RPG Jr is played with colored six-sided dice, where each color has its own ranking. The colors, listed from lowest ranking to highest are:

• white
• yellow
• green
• blue
• red
• black

RPG Jr keeps track of things such as Health and Experience with the aid of charts. These charts are much like the merit charts used by kindergarden or early-school teachers. There are so many spaces to a name and certain things earn you a smiley sticker, until your row is full.

The standard setting for RPG Jr is the land of Midwinter, a typical midieval fantasy. Fiefdoms, castles, peasents, knights and so on, with hints of foreign non-european influences such as oriental.

RPG Jr is home to two basic character types: The Fighter and the Wizard. Each has its own sub-types. The subtypes differ from each other only in appearance.

Fighters

Knight	Ninja	Soldier	Dwarf

Wizards

Mage	Elf

Characters and NPCs (non-player characters) are clearly defined into one of two groups: The Good Guys, and the Bad Guys. Just looking at a person is enough to tell which group he belongs to. There are no disguises, its a simple world.

Characters always begin at white level, and move up through the rankings until they reach black, which is the highest level. A character's dress is always the color of his level.

Each character has a certain amount of Health slots, and each attack takes off a certain amount of these. When the slots are all filled up, a character has lost. Good Guys always go first, and the attacks alternate from there on.

Health

The typical non-hero NPC has 5 Health slots. Fighters have 10 slots and Wizards 8.

Weapons

Even though its just pretend, RPG Jr characters do not use real weapons, but wooden replicas. That way even our imaginary characters dont "really" get hurt.

Attacks

Fighters may use any weapon such as swords or axes. In a Fighter's hands any weapon does 1D damage. Wizards on the other hand, though they have the option of attacking with their staff for 1 slot of damage, can cast spells to attack. A wizard shoots a large colored ball of light from his hands for 1D damage.

Damage

For every die of damage an attack gets, a die is rolled. The result determines how many slots are filled up on the Health chart.

• White - miss, no damage
• Yellow - 1 slot
• Green - 2 slots
• Blue - 3 slots
• Red - 4 slots
• Black - 5 slots

Losing

There is no death in RPG Jr. A character who is defeated in combat falls down and disappears. When he wakes up he is in a safe place, problaby his home or the last inn he stayed in; always where there is someone to "nurse him back to health" until he wakes up. This goes for Good Guys only. Bad Guys usually wake up behind bars. Depending on the circumstances, the Gamemaster may make defeated characters wake up elsewhere.

Levels

To beat an opponent of the same level, one win is enough. But for every level above white, a character gets up again if all his Health slots are filled up. Treat this kind of like an extra life. A Yellow level character who is defeated once gets up again and starts over with full Health.

The Gamemaster keeps a chart with the names of each character. Each name has 10 slots to it. Every defeated bad-guy gets one sticker. When the slots are full the character goes up one color and the player starts over on an empty row. There are 10 slots per level.

We urge RPG Jr Gamemasters to play responsibly. Role-playing is a lot of fun, and often an excellent learning tool in many vital areas. Remember that you're running an RPG session for young easily-influenced minds. Just as role-playing has shaped many an adult mind, a lot of role-playing at this stage in a child's life will have its effects. Make sure your adventures don't include anything your kid may not be able to handle yet. The first and most important rule of playing RPG Jr is: Always Remember You're Playing with Children!!