I’ve always wanted to play Dungeons & Dragons. I already love playing RPGs, plus I’m a huge OOTS fan. The problem is, there aren’t any local gaming groups that I know of.
Well, my brother has a bunch a friends he used to do a forum role-play with, and they decided to form a session-by-Skype group and they invited me to join. And so now I have a snake-person paladin character, and I. am. so. excited.
We had a tutorial session last night, and we learned about the combat system, and readied actions, and why Perception checks aren’t too useful when it comes to magic circles (“It is a magic circle. Monsters come out of it when bird-people sing.”) And I learned the downsides of helpfully helping out party members without asking them (to be fair, I had no way of knowing she was a vampire until I healed her unconscious). And we didn’t learn the intended lesson of “kill summoners quickly or you’re dead” that we were supposed to, because the summoned boss fumbled all its attacks and eventually got punched to death.
Next week we start the campaign proper, and I can’t wait! I’m a real D&D payer now! I am using lots of exclamation marks!
Congratulations! Don’t go pulling any beholder’s eyestalks.
I got back into playing last fall although my initial group fell apart when the DM had real life stuff change his schedule. Just got back in again with a new group – a very new group. The DM and two of the players had never played before and are learning as they go along. Good times.
Don’t forget that, once you hit level eight, you get to learn how to cast real spells. Trying using a Suggestion spell on your dad for some fancy new dice and miniatures!
Yeah, there are all sorts of creatures in the Monster Manual, but in 5th edition, it takes a lot of tweaking and adjusting to turn a monster into a playable race.
My group is meeting this Saturday, and when we had left off, we were pretty much unanimously decided (in-character) to head more-or-less straight for the big boss vampire, even though all of us (out of character) know that we’re probably not ready and that we really ought to prepare more.
Yeah, but it’s basically been done for you. Seems there’s a serpent folk player race called the Yuan-ti Pureblood that has been already been statted out.
And, if you can’t find it officially, there’s plenty of material in the D&D Wiki 5e-Homebrew section.
Break out the trolls fighting Florentine with a two handed and a long sword; and know how to use them. I’m not a nice DM. I’m fair, though. I wish I had the time to start up a group, I loved playing.