Hey Guys !! My friends and I want to play D&D but don't know anything about it. Can someone tell us how we can start to learn and play ?
>>97846519Read the rule books and form your own opinion. If you can't, look for free .pdfs online.This board will maliciously mislead you, because it's full of shills.
>>97846534This.
>>97846534137 Pages ?! I guess i'll have to read everything ._. XD Thanks !
>>97846561Yes. It takes an afternoon. You are a big boy. You can do it.
>>97846519Read the PHB and have at least one person read "lost mines of phandelver"Alternatively, purchase a beginner box, or ask for an introductory game at a local game/hobby store
>>97846519The good news is that you don't have to learn anything! 90% of the modern D&D fanbase doesn't know the rules just does theater-kid improv with dice rolls thrown in!
>>97846519You can't. You kind of learn it by playing with already experienced DM since books only give you a bloat of content but not actual example of play, procedures, how-to-s and guidelines.But you need to understand that all TTRPGs in general are just an adult version of toy soldiers + tea party with dolls where one of the players is like host of a TV-show, judging what happens in the collective imagination. Dice rolls come in when host needs to be semi unbiased on the outcome of the player character action. Thats it. With this knowledge you can arm yourself with a book on some other, better TTRPG and give it a try.If you can't wrap your head around it yourself, just watch some live streams and try to emulate vidya idk. Sometimes I think there is really should be a "dragon game" for beginners...And of course you just can play a table-top game with your friends and try to role-play you action like actors in character with interludes and exposition by the host.
>>97846600Retard.
I'd recommend a different system ngl. D&D is not a good one to start with; it asks a lot of the GM and is not the best with explaining mechanics.If you want to get started with TTRPGs, I'd ask what your group did before this. LANCER is an absolutely fantastic way to introduce a 40k group specifically into TTRPGs. Honey Heist would be excellent for an improv group that doesn't know a lot about tabletop games. Swap these around and you get awful starter experiences.Anyway, my guesses for good starter TTRPGs are comparatively simple ones without too much mechanical clutter to sort through. They would be Trophy Gold (dark fantasy dungeon adventuring), Slugbuster (90s teen movie), Crescent Moon (kids going in a magical adventure) and Masks (Young Justice style teen capeshit).
>>97846519There's tons of "how to play D&D" videos on the internet, including a bunch on hasbro's official D&D youtube channel.My personal advice would be "Don't." but since that's probably not what you want to hear, I'll instead say that you shouldn't buy a single fucking book and get all your PDFs for free online. It's a large investment of time and money and it's kinda-okay at best, as far as RPGs go, and if yo don't like it, then you're stuck with 150USD worth of shitty books that you'll force yourself to keep using, instead of cutting your losses and exploring some other systems.You can also use the System Reference Documents (SRD) that are free online and contain practically every rule, class, spell, and feat that exists for D&D >https://www.5esrd.com/
>>97846636Oh my god thank you so much ! I'll check everything !
>>97846519Get D&D 5E 2024 Player's Handbook and play Lost Mine of Phandelver hope that helps!
>>97846652I'll keep that in mind, thank you ^^
>>97846776Thanks for the advice ! I'll check that !
>>97846636>Slugbuster>goodYou're fucking joking.
>>97846534THIS
>>97846576>90% of the modern D&D fanbase doesn't know the rules just does theater-kid improv with dice rolls thrown in!what a wierd way to refer to VtM players
>>97846636>LANCERHigh crunch, VTT mandatory because it's practically unplayable without Comp/Con, turbo autistic community. The rules are solid, once you understand them, but a completely fresh player who has never touched any TTRPG will be overwhelmed and likely learn nothing from trying to play.>Honey HeistSimple and silly, but at least it would be a quick and easy way to get a new group somewhat more acclimated roleplaying. Still not ideal for truly getting into RPGs. Honey Heist and other one-pagers are like board games you pull out when you've got to entertain your boring relatives who haven't ever played anything more complex than yahtzee.Not familiar with Trophy Gold or Crescent Moon.>SlugblasterGoofy as fuck Blades in the Dark conversion that somehow makes BitD worse. Looks appealing, but it's all style, no substance. Lots of rigid scene structuring, and vague mechanics. Sold almost entirely on premise instead of quality of the actual rules, most of which are just "say you do something cool and then roll a d6. If you get a 6 you do something cool.">MasksPbtA games are a little wonky, but I've run them for tables of completely clueless newbies and had minimal problems. Maybe the only good suggestion here for getting people into the hobby and getting them to play more than a single session. Being able to hand a player their playbook and a copy of the basic moves sheet with all the stats and explanations for what stuff does does make it easier to just get into playing the game.
>>97846534>everyone is a lying shill except me, who recommends the most common big brand thing lol
>>97846519Other than what >>97846534 said, consider the following:Are you treating "DnD" as a by-word in tune of "Nintendo" for vidya? If so, consider literally any other game.>>97847049>Guy asks information about specific system>Is given, in the very first post, the most unbiased take imaginable>HURR DURR!Here, grab a (You)I hate DnD like everyone else, but neither OP nor first anon did anything wrong or out of line.
>>97847229There's at least a few good faith replies in the thread, but OP should also know that we've got a few dedicated schizos who will feed him conflicting or malicious information, mostly just to make other people angry and derail the thread into yet another argument about trolls with vendettas against D&D or whatever.
>>97847229>greetings fellow dnd hater! >have you tried the newest dnd? lmao even
>>97847411>Missing the point this badly>Purposefully so
>>97847456nou
>>97846519yeah, commit suicide asap
>>97846830hes right, dummy>>97847342t fishfag
>>97847229>about specific systemtoo outsiders, ALL rpgs are D&D
>>97846519Sure easy,>Go to xitter>look up BroSR>do the opposite everything they saysimple as.
>>97847920hi fishfag!still reeling from the overwhelming brOSR invasion?Keep crying BITCH
>>97847928>BroSR can't even handle entry level bantz without accusing me of being fishfagI rest my case, you guys are extremely retarded.
>>97847962Ill rest my elbow in your nogames eyesocket.
>>97847970>nogamesYour "games" consists of writing fanfiction about muppet anuses and doing "off-table play" during your self imposed campaign hiatuses. Laughably bad D&D.
how do I into games if I have no friends
>>97847992Acquire a copy of Mythic GME and try solo play. Or just into friends first.
>>97847992See if your local game store has an open table you can participate in. Maybe do some figuring out of the having no friends thing a bit too.
>>97847992join the brOSR on discord!>>97847990seek meds and touch dice
>>97848019>touch dice>we play on discord btwShiggy Diggy
>>97848049yep! You know you can make webcam rooms, right?>i have no rebuttal so ill just shitpost!you dont play games.
>>97848056You can make them sure, but you guys don't. You're games are handled through text chat 99% of them time since all your characters are in time jail. You are literally an entire movement dedicated to playing the worst version of D&D possible.
>>97848137how would you know this? get kicked out? jealous seething?You dont play games, I do. I win. Again. total brosr victory
>>97848228>How would you know thisno denial. BroSR games are ass confirmed.
>>97848292>if you ask for evidence of something, youre guilty!Meds, now, retard.>brosr games are ass!you literall dont play D&D at all ever.welcome to BROSR town, bitch!
>>97848315>evidenceyour "play" reports, dummy. You guys brag about how shit your games are.
>>97848768You dont play games at all, period.
>>97848783I certainly don't play games with you.
>>97848899youre a nevergames, fishfag. you cant even produce a fake character sheet.youve never played D&D, BROSR won, cope and seethe
>>97848926You know this thread I'm apparently fishfag, but in the other threads I'm an ACKS shill.Which is it? Do you know? or are you just fantastically ass mad that I called your gay little club terrible?
>>97846576This is true it hurts. This shit is the only game my friends want to play and they don't even have the fucking decency to learn the rules for it. They just expect me to walk them through literally everything.I unironically DM for randos online rather than my IRL because of this shit.
>>97849010ACKS good, BROSR good,2e badfuck off otherwise, fishfag
>>97846519Go read the 1st 3 chapters of the 4e DMG about organizing a session, and the Worlds Without Number GM section that explains how to run a campaign.
>>97849178ACKS good2e, BroSRT badsimple ass, bronigger
>>97846534I'm new to D&D, and any time I ask about D&D in the D&D threads I'm just ignored.
>>97849248WRONG.brosr GOOD, NERD
>>97849347BrOSR is pushed by faggots who don't play shit and haven't even read AD&D.
>>97849391Ive got my AD&D books right here in front me, faggot
>>97849347AD&D really isn't very good. If you want to have an OSR puzzle solving experience it's best to play some of the stuff that's released since then building on the failures of AD&D (which are many). The RAW experience is pretty shit and we just played it because we didn't know any better.
>>97849457thats your shitty opinion after playing at shitty tables.
Honestly I've always felt like 'OSR' is kind of a reductive and useless label (kind of like 'storygames'). Especially because i think a lot of it isn't even that OS. It could be called something else. like 'OSR' could mean something that comes with tons and tons of DnD baggage or it could just mean 'rules light d20 dungeon crawler'
>>97849490>i think a lot of it isn't even that OSyes, OSR got hijacked to include shit like shadowdark. doesnt make it meaningless.(storygames/storyshitting is also a real thing)
>>97846519are you very autistic? 3.5are you a little autistic? 5star with player's handbook and the dungeon master's guide
>>97849391Ive still got my books right here, wanna show me yours after I show you mine?
>>97849407>>97850326>I OWN A BOOKYou could have countered with "I play every week" or "I'm 6 months into an on-going campaign" but you really just showed all your cards, huh?
>>97850351>and haven't even read AD&DWas the claim. And yet I own many AD&D books, of which I've read. I accept your concession.Care to show us yours?
>>97850443Owning books doesn't mean you've read them, let alone that you play them.
>>97850496And yet you have no books, because oyu dont play.I have books, because I do. Sad little nogames doesnt even own a single real D&D book ;(
>>978465195etools is a great legally ambigious ressource for rules. For most people who shoot the shit with beer and pretzels, most rules are made the fuck up on the spot, regardless of wether they have an unambiguous ruling in the phb. Learn Chadacter creation, how to calculate the total for an ability check, attacks rolls, AC and saving throws. Learn your damn class features and plan your turns while others are doing theirs so you don't fucking take 5 minutes per turn and you're already ahead of the curve. The more you read the 5e rules in depth the more pissed you get.
>>97846636Damn, honey heist? Nice mention.
>>97850526>I OWN BOOKSI'm really not surprised that you think you're winning an argument that was never made, because you've already made it clear you can't read. Thank you for being a shining example of the brosr's extreme retardation
>>97850656Yes, I do own books. >an argument that was never madeyour argument was >and haven't even read AD&DYet I own the books in person. What do you think I do with them, bozo?
>>97846519First you have to chop off your testicles. Then put on lots of makeup.
>>97850749Leave them on your shelf, quite obviously. BrOSR fags, like you, love to insist they have some kind of traditional legitimacy granted to them by virtue of citing the old rules, while displaying wildly incorrect ideas about older editions of D&D.
>>97850793nah, I spent money on them to enjoy reading them when not playing :)you on the other hand dont read the books, dont own the books, and dont play D&D, period.>Leave them on your shelfsad projection>citing the old rules, while displaying wildly incorrect ideas about older editions of D&Dshow where Ive done this, schizo.
>>97850793>he doesnt actually own any D&D books!sad, but many such nogames here!
>>97846519Of all the D&D rule books, the Red Box set from 1983 has the best tutorial on how to play D&D. It will give you a good foundation to understand the core mechanics of the other editions, apart from 4e which isn't D&D in anything but name. You didn't say what edition but that's the 5e logo you posted, I don't know, maybe don't play 5e is the best advice.
>>97850824>show where Ive done this, schizo.Easy: You're a BrOSR retard. That's all the evidence anyone would ever need.>>97850834>he thinks owning D&D books means anythingI bet you bought the 2024 edition books. Pathetic.
>>97846561... Maybe it'll teach you about punctuation and capitalization. If it takes you longer than two hours to read it, though, maybe find something more suitable for your development stage. Like hopscotch or connect-four. And never come here ever again.
has anyone ever jumped right into DMing before being a player? I wanna try my hand at DMing, but I haven't played more than maybe 2-3 sessions.
>>97849347RPGPundit won
>>97851452>evidence? uh, youre a peepee poopoo!kill yourself, loser>he doesnt own a single D&D book>I-I bet you bought the 2024 books!see>>97849407>Ive got my AD&D books right here in front me, faggotCare to post your character sheet since you dont actually have any books?
>>97851555always has. brOSR and RPGpundit have linked up.sneed it or keed it?
>>978513124e Red Box is better, but 5e Heroes of the Borderlands box is best.
>>97851312>the best tutorial on how to play D&D>storyfag waifu quest>good tutorial on D&Dlol
>>97847992We could text each other ?! I have some friends but we can learn together?
