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I sent an ask a while back about how to start playing dnd, I just wanted to give you an update. I just got a group of my friends to play! We just started making our character sheets and are going to start this weekend. Thanks for the advice and the confidence to start!
Have fun!!
Jumping on the dnd questions. I've always really wanted to play but have no idea how to get started. I don't know anybody who plays or any groups nearby
Yo I am gonna share a buck wild fact with you: most people are willing to play tabletop games if you explain what they actually are.
My cool friends with slick sales careers who go to bars a lot like Cool People, who had never even heard of tabletop gaming? Asked me to DM a try-on session for them after we spent half an hour chatting over dinner about the campaign I’m running now. (I haven’t had time yet.) My 60 year old mother, whose only exposure to DnD was the Satanism scare in the 1970s, lamented that she lives all the way out in California so she can’t get me to come DM for her and her friends, after we talked about my current campaign. Tabletop gaming is really fucking fun. If you can get people past the cliched image of a group of heavy mouth breathers slurping down Cheetos in a funny-smelling basement, and talk to them about what tabletop gaming is actually like, it’s like–fuck yeah I wanna be a wizard! At least to try?? It sounds cool!
Here’s a script:
YOU: Hey, guys, I want to try out tabletop gaming, have you ever heard of that?
YOUR FRIENDS: No, what is it?
YOUR FRIENDS, ALTERNATELY: Isn’t that that gross thing that nerds do?
YOU, ALTERNATELY: No, it’s not actually like that.
YOU: So, we’d get together as a group, and like, everyone has a character, their own character. And one person, probably me, doesn’t have a character, they’re the person who says what the world does. (You will probably have to DM your first campaign, if this is your idea. Maybe you will turn out to love it! Probably one of your friends will realize they want to be doing the thing that you’re doing if you don’t. Look around at your friends, one of them is a DM and just doesn’t know it yet.) Like, I’d be the one who says “The prince summons all of your characters to his court because he wants you to assassinate somebody,” and then you guys, the players, would get to react to that the way your characters would react. Or I’d be like, “And then the train goes off the rails, what do you do?” and you guys would be like, “Oh, my character can fly, so I’m going to go out the window,” or whatever.
YOU, CONTINUING: There’s like, some rules and stuff? Just to keep things interesting and unpredictable. But it’s mostly a thing where you get together with your friends and you create a story together. Sometimes people get really into their characters, and what’s happening to them. It’s like, you know…using your imagination, for grown-ups.
YOUR FRIENDS, POTENTIALLY: Okay, kind of weird, but okay, I’d be willing to give it a try.
YOUR FRIENDS, ALTERNATELY: That sounds kind of embarrassing? I don’t know if I could do that.
YOU: Don’t worry about it we’ll have booze, just think of it like a party game, it starts off kind of embarrassing but then you have three drinks and you realize you’re having a lot of fun.
YOUR FRIENDS, HOPEFULLY - AND THIS HAS BEEN MY EXPERIENCE EVERY TIME I HAVE HAD THIS CONVERSATION WITH ANYBODY: What the fuck, that’s a thing?? That sounds so cool!! I want to use my imagination!!
I have heard what the fuck that’s a thing that’s so cool I want to use my imagination from people I would NEVER have expected to be down with DnD. People I thought would be VASTLY TOO COOL for DnD. I think it mostly comes from the fact that I’M genuinely into it, and I make it sound fun, and that kind of energy is infectious. If you bring “I want to tabletop game” to your group of friends like a gangrenous wound you’re embarrassed you’re making them look at, it won’t go great.
I love the Kirk gem! I never knew I needed this until now
Thanks! I was originally just looking to see if there was any gem!Kirk fic that I could read (as far as I can tell, there isn’t. Might have to write some myself because I have a mighty need!), but then I just really wanted to draw some kind of scene with Jim going poof.
Still trying to work out plot details if I do end up writing fic for it–like how it all integrates into the movie plotlines…
lilipad90 said: Helen! That’s super cute!
lili!!! ily!!!
lilipad90 replied to your post:Dear Helen: have u ever been called hecken hella-en
hella-en is the only nickname i have that glorifies my existence although i personally think helesbian is spectacular
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sorry this is late lili!!!! anyway!
You are:
[] A healer[] A sword fighter[] A sorceror/sorceress[] A fist fighter[x] An archer[] A damsel in distress[] Canon fodder
In our adventures I would:
[] Be the one to rescue you[x] Be the one getting rescued[] Always offer to pay for our drink[] Often leave you behind[] Try to seduce you at every turn
We met:
[] Once upon a dream[x] In our childhood[] On a hot summer’s day/winter’s night[] While we were neck deep in trouble
Do I secretly love you?
[] Yes[x] No[] I refuse to answer this!
If you were in trouble:
[x] I would do my best to help you no matter what happens![] I would help, but only if I could benefit as well.[] I might help. Maybe.[] I’d let you rot. It’d serve you right.[] You? In trouble? I’m the one in trouble! Help me!
When we are alone:
[] It’s just you and me, sharing a meal by the fire.[x] We are in the library, lounging about and studying.[] We have long conversations about everything and nothing at the same time.[] It’s in the bedroom.
Together we shall:
[x] Rule over all![] Grow old and adventure together.[] Part ways, sweetly, yet sadly.[] Create a new kingdom all our own![] Discover new lands![x] Conquer new lands![] Make sweet sweet love.
And finally:
[x] We are friends.[] We are enemies
Chalcedony, it would be right next to your eye, and your power would be a magical wand like sailor moon
NICE thank u lili the next to the eye thing is rly cool??? luv it.....
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