Like Robin, I haven't played FATE either. I do prefer numbers to words for the terrible/poor/mediocre/good etc. scale as well, but I know people for whom using the words rather than numbers is a big plus. My monthly sword&sorcery-type game w/ Dr. Nik uses a blend of FUDGE and SHERPA, and now I think some material from a Marvel Comics game as well. So, I'm afraid I don't really know which aspects are FUDGE and which are from the other systems. I do think it works quite nicely! At a con game I found combat to be a bit too drawn out--but it was used in a game where I didn't expect much combat to begin with; it would have been ok in a different genre I think.

Ah, well, thanks Christine. SHERPA, never heard of that one, I'll have to google that.

Thanks for the info! :)

SHERPA's designed so you can play while hiking. Char sheet fits on the back of a business card and you use a digital watch with a stopwatch function as a randomizer for dice rolling. Here's the site:  http://www.panix.com/~sos/rpg/sherpa.html

Thanks for the link I'll check it out. 

Play while hiking? How unusual, sounds interesting! :)

Thanks for visiting my page and thank you also for the compliment.

As to your question, you do the same as you would for any new gamer. Have a chat about their interests and then work them in. If your boys love fighter video games, give them lots of hack and slash. If your daughter loves horses and fairies, work them into the plot. Hook them with their interests, let them learn the mechanics til it's easy, then slowly broaden their horizons.

If your children don't have a love of books and stories from the get-go, starting off with a story won't get you far. Unless you can find a style of story they can get into. My boys never read books on their own til we discovered Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey and Dragonbreath by Ursula Vernon. My daughter will devour any book about dinosaurs or dragons.

So, all said, you need to alter your GM style to suit your players. :)

Good luck!