If you're buying for a seasoned gamer, your safest bet is a gift certificate from his or her favorite game store - say, King's Hobby (8810 N.
But for an intelligent, imaginative, and (often) slightly withdrawn boy or girl of 13 and up, adventure gaming can be a fascinating and highly social hobby. Games like these, with their thick rulebooks and odd paraphernalia ( 20-sided dice?) mystify many grownups. Instead, think Dungeons & Dragons, Diplomacy, and Magic: The Gathering.
No one in adventure gaming likes the term 'adventure gaming' much, but this has become the catch-all term for the hobby devoted to paper role-playing games, board games, card and dice games, and more.These are neither computer games nor simple parlor games like Monopoly and Pictionary.
