#first time players

[angband-thrall-no-1035]

It truly is constant... Halfway through a session you realise why they haven't rolled above an 11 on a skill check.

[probablyshapeshifterrpgideas]

Some unsolicited advice for first time players

(No matter what you're playing!)

• new games with totally new rule sets and character sheets and dice can be overwhelming. Read over whatever material you can then relax. Youve done enough and if you're a first time player your GM will understand if you fuck up or dont know anything right off the bat, they dont expect perfection.

• Antisocial characters kill a campaign. As a general rule, avoid making them at all costs. (theyre not very fun to play anyway)

• Respect your fellow players and your GM!!! If you all respect eachother and there is mutual trust in the group its going to be so so so much better i promise!

• Its okay to suck. My first player character sucked ass! but thats just a first step. your next few steps will be much smoother, promise.

• Don’t finish your character before you start playing!! This is advice for you later players as well, you will have so so much more fun if you just come up with a few traits and a goal than if you come up with a huge and detailed backstory for your pc! Plus its hard to play a character when you have too much to keep track of. Keep it simple stupid!

• save the chatter for the end. if possible, try to avoid interjecting the story with personal anecdotes or chatter. It brings everyone out of game mode and tends to be rude. (play this one by ear though! if you have a group that does this and the GM encourages it then go ahead, but dont assume this is the case)

• Dress up games are fantastic for character creation, even if they seem silly

• When you are creating your character ask yourself: what do they want? Your character needs a long term goal to be a playable one! try to make this goal fit the theme of the campaign and the other player's characters. Some times its best to come up with this one after session one or session zero. But don’t neglect it!! it is the #1 most important part of creating a pc! (click here for a random goal generator: X  )

• And finally: remember to always thank your GM!!

[mrsvenomoustheviper]

DND Rant

so I am playing with a new group. I am the only one in this group that has played DND before. We are playing over FaceTime because we’re all long distance. Well during our first session. DM goes (I let my friend DM even though they had never played before, mistake on my part) and they told me to roll inquisition. Which isn’t a stat on the page. I start to say something and the DM goes “What you just roll the dice and tell em what you got.” I was so mad for no reason, but when I started to explain angrily that “that’s not how that works.” I was muted and didn’t know that I was muted. They just moved on. So in our group chat the next I sent actual resources on how to play the game.

I don’t know why I felt like I had to post this.

[just-dice-in-your-arms-tonight]

Had the honour to DM for my family again last Saturday. This is a group of four players that never played DnD before.

I deliberately don't tell them too much how they are 'supposed' to play - and let them just pick it up as we go. Fascinating to see how they at first had the tendency to play against each other, as a lot of tabletop games go of course. But then slowly start seeing the benefit of operating as a group.

And I took great pleasure in doing a Matt Mercer-esque cliffhanger by dropping a pause after a big story moment and then go: "and that's where we end for now." 😁

[timetomarvel]

Roleplay in DnD with excited beginners:

The heroes captured an Orc and want to question it.

Orc: *dazed* what.. what happened?! *starts growling*

Wood Elf: Tell us what you know! Are there more Orcs in these mountains?

Orc: *takes a deep breath, gets interruptet before he can say anything*

High Elf: *deep growling voice* you won't get anything out of me!

Wood Elf, Halfling and Orc stare at the High Elf confused as hell.

High Elf: Sorry! I got carried away xD

[ninjacheddarbiscuits]

Oh yeah!

Me and friends played our first session of D&D last Saturday!

We have a surprisingly tanky, charismatic, broody ass Half-Elf Ranger

A incredibly horny Dragonborn Bard (@dacergirl369 ) who insists I roll a D10 every time she comes across a new NPC (I don't mind it spawns good role play)

And a Tiefling Warlock that can't land Eldrich Blast for shit

And me. The D&D that tried her best to bloody make sure they didn't mess up my campaign...

Man, I now know the pain...

(I love them all really it was such good fun)