This was GREAT! Always excited to see you put out a new video. You were one of the reasons I picked up Ironsworn and I love it. I am actually running a bi-weekly game of it over lunch over Roll20 for a group of co-workers who wanted to play an RPG at work.
True, thought sometimes some meta-gaming is useful to keep the story going and avoid the "we can't do anything fun because it's not what my character would do" moments. I do love the tension though between doing something that I personally would never do, but my character absolutely will.
I started GMing because I'm the one who bought the box and that was when RUclips didn't exist. I got the rules wrong, I was a bad GM and we had a blast. People forget this hobby existed long before there was a way to compare yourself to others online. It's easier than it looks and it's a ton of fun.
My first RPG was a half remembered amalgamation of rules from watching older kids play first edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. I had just moved to a new state and my new neighbors were camping out in the pop-up trailer they were airing out and invited me to join them. We got bored during the night and it was hard to sleep because it was hot and muggy in Georgia in the Summer. We scrounged around and found two six sided dice in a drawer, a couple of pencils, and some graph paper. I asked the brothers that I was staying with if they had ever heard of Dungeons and Dragons and after I explained what I kind of remembered about it. I had them create characters while I drew up a dungeon to run them through. We stayed up all night playing and it was a blast. They were so excited that they couldn't stop telling their parents about it. Then their parents asked my parents about it and I had to explain it to them and that I had just made up the rules from what I remembered. My dad asked some of the soldiers in his platoon about it and they said that the local post exchange had a copy of something called Red Box Basic Dungeons and Dragons that he picked up for my birthday. After that, we were on our way and I've been GMing and playing role playing games off and on (with some gaps longer than other) for close to forty years now.
Glasscannon is really cool (currently hearing their Traveller series) but i always reference the drakkenheim campaign as a good example of what is achievable in your private game :)
Genuinely I'm begging new players to *not* start with d&d5e or d&d in general. You will get trapped with arguably the most incurious part of the ttrpg scene, the kinds of people that refuse to ever even think about playing more games. Imagine getting into videogames and falling into a crowd that only plays call of duty and refuses that games can or should do anything else.
Yeah I get what you're saying. I think that in some cases though, it's either D&D or nothing for many people. A lot of people will start playing because they have a buddy who plays and takes them in, rather them seeking it out. If you are interested in TTRPGs and you are seeking out a game, then yes I agree - don't start with D&D, try something else first, and at the very least it will give you the perspective of D&D as just another system, not the ONLY system.
This was GREAT! Always excited to see you put out a new video. You were one of the reasons I picked up Ironsworn and I love it. I am actually running a bi-weekly game of it over lunch over Roll20 for a group of co-workers who wanted to play an RPG at work.
Running a game over lunch to co-workers is one of the coolest things I've ever heard.
Thinking about what your Character would do and not what YOU would do or say is probably one of the hardest, most fun things in these games.
True, thought sometimes some meta-gaming is useful to keep the story going and avoid the "we can't do anything fun because it's not what my character would do" moments. I do love the tension though between doing something that I personally would never do, but my character absolutely will.
just because i like you content ! first comment even before i watched the video :)
Great introduction!
Glad you liked it!
I started GMing because I'm the one who bought the box and that was when RUclips didn't exist. I got the rules wrong, I was a bad GM and we had a blast. People forget this hobby existed long before there was a way to compare yourself to others online. It's easier than it looks and it's a ton of fun.
My first RPG was a half remembered amalgamation of rules from watching older kids play first edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. I had just moved to a new state and my new neighbors were camping out in the pop-up trailer they were airing out and invited me to join them. We got bored during the night and it was hard to sleep because it was hot and muggy in Georgia in the Summer. We scrounged around and found two six sided dice in a drawer, a couple of pencils, and some graph paper.
I asked the brothers that I was staying with if they had ever heard of Dungeons and Dragons and after I explained what I kind of remembered about it. I had them create characters while I drew up a dungeon to run them through. We stayed up all night playing and it was a blast. They were so excited that they couldn't stop telling their parents about it. Then their parents asked my parents about it and I had to explain it to them and that I had just made up the rules from what I remembered. My dad asked some of the soldiers in his platoon about it and they said that the local post exchange had a copy of something called Red Box Basic Dungeons and Dragons that he picked up for my birthday. After that, we were on our way and I've been GMing and playing role playing games off and on (with some gaps longer than other) for close to forty years now.
Glasscannon is really cool (currently hearing their Traveller series) but i always reference the drakkenheim campaign as a good example of what is achievable in your private game :)
April Fool's risky click.
lol didn’t even think about that
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Genuinely I'm begging new players to *not* start with d&d5e or d&d in general. You will get trapped with arguably the most incurious part of the ttrpg scene, the kinds of people that refuse to ever even think about playing more games.
Imagine getting into videogames and falling into a crowd that only plays call of duty and refuses that games can or should do anything else.
Yeah I get what you're saying. I think that in some cases though, it's either D&D or nothing for many people. A lot of people will start playing because they have a buddy who plays and takes them in, rather them seeking it out. If you are interested in TTRPGs and you are seeking out a game, then yes I agree - don't start with D&D, try something else first, and at the very least it will give you the perspective of D&D as just another system, not the ONLY system.