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Kids on Bikes is a tabletop role-playing game system, and a series of games that use that system. It has won multiple ENNIE Awards.
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Kids on Bikes is a tabletop role-playing game system, and a series of games that use that system. It has won multiple ENNIE Awards.
The first game in the series, Kids on Bikes, was inspired by 1980s coming-of-age movies like The Goonies . Cass Marshall for Polygon recommended it for fans of Stranger Things. [1] Kids on Bikes won the 2019 Gold ENNIE Awards for Best Family Game / Product, and Kids on Bikes: Strange Adventures! Volume Two won the same award in 2020. [2] [3] In 2022, the second edition of Kids on Bikes raised $182,049 on Kickstarter from 2,793 backers. [4]
There are two other games in the series, the space-themed Teens in Space and Kids on Brooms, a game about a school for wizards and witches. [5] [6] On February 10th, 2023, the designers held a charity sale of Kids on Brooms with all profits donated to transgender rights organization Sylvia Rivera Law Project. This was part of a larger boycott movement against Hogwarts Legacy due to the anti-transgender activities of author J. K. Rowling. [7]
Kids on Bikes character creation involves assigning standard roleplaying dice to each of six stats. Players and gamemaster construct the setting together. [5]
The game features a mechanic to allow for a "powered" character like those from E.T. and Stranger Things . While Powered characters are similar to non-player characters, players are able to exhibit some narrative control over the actions these characters take. [5]
The Kids on Bikes system has been featured on multiple seasons of the actual play series Dimension 20 , including Misfits and Magic using Kids on Brooms [8] and Mentopolis using "a 'noir-ified' version of Kids on Bikes". [9]
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