#d&d beginner

[vampiresmp3]

I really need to find a group to play d&d with with @lamprosy I have so many character ideas and such want to play it's unreal

[athenaderiva]

I really wanna start playing D&D so I've made an elven druid. Never played before, bullshitted my way through her backstory. anyone up for helping a beginner? I have discord 😅

[kugisakiis]

Hmm I've been dealing with a lot of loneliness during this pandemic and I'm wanting to break out of that and get into d&d. I've been wanting to do it for a while but I'm a total newbie and have no idea what I'm doing so idk how to find groups that are beginner friendly. All I know is I need a set of dice and a character sheet but outside of that I'm blank.

[headlessdoe]

I’m playing D&D for the first time today, any advice?

[moved202347]

agh I really want to get into D&D but there's nothing for beginners to get started — nor is there anything for anyone confused?? It just seems very complicated. I think my friends would enjoy it but we'd have to understand how to play 😂

[boundbycronus]

So...I kinda want to learn how to play D&D, or some other tabletop RPG

I had been very loosely following Heroes and Halfwits on Achievement Hunter, and a coworker did a neat short presentation on how games like D&D can be a great way to learn some team building, help with social interaction, and helps exercise the mind, and did a work sign up for anybody interested in learning more about the game and possibly joining a new campaign. It certainly piqued my interest, and I gave Heroes and Halfwits another look and found that...yeah that does seem like a lot of fun.

I figured at the very least, I should try to build a character, and...its way harder than I thought. It has been taking literal days and I think I'm more confused than when I started. Help?

[performing-personhood]

The Thrift Store Gods have blessed me and the spouse with the entire 2014 5e starter pack - the players manual, dungeon master's guide, monster manual, and two training-wheels campaigns - for thirty american dollars. (Each book alone retails for $50 on D&DBeyond right now, even though it's all outdated we still got our money's worth.)

So we took the hint. The two of us spent a few days learning how to do it and, after at least a year of watching D20 and listening to various live-play podcasts, we finally played a few hours for ourselves.

Here's what I learned:

I need to take way better notes

I somehow underestimated the level of encyclopedic knowledge required for this and I thought I was being quite generous in my previous estimations

I am a "writes a novel's worth of backstory that will never be used and is barely even relevant" person and I should not have been surprised by this

Three hours of playing D&D has taught me more about why it is actually truly Important™️ to have friends than 40 years of being an alive conscious and aware human person ever has.

I already knew this, but math is hard.