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What is role-playing?

What is this game about?

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Attributes

Kid Type

What is my kid good at?

Example of creating a kid

The things my kid is good at, explained

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Rolling dice

Narrative play

Getting better at doing things

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Idyllic England

The Gang

Language

Useful items

Birthdays & Christmas

Brothers & Sisters

Pocket money

Playing the game

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The Big Top Adventure

The Mystery of the Haunted castle

The Mysterious Manor

The Kid Nap Caper

Camp Raids

The Secret of Demon Rocks

( Note. Many of the above sections are only available in the full version)

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What is this game about?

You are a 13-year old kid living in Idyl-

lic England. Idyllic England is an unreal

place, a sort of fantasyland along the

lines of those versions of England,

which appear in such works as The Fa-

mous Five, Swallows and Amazons and

The Secret Seven. In Idyllic England

the time period doesn't really matter -

suffice to say that kids ride bicycles not

BMX's, they read books such as 'Boys'

Own Adventures' since there is no such

thing as Sega or Nintendo and most im-

portantly they never swear and are

rarely rude to grown ups.

All right, you may ask, but this is a role-

playing game so what is there to do?

Well, there are camping hols a plenty,

mysterious smugglers caves to explore,

ghostly haunted houses to poke around

in, secret passages in ruined castles to

discover, all manner of suspicious vil-

lains to report to the police for real (and

imagined) crimes. Nasty people can of

course be spotted a mile off, and every

circus that comes to town holds its own

mystery to solve. And, once solved PC

Plod is always on hand with his trusty

bicycle to arrest the villains of the

piece, or to clip the kids around the ears

for wasting his time (without the possi-

bility of being hauled before the court!).

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Attributes

they learn more and therefore become

more clever.

To play in an rpg you need to create a

character, that is the persona that you

pretend to be in the game. In LoGB the

character you need to create is a nosey

kid. Kids are initially defined by 4 at-

tributes . These attributes are rated on a

numeric scale, where the higher the

number the better. They help to deter-

mine how well each kid performs in his

or her day-to-day activities, whether

they be at home, at school or more par-

ticularly when they are on an adventure.

Charm

Being able to smile sweetly and get

away with anything. That is charm.

Younger kids tend to be more charming.

Age

For the most part, it is the age of the kid

that you create that decides what the ini-

tial attribute levels are. The higher the

number, the better able your kid is.

To determine your kid’s age, you need

to either choose an age between 10 to

15, or roll a dice (d6) and add 9 to the

result. Write this age on your character

sheet.

The attributes are: -

Tough

This is a measure of the kid's strength,

resilience, build and all round physical

ability. It is useful in sports, outdoor ac-

tivities and particularly useful in fights.

It tends to be higher as kids grow older.

Age

Tough Deft

Clever Charm

Deft

11-12

13-14

Speed, agility, athleticism and co-

ordination are all measured by this at-

tribute. Useful for many outdoor and

sporting pursuits. Deft reduces as kids

grow older.

Grown

-up

Initial attribute levels are determined by

starting age. Look up your kid’s age on

the following table and write the num-

bers for each attribute on your character

sheet. Then add 1 point to any attribute

you like. Write down the final attribute

levels on your character sheet.

Clever

A bright kid is an intelligent and quick

witted kid who does well at school work

and is good at remembering things and

working things out. As kids get older,

Kid type

They will live in a suburban semi de-

tached house with ample room at the

end of the garden for a tree house or

den. Father will have a Rover car or

maybe a Wolsey or Morris which he

uses for work and at weekends to take

the family on outings or drop the kids

off at the train station, when they go off

to see auntie Mable.

Good kids will go on to become bank

managers, solicitors, doctors, account-

ants or politicians. Girls will of course

get married and become housewives.

After attributes have been decided, you

then need to determine the things that

your kid knows or is good at. This de-

pends on the type of kid, which can be a

Swot, a Truant (Tomboy) or a Good

(‘normal’) kid. You get to choose.

Good (‘Normal’)

Good kids - these make up the vast ma-

jority of kids in Idyllic England. They

have a father who works in the bank or

in insurance a mother who is a house-

wife (as all mothers in Idyllic England

should be - no such thing as the

women’s movement here) probably an

older brother or sister and a family pet.

Swots (Bookworms)

Swots are from backgrounds similar to

those of good kids but could be, for ex-

ample, an only child and therefore

molly-coddled by mummy & daddy.

They are not good at sporty things (too

rough) but at their lessons they excel.

Swots prefer to spend leisure time in the

library or in their rooms with their noses

stuck in their books.

There will rarely be more than one Swot

in any gang.

Swots will go on to become Professors,

scientists, inventors and train spotters.

Truants (Tomboys)

A Good Kid

These kids are the naughtier kids of

Idyllic England. They tend to be the op-

posite of Swots, that is good at sports

but poor at their studies. They may even

use strong words or phrases like 'damn

it' and 'blast' or even on occasion

'bloody hell!' (as long as no grown-ups

are nearby).

Truants are fond of games and pranks

that lead other kids astray, such as

cherry knocking and apple scrumping

but because they are better at these

things, they do not usually get caught.

By present day standards Truants are

not bad kids by any means and they do

not get into trouble with the police -

they are simply naughty by Idyllic Eng-

land standards.

There will rarely be more than one Tru-

ant in a gang.

Truants will go onto become football-

ers, racing drivers, journalists and

game designers. Girl truants may be

called Tomboys.

A Truant

What is my kid good at?

These are called skills, abilities, feats or

traits in other rpg’s. They are learned or

taught skills and knowledge. All player

character kids in Idyllic England are ad-

venturous and resourceful. They see

things that grown-ups and most other

kids do not see. Accordingly all your kid

is automatically good at two things -

Hide and Snoop. These are already writ-

ten onto the character sheet and you

have a level of 2 dice in each. You can

spend points to improve them from your

points allocation detailed below.

The other things a kid is good at depend

upon the type of kid she is. You have 8

points to split amongst them. Simply as-

sign some of your 8 points to each thing.

A Swot

If you want to choose things that are not

a part of your kid type, you need to as-

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