dedicated building areas eternally filled with half-built space ships and what can only be described as land-ships.

Even when my friend and I reached out twenties, we'd still spend an hour or two each time I visited playing with his ten year old brother. The kid was always building something with some epic story behind it. He didn't just build a city for the sake of it, no sir, he spent a week building that entire nine feet square city just so he could play out the perfect bankrobbery and subsequent car chase.
But God forbid if you ever mixed two genres of LEGO together. Pirates didn't use medieval swords and there were no laser guns in the modern era. He'd notice even a single flintlock in his Samurai fortress and he'd patiently explain to us everytime why this or that shouldn't be there. The kid gave more compelling lectures about history than some of my current professors...

Hey front page! Glad people liked it.

>>13314531
I was actually buying him new races to use also. Should I do this, get him supplies like dice and dungeon master guides, or introduce to games like X-Com?

His birthday is Feb 15th, so i was thinking of getting him something that will be good for his traditional gaming hobby.

>>13315210
A good solid table.

I'm serious. Something stable, preferably with a well that he can cover if he needs to, and with room for pencil, paper, dice, space to roll the dice, and maybe a cupholder or two.

It's the one thing he won't think to get on his own, but will thank you for once he has it.

>>13314988
Will do!

>>13313590
From what I gather your nephew is just the sort of person pic related is looking for. At the age of 7 he surpasses most children in situational awareness, critical thinking, tactics, strategy, object identification and assembly, and mathematics. He's shown the ability to think quickly on his feet and create scenarios given a limited amount of time.

You've got a future general there, fa/tg/uy. Don't let it go to waste.

I don't see how he would implement elements of regular P&P RPG games like dice or guides, as this relies on physical actions. I'd say try to work with that rather than introduce what could be shoehorny confusion.

this is so badass for a 7-year-old to have come up with

>mfw this whole thread

>>13315302
Yeah, get the kid fucking with brown people's business and then shot. Gb2 /k/.

>>13313124
Sorry, I didn't read your post. I have never really asked him this. Usually he says a doctor or a microtrader, whenever his parents are around. That's because his parents are both of those professions. I've heard him say stuff like taxi driver, engineer, and scientist too though.

>>13315382

Could work, as long as the kid gets officer training. I'd stay out of it, personally, but whatevs; this kid will probably excel in any field he chooses to master.

Man, reminds me of how I used to entertain my brothers when I was like 9. I had a shitload of clay and I'd make all these little aliens and monsters and it was like Pokemon Star Wars. Aliens would capture smaller aliens and use them and swords to fight evil.

And the big bad guys were able to turn into Raptors.

...and the main race of aliens were blue with tentacle hair and always wore sunglasses. Their religion was based on Disco music.

>>13315244
I thought about doing something like this, though to a much smaller degree, but am a little worried because I'm not sure how his parent will react to me getting him a DM starter kit. I was thinking of something simple like dice, because I'm sure he can end up implementing it into his games, when i show him what uses a dice has.

>>13315349
Well, I figured he'd just implement it in somewhere as he sees fit. I'm not exactly trying to mold him into anything but rather just give him things that he can use for his game. I do agree that this game he made wasn't based off of rolls for combat but wanted to see if he would elaborate on the game more.

I'll start posting lego pictures again

>>13315382
>Kid joins army
>Displays immense intellectual potential
>Infantry

>>13315635
Or college

>>13315600
>http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/pokethulhu.htm

Try these, OP. Less likely to upset his parents, I think.

I'll fucking trade all of my nephews for yours OP.

http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/Products/default.aspx

Get him lego mindstorm. Its legos and electronics in one. This game he made is great but you need to get him into electronics asap. He'll need to learn more skills if he's going to revolutionize all that is traditonal games.

This thread makes me sad that I only have nieces who, although awesome, have no interest in boardgames or anything roleplaying related.

But it also makes me happy for OP and his nephew. Go team uncle!

>I've heard him say stuff like taxi driver, engineer, and scientist too though.

Taxi Driver? Please don't tell me that was one of the recent things he said he wanted to be. It would ruin my thoughts of his awesomeness.

>>13315914
Remember that he's 7. It's just him being a cute little kid as well as a creative genius; he doesn't have a complete understanding of what a taxi driver does or what being a taxi driver is like, it just fascinates him somehow in a way that may well be incongruous with the real world.

>>13313653
For my current one I have the grim reaper as my hero on his horse along with 8 skeletons with only a Heavy Weapon on each.

>>13315512
Hehe, glad I brought some nostalgia.

>>13315203
My nephews parents are pretty wealthy too. He actually has quite a lot of legos, k'nex, and magnetix but mostly legos because my sister is a lego enthusiast too. However, she likes to build modern houses (the exterior and interior) with them.

>>13315717
I might try something like this when he is a bit older. His mom is a bit overprotective but that might be subtle enough to get past her radar if I omit the pictures.

>>13315763
Hehe, now I'm imagining me giving him a box of those and him telling me that they will make the legos race too OP.

>>13315984
Agreed. whats the story on this anyways OP? did he just blurt it out or explain why he wanted to be a cab driver. did he explain why there was no more air in the world? your an awesome uncle btw.

Going to head to bed now. Thanks for the suggestions on his birthday gifts and backing up my nephew on his game.

>>13316242
It was last year. My mother asked him what he wanted to be. She asked him why he wanted to be a cab driver. He told her he wanted to be paid to be able to talk to people and take them where they needed to go. As for the air, it all turned into...WOOD. Just kidding. I don't really know. Maybe because lego structures were considered destroyed if part of the structure was torn apart and he had to have a reason for the minifig dying in that situation.

>>13313286
Now that I think about it, he did create a grimdark setting for legos.

>I used to make up some dungeon and dragons fairy tales for bedtime

Bumping this, in case OP comes back today. I want to hear about these fairytales you told him. And I'm all for getting him the dice. He's going to need to know how to use them sooner or later.

BUMP

This brings me back to 2001. I was 12 and subscribed to Computer Games (mag). There was some game on the cover, complete with an in-depth preview inside.
More importantly, there was a history of D&D prefacing the game. The game was NWN, and the edition at the time was 3.0
Reading through the history of D&D and simple explanation of play, I instantly fell in love.
But I was 12. I didn't know where to buy the books, much less have the money to spend $100 on core books... So I built my own system.

It started with maps - I got some graph paper from my dad, and initially would just imitate the Village of Hommlet map from the history article's first page. I drew more and more, linking the pages at the edges. I realized I could stack maps too, putting underground dungeons connected to the overworld by caves and buildings.
I started writing up a rules system too. Everything was based off the d6 (that's all I had), and I had classes, races, items, monsters; you name it.
I never finished it and I never got to play it with anyone, but I've been a system designer and a mapper ever since. Keep up playing with him, I'm sure he appreciates it in a big way.

ANYWAY
Buy him some dice. Dice are amazing.
It sounds like he's got a good grasp on creating his own rules already, so maybe don't introduce him to some complex mini/RPG system just because - if he keeps discovering or inventing new mechanics on his own, bring in a game that uses them as an implemented demo, but let him keep exploring without constraining or pigeonholing his creativity.

>>13317820
PS: Mindstorms are awesome, but you might wait a year or two more before bringing them in. Not that I think he can't handle them, but creating your own machines and getting them to perform actions is pretty much engineering and programming, and he'll be infinitely better at them with further developed logical skills from game creation.

Hey, just got back from work. Also, I called up my sister's house to tell him that a lot of people were happy with his game. I think I might go ahead and take some of these posts and print them with his birthday gift.

>>13316889
The fairy tales were about a dwarf named Oligarr Stoutbeard. Basically, he adventured to different parts of the world and helped whenever he could, whether on purpose or unintentionally. I tried to keep him as dorfy as possible but told my nephew that Oligarr drank milk and chocolate milk instead of alcohol. Told him a story or two every week for a year and a half before his parents had to move to a different town for my sister's job.

>>13317820
I'm going to go ahead and order these dice for him:
http://www.amazon.com/Q-Workshop-Polyhedral-7-Die-Set-Steampunk/dp/B0034C5YM0/ref=sr_1_31?ie=UTF8&am
p;qid=1293578396&sr=8-31
I'm still looking for a dice bag though. I'm also considering giving him one of my monster manuals too. Think he might get a kick out of that. I do agree with you too. He's having fun with what he's doing, so I just want to give him things that he can add to it.

>>13313104
Your 9-year-old sister is retarded. So sorry.

I just got those dice for Xmas. They're awesome and the quality is very nice.

>>13319286
Good to hear.

Going to get this dice bag for him too.
http://www.amazon.com/3-75X4-Black-Velvet-Satin-Lining/dp/B001600DNM/ref=sr_1_4?s=toys-and-games&
;ie=UTF8&qid=1293585066&sr=1-4

It gave me a warm feeling when I came home from a long day of being out in the rain and finding this thread still going.

Yea, I approve of those Steampunk dice. I just got those too and I really like them.