Sandra

There’s also cook’s utensil rules in XGE.

@dogsoahC@lemm.ee @dnd@lemmy.world

Cherries!

This is great, makes me happy to hear!

@flumph @dnd

Elves are of a culture that’s long familiar with magic yet respects magic and its ways.

@Shkshkshk @dnd

It’s awesome!

Now that the concept has caught on so widely, I’ve often wished @pluralistic@mamot.fr had gone with a less scatological term. But maybe that is part of the reason it caught on 🤷🏻‍♀️

@technology@lemmy.world

That’s rich when the Google Play store is full of malware while F-Droid is full of gems.

@technology

My own reason for staying DM so long was that I had such a hard time trusting that the other DMs wouldn’t “cheat” (YMMV what “cheating” means as a DM). Finally I found some ways to talk about that in a clearer and less misunderstandy way.

Awesome map, btw! I have the dungeon cards from them.

@Jtmoriartywriter @dnd

You’ve already gotten an overwhelming amount of tips but here are my standard tips.

@Oszilloraptor@feddit.de @dnd@lemmy.world

Not that Dragons of Stormwreck Isle is bad but I like Lost Mine of Phandelver a lot better. You don’t have to play to a particlar ending either, just start playing and explore. 💁🏻‍♀️

It’s one of the best adventures of all time. ♥

@TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee @Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world

Even outside of home if someone is curious I sometimes just say a scene and ask what they’d do or where they’d go 🤷🏻‍♀️

You’re at the edge of a misty, dewey forest at the break of dawn. In front of you is a castle, and there’s the forest behind you all glittering from dewdrops on the cobwebs. The nearest village is six miles away; you could get there in two hours or so. There’s a well outside the castle a couple of hundred feet to the left of the entrance, which is right in front of you. Whaddayado?

It wouldn’t be as blorby as I prefer but it’d be an intro to the main gameplay loop.

Yes, I’m ready for that situation since this is a common daydream 👍🏻 I can drop 'em right into my ongoing campaign, plenty of stuff for them to do and explore there, and I have many ways of making characters that are all compatible up with the big 5e game down the line. From pregens or the Essentials Kit to something in the middle like Dungeonesque and if they’re really non-nerdy and just wanna dip their toes, I have my own searcher. I don’t use it if I think they are serious about getting into full D&D but it’s nice because it only has two stats and those are both derived straight up from level. (So in short, if I think they’re future nerds I’ll use the Essentials Kit and if I think they’re pretty set in their non-nerd ways I’ll use my searcher class, and it’s no big deal if I guess wrong because it’s easy to switch over.)

I run theatre-of-the-mind so we’re ready to go. If they are looking for more of a dice&minis type thing I have that Castle Ravenloft board game that came out in 2010. Easy to learn and plays in an hour and teaches basic attack rolls & hitpoints stuff and is still called “D&D”.

Although I wouldn’t hesitate to refer to Shadowdark, Svärd & Svartkonst, or any other OSR game as “D&D” either. There’s no trademark lawyer in my living room. 💁🏻‍♀️

What are some of your fave campaigns with him?

I believe it is a mistake selecting that particular instance for those communities.

The risk isn’t just that they shut it down, there’s a much worse thing that could happen: pinpoint elision (or even editing) of reporting on the genocide.

Yes, this is great, rogue for sure but the background that @The_Mike_Drop came up with is so awesome that it makes me wanna think to not stick too closely to Folk Hero. After all, backgrounds were meant to be mix-and-match, make-up-your-own etc. But folk hero is def the one to snarf stuff from! Charlatan can also have some cool stuff perhaps!

Are you working from modules or from your own homebrew?

Since you have so many players maybe one of them can help you with these fights 💁🏻‍♀️

Welcome to D&D! Here are my own recommendations, TL;DR: if you can find the original 5e starter set with the green dragon, start there!

We use the house rule where players make all the rolls so when they roll a 1 when defending, that’s like a crit.

I feel all sorts of ways—sometimes when they’re on a roll I can start hoping for some adversity, sometimes when they have a string of bad luck I can root against them, and sometimes when I’m feeling one way I’m playing it up as the other—if you’ve read Knights of the Dinner Table, that’s sorta the vibe—and all of that’s fine.

Because when I was prepping the game, I did that as a super fan of the characters. But now once the game is started I can’t control it. I can’t control how many monsters they meet, or what the stats of those monsters are, because that’s all been set. Nor can I control whether or not those monsters crit. I play them hard and to the best of my ability and I don’t pull punches 🤷🏻‍♀️

Generosity. Unyielding unflinching generosity. Giving the other NPCs and PCs the attention they need.

You can also look for ideas in books like Hillfolk (has ideas on how a “dramatic pole” can help, i.e. being torn between two conflicting values like home life vs work) or Play Unsafe (such as playing with status, being a noble or a servant). Play Unsafe also has the wonderful tip to not be afraid to be boring or obvious when improvising, to say the first thing that comes to mind as opposed to trying to force a creative or unique idea, because what you think is gonna be boring may well be super interesting to the other players (and when it’s not, it’s at least something basic and fundamental they can easily build on).

You can also collaborate with another player for a type of relationship with their character like being their body guard, religious follower, sibling, servant, spouse, teacher, or student. (Only if they’re into it, of course!) Some storytellers over the years have used extremely shallow and two-dimensional characters to great effect over the years simply by having a cast of characters collide with each other—people meeting other people is great story fuel.

Create Food and Water.