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As far as I can tell, Warhammer has been kid-friendly for a long time. I know, I was one of those kids and I had no problem telling fellow Year 6 pupils about the hobby. Not that I’ve ever played, but as I’ve said before I try to familiarise myself with the actual game as that’s what the lore is all about. Maybe I will play one day. To be really blunt, I think the main thing that is kid-unfriendly about Warhammer is not the game itself but the attitudes of the adult fans.It helped that I was playing the following games already:I can also add these franchises: Horrible Histories, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Thunderbirds, Asterix, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, The Simpsons, Arthur, Murderous Maths, Where’s Wally, Theme Hospital, Cutthroats, Red Baron, and ‘Allo ‘Allo. Works on ancient mythology and the Bible also helped.Other works that are officially suitable for children are:Sins of a Solar Empire (battle the enemy to death, where your faction is either a horde of alien conquerors, a bunch of psychic religious fanatics who want to force their beliefs on others, or a capitalist dictatorship who expelled a harmless cult for invalid reasons).Hearts of Iron II (lead your country to victory in the time period occupied by WW2, not that it may be WW2 but some other conflict, and use all kinds of bloodshed, trickery, and deceit).Populous (the first game anyway, where you assume the role of a god and direct your followers into tons of religious violence).Sim City 2000 (this is more of a guess based on the fact that Sim City 3000 is PEGI 7 and the overall SC series has got a consistent rating despite there being new ways to be horrible to your own people and for the nuclear meltdowns that can happen to them now and again).There was also a fascinating show on TV. I’m sure most of you have heard of it. It’s called the news. There were many forms, such as BBC News, ITV News, Channel 4 News, and Newsround. From this, I learned of things such as the September 11 attacks (a prime conversation at school in Year 1), Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad beheading Kenneth Bigley in 2004, and famine & poverty in Africa and worldwide. The school encouraged discussion about this.Because of these, I was already familiar with concepts such as heresy. In fact, from all the games and books, I knew the following concepts:HeresyHoly war (M2TW: The Holy Bible may preach peace…)GenocideLooting (I did a lot of this in games)Massacre (I definitely did a lot of this in games)Slavery (OK, I avoided doing this when I could)Oppression (which in Stronghold and M2TW was often done by me)TheocracyDictatorship (the whole point of the history curriculum)Hive mind (We are the Borg…)BloodshedTortureSadism (there were times when I started slipping into this)IntoleranceBigotry (including the big 3)Sex (Year 6 sex education had an interesting video)PovertyDisasterImperfect protagonistReasonable antagonistAs you can see, everything in the Warhammers I already knew about.Funnily enough, I read this gamebook in school once in Year 4:Please note that this book was written by Steve Jackson in 1986, one of the founders of Games Workshop. He also co-authored The Warlock of Firetop Mountain with Ian Livingstone, another GW founder.I was reading this in front of a local Labour Party activist who, nearly a decade later in 2016 became a volunteer at a local Roman Catholic Church and supports the local university’s Christian Society. Look at this pathetic Dwarf:I could do the following to him:Try to talk to him.Try to help him.Bring my foot down heavily on his neck.What did I choose to do? Number 3. What did the visitor say?Oh, that’s not very nice.No hysterics, no screaming about how this book was encouraging violence in children, no complaints to Wizard Books for marketing this stuff to children. She regarded it as the same as if I said I’d break a pencil. It was minor. No one, parents, teachers, visitors, or any other adult ever had a problem and many even encouraged the reading of the books. In fact, when FF first came out in the 1980s there were more parents pleased to see their children finally reading than worried about evil or violence. Considering how FF books written and illustrated in the 2000s are sometimes even more graphic and explicit than the ones in the 1980s and 1990s, this shows that children nor parents are snowflakes and understand, to use Ian Livingstone and Jonathan Green’s words, that children are not scared by ‘hideous creatures with drooling fangs’. Considering that FF used GW artists like Ian McCaig, Russ Nicholson, and John Blanche (hooray!), you can tell how graphic some images could get.Just to hammer it home, I’m going to keep using this picture just to illustrate that there are plenty on non-Warhammer things marketed for children that are graphic until this stops.I have also spoken to someone I know who works at a 2 primary schools, and so knows the feelings of and guidelines towards children aged 3–11. While 40k certainly has extremely disturbing images, many of the mainstream images and miniatures are not a problem at all. Further, a lot of the children have these:Time to release the buildup of anger I had during the 4 hours between first seeing this question and finally answering it. This is not necessarily directed at the OP. This is the third time this topic has come to my attention. Whatever your opinions of Warhammer Adventures, the release of that has exposed just how distorted a view some 40k fans have of a demographic group I used to be part of. Everyone, on Quora and off Quora who says that any Warhammer before this decade was not suitable for children has just insulted a young child. That young child was me over a decade ago. By insulting me from over a decade ago, you have insulted me by:Getting all patronising and condescending towards my 8–12-year old self.Suggesting I was too soft or not cynical enough.Saying I was too young to understand the attributes of the Chaos Gods when I sat through weeks of RE, History, and PSHE learning those very concepts.Referring to my former age group as ‘little Timmy’ and other derogatory terms to mock the exposure to what would’ve been amongst the least scary images my 8–12 self had ever seen in mainstream fiction.Insulting my parents and also every adult I’ve ever known by suggesting that they are some pathetic Mary Whitehouse-types who get worked up by something they know the children see on the news and learn in school all the time.Insulting the parents of every pupil in my school who let their child or children watch The Lord of the Rings or Doctor Who.It’s very clear what the problem is. Adults. Adult 40k fans. Warhammer has been child-friendly for years, but the fanbase not so much. They’re the ones who talk down to children.From the children’s book House of Hell.