Wot's a sensible age...

[syrinx0]

My kids both loved playing with my GW 40K tanks when they were about 8 or 9.  They rewrote the rules as we went but it was fun.  My daughter loved painting my second hand armourcast orc vehicles pink and yellow.  The look on my gaming group's faces when I fielded them was truly priceless. Sadly they favored electronic gaming as they got older.   Though my son decades later started doing RPG's and asking me how to run them so you never know.

Go for it and have fun would be my advice.

[Harry Faversham]

Thanks chaps. My grandson's four, this year for his Birfday, I wrote and illustrated him a book about Vikings. Think Noggin the Nog here, daft stories and silly cartoons. I'm getting him the Playmobil Viking Fortress and Longship for Crimbo. I was thinking of taking a couple of dice with me for after Christmas dinner, see if I can fan the embers!


 

[jon_1066]

I think at that age the playmobil is great just by itself.  No need to have rules just play imagination games with him.

The book sounds like a lovely gift.

[syrinx0]

At that age daft stories, cartoons and dice should be a hit! Especially when your grandfather is actually playing with you.

[HerbertTarkel]

Thanks chaps. My grandson's four, this year for his Birfday, I wrote and illustrated him a book about Vikings. Think Noggin the Nog here, daft stories and silly cartoons. I'm getting him the Playmobil Viking Fortress and Longship for Crimbo. I was thinking of taking a couple of dice with me for after Christmas dinner, see if I can fan the embers!


 

A friend of mine in the UK has the Noggin the Nog miniatures - I hadn’t heard of them before; after he showed my email group the figures I watched a ton of the shows on YouTube. How much fun is Noggin?!?

[bobm]

I had a Dungeons & Dragons-like game that my kids liked to play when they were 6 and 9, it even came with figures.  My daughter, now 46, asked me yesterday what the name of that game was and for the life of me I can't recall...

Heroquest perhaps?

[Harry Faversham]

A friend of mine in the UK has the Noggin the Nog miniatures - I hadn’t heard of them before; after he showed my email group the figures I watched a ton of the shows on YouTube. How much fun is Noggin?!?

I've got them all too! Can't make my mind up whether to paint 'em up properly, or go full on old sowjer style, with gloss varnish?
 

[jon_1066]

I think the style of painting Hobgoblin does would suit them. A slightly pastel/watercolour style

https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=77384.0;topicseen

[Elbows]

I'd echo starting them with something akin to Hero Quest.  I made up a "custom dice" version of 40K for kids back when my nephew expressed an interest.

However, I'd also echo...they'll either get into it, or they won't.  My nephew (now 17) absolutely lost all interest.  I knew he wasn't going to be into wargaming when he'd see my table set up with my buddies with a huge, fully painted wargame underway...and he wasn't phased.  I'd have lost my mind as a kid seeing that stuff.

Nothing is worse than "forcing" your hobby interest on a son/daughter/niece/nephew, etc.

[MichelOnLead]

I think you can't intruduce it to him . If he likes cool if not leave it. Like @Elbows says there's nothing worst than forcing intrests on somebody

[vodkafan]

 When he was about 10 I took my son about 30 miles to play a wargame he enjoyed it he destroyed a Tiger tank and won the game. But he never wanted to play another one. I also took him and his sister to a Salute wargames show in London they loved it but one is now an engineer and one is an aspiring writer.  You can only show kids things you can't make them like what you like.

[FifteensAway]

Don't count young people out - wait until they get to around mid-30s with school, marriage, young kids behind them.  That is when you'll know if they are interested or not.

[Dubar]

Heroquest perhaps?

I thought that was it but looking at the game doesn't ring any bells.  I don't think there were any monsters in the game, only different hero figures.

[Hobgoblin]

I thought that was it but looking at the game doesn't ring any bells.  I don't think there were any monsters in the game, only different hero figures.

Dungeonquest, perhaps? Were these the heroes?

[Dubar]

Dungeonquest, perhaps? Were these the heroes?

Those figures look right, but I remember them as each being a different color with at least 1 being a female.

We need Sherman and Peabody's Wayback Machine!!!