How to Start Playing Tabletop RPGs
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- Throw the Dice is a series exploring tabletop RPGs offering up GM tips, tricks and advice on various tabletop roleplaying game related topics. Each week this show will look at individual aspects of the tabletop RPG hobby and will break them down into understandable and easy to follow video guides, tutorials and discussions.
In this video ways to gather a party, choose a system, find friends to play with, set up online or physical play and finally get started with a tabletop RPG game will be covered.
This is aimed at new players/GMs who are entering the hobby and offers up some options to help get you started!
Music Credits:
Cool Vibes Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Too Cool Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Streams Mentioned:
Critical Role - / @criticalrole
Maze Arcana - / @mazearcana
Dragons and Things - / datdragonshow
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Virtual Tabletops Mentioned:
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Roll20 - roll20.net/
Systems Discussed:
Savage Worlds
Unhallowed Metropolis
Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition
Dungeons and Dragons 4th edition
Pathfinder
Call of Cthulhu
World of Darkness - Vampire, Werewolf, Hunter
Starfinder
Star Wars RPG
Cover art for the RPGs featured in this video are owned by their respective owners.
The Plague Knight fan art used within this video was not produced by myself, however, I could not locate the artist for credit. If you know of the artist or of them please let me know so I can reach out to them and give the appropriate credit!
Once again, thank you for watching! 
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This just appeared on my RUclips feed. I didn’t realize how badly I needed a video like this. Many, many thanks!
Glad to hear that! More content coming soon. Going to be exploring different aspects each week!
Hope it helps even in a small way :)
I started seeing that RPG games got more recognized again, I wanted to try it out so here I am investigating how to play with my 3 best friends!
Me and my friends will play next week for the first time. I'm so excited! I'm pretty lucky that my friends like Fantasy and the Idea of starting RPGs ^^ I wish we could have a larger Party, right now we're just 3 Girls..
Hey 3 is a good party size! More than enough to have a blast of a time. Hope the game goes well for all of you!
Putting your dice in a cup for rolling helps keep them from flying. I started bringing a large plastic bow because someone always rolls wildly.
Oh yeah! When i was running more physical games i had one player whos dice would consistently roll off the table. Honestly why I learned to like dice towers for a while there. Luckily picked up the one for free RPG day years back and it was pretty good for a while! Love the cup/bowl idea!
@@HollowTale A hat works too, but is large. A 4 cup bowl so far is best for size and practicality. Big enough to hold plenty of dice and large enough to cover with your hand. Oh! Plastic! Not Glass!
And Pathfinder is very rich in Lore. Golarion has a very relatable world to easily make a character backstory with. I'm glad you mentioned it. I think bringing Pathfinder forward is important. A lot or people over look it.
I do love pathfinders lore and the system overall! I have been making use of a homebrew world I've been developing for 5 years right now for most of my fantasy themed campaigns, but i used to make use of quite a bit of Golarion's lore. On top of that i agree its really flexible and easy to learn!
I will definitely be doing more on Pathfinder in the future! Currently debating if to do some more stuff on the playtest material!
Omg this is extremely useful as I've been thinking of getting int d&d or something similar for awhile
Glad it helped! If there are any specific things you want to know more about let me know here in the comments and I may be able to do a video on it! Expect more general content like this and more specific guides to come!
@@HollowTale im not sure how general it is but the idea of mixed classes is definitely an interesting one atleast for me. How does a gm deal with the kind of mess that could be inflicted by a paladin-necromancer for eg
I could certainly look into doing a video on multi-classing sometime! I was debating doing a series thats more of a practical look at systems individually so i could dive into that within one on 5e! For that specific mix though if you ever do play dungeons and dragons 5th edition, check out the "Oathbreaker Paladin" they are pretty much that!
@@HollowTale thank you for all the help. You've got my sub and i hope the channel keeps growing. :)
Even as someone who has been playing for a few years, this was awesome for learning about a few new systems :)
Damn, that was an awesome introduction for beginners~!!
I'm glad I've found your awesome video, so I can send to new player for them to see a short, but very well build introduction to our hobby~!!
Important thing to know: Do not look to critical role to see how RPGs are actually played. Its an improv theater act played over an rpg system. It's kinda like porn. They are doing the same things mechanically but the emotions are overblown.
For sure, I was planning on doing a video around expectations some day discussing different expectations for different groups.
The way I usually see it and tell people about it is that it's like genres of music. Everyone had their own tastes.
I love running heavy roleplay narrative games but some folks love a good dungeon crawl and there's nothing wrong with either or a mix of both.
@@HollowTale You ever get into the OSR scene? Its a pretty innovative genre despite being based on the 1970s/1980s Dungeons and Dragons rules.
@@artemiswyrm4249 I haven't explored it too much but I did love 3.5 and pathfinder so would love to look back further and get into some OSR content at some point!
@@HollowTale Your not a real gamer unless you play B/X D&D! Or 1e AD&D.
@@artemiswyrm4249 I have been meaning to check out AD&D just need to find the time between other games!
That was awesome, so many tools I didn't even know existed. Subscribed.
Glad you enjoyed it! More to come!
Haha great vid to pickup on this genre! well done please more :)
And your voice is really fun to listen to
Thanks! More coming next Wednesday! Got a few more in the works! Also glad the voice was fun and not super annoying! Hope you enjoy the rest that is to come!
4 years late to the party...
From my experience, because I live in a place where tabletop faming is a rarity the 1st thing I searched for is online community, and 2nd I learned what most people plays in that community, which is D&D. I've been playing for 3 years and now I'm entering my 3rd step, playing other system... solo. I found out that I cant fit my time to most people's schedule, so solo run is pretty interesting for me to try. I've dived into Ironsworn and I really enjoyed it.
Super helpful thank you trying to become a GM
Best of luck!!!
Hollow Tale thank you 😊
Was directed to here from Spacedock, and this is great
Glad to hear you enjoyed it!
Hey! The channel space dock shouted you out! Your content seems great and you just earned a new subscriber!
Hey! Thank you! Glad to have you! Hopefully, the content will only get better from here! Really appreciate the shoutout! Great channel!
You should do a Stars Without Number video, cause it is fairly easy to run and play!
I have heard things on this system before actually! Cant say I have tried it but I am always on the look out for more systems especially for Sci-fi! I have mainly ran and played in horror, fantasy, superhero and multi-genre systems and games. But aside from Starfinder haven't had the chance to do much sci-fi yet!
Thanks for the suggestion! I will make sure to give it a go sometime and see about making a video on it!
In my opinion the Chaosium and Cyberpunk mechanics work, but at least the total RQ mechanics are very complex.
BECMI D&D is still awesome ... now if I could find some players interested in it, or even Basic Fantasy. I suppose I could take-up 5e, if I could find a group, but wouldn't want to run it. (If I was rich I'd consider Torg: Eternity as an option.)
Roll20? It is online but you can play with other players or go to game store so play there(i mean like tabletop store)
Star finder is really good because it feels very much like a d&d game. There’s a lot of different machanics becuse lazer guns but it’s still a grate game. There’s a massive amount of customization and interesting races to play
Yeah, i have to say i haven't played or ran much of it. But what i have done i found really easy to transition to from say pathfinder. I loved the openness of it as it can be used for some great games in sci-fi not only for the base setting but others too!
Hollow Tale there’s a lot of room to make your own stuff along with a bunch of premade stuff you can do I would totally recommend it. There’s something about be a talking rat with laser guns that lets your inner scaven out
Oh for sure! I loved the races in the game. Ran the Skittermander one shot and that was a blast too!
What category do you use in ROLE GENERATOR?
is this a guide or asmr?
Is there a tabletop rpg with psionics as a playable option
What about finding groups for more obscure rpgs like fudge? It's a system i really love but it's niche enough that there's nowhere i can think of to go for players.
Theres a join game section on roll20/various subreddits that may have what you are looking for! With more obscure games it is a tougher one, but back when I made this there were various ways to search through those!
Also curious about Fudge now!
And just as I was watching more. I've been searching for a local group for around 3 years with no luck. Looking to host rise of the runelords in Pathfinder.
If you cant find local games i do definitely suggest checking online boards such as the LFG board on reddit and the roll20 forums for games. Theres always so many games to play there, but more than that the games usually fill up quite quick for pathfinder for GM's.
I run some one shots every month in a community and the pathfinder ones are always full up!
Plus runelords is just a damn good adventure path. Absolutely loved reading through the collection.
@@HollowTale thanks. Been looking a little while I'm at work. A few 5E threads but I'm really not a fan of 5E. A few long dead LFGs with few responses but it is at least a lead that there are some Pathfinder players hiding away in this middle of nowhere county. Now just to raise them..
would also be cool if I end up being able to be a player as I tend to enjoy writing characters a lot
Hey, I mean different tastes are a thing! Nothing wrong with that! I love both 5e and Pf but for very very different reasons!
Also seems like it maybe try the raise dead or scry players spells!
I've been studying on how to jump into RPGs and playing RPGs for years. Some classic Western styled Rpgs others Jrpgs but they essentially all run the same once people accept a system. It's surprising how difficult it can be to get assimilated into more preferred RPG types and how difficult it can be for people who have a general knowledge or skill to do so but just not the decades of expansive knowledge of the stuff~ sadly when it comes to D&D and i know D&D is an EXPANSIVE community they are by far my hardest to do anything with and yet the one I've tried and still am trying~ even collecting guidebooks in physical copies- which I've not done for any other (cough well tech Gloomhaven which I own the tabletop for). I think so far Warhammer40k and fantasy have been the most kind and generous~ for them it's just a pastime where some even paint pieces n such and gladly welcome newcomers, Sure there are some friendly D&D players similar but man the lore n such is so expansive as is the community... so hard to find the right peeps ;(
I have rell dnd and play roll 20 whan i cant find players
What about gurps
all of this seems really complicated... Is it possible to play online with strangers on places other than roll20? I never knew all of this would have thousands of pages of rules, and different rule sets n' all.
Now that I think of it, i don't know much about tabletop at all. Honestly i'm more confused than when I started. I don't even know how long a game lasts.
1. Yes, roll20 isn't the only place, i myself joined a discord community THROUGH roll20 but they don't necessarily use r20
2. The average session can go ranges around an hour or so, average campaigns can go upto weeks and months
@@Azure9577 huh well i don't remember making this comment lol. I don't think i'm actually interested anymore because it doesn't sound like it's worth the effort
@@mightbetoad6786 its absolutely worth it, the feeling is amazing
Apocalypse World? Apocalypse World. ;-P
I stopped at D&D 5e is "simple to pick up and play". D&D is definitely on the complex side of TTRPGs and not beginner friendly. The character creation alone takes hours for a new player even with help from someone experienced. I was looking for systems I could get actual beginners into...
You are just stupid i guess, watch the crap guide to dnd series
I am also a beginner who just started playing and i am not having any oroblems
So bizarre, you ignored GURPS...
I disagrie with you. First of all the rules must be provided free of charge, so you can get full experience and then choose wether you like it or not, before spending your money.
Plenty of games have SRDs! Or free resources now so that's totally valid!
@@HollowTale for games you mentioned its only true for pathfinder and partialy for dnd. Other variants from your video dont have open SRD's.
My number one tip for new rpg players:
Do NOT start with D&D 5e like everyone tells you to. Just don’t. No matter what people parrot at you, it is NOT a beginner friendly game. Sure it’s simpler compared to other dnd editions except the Basic Set. But it’s flat out not for beginners. The abilities are so numerous and complicated that you probably won’t remember anything until five sessions in. The Magic system is outdated and convoluted. There are way to many spells to pick from that all are even more complicated than the basic abilities. And don’t even get me started on the attribute scores/modifiers. New players are NOT going to understand how the scores and modifiers work.
It’s an ok system and nothing wrong with liking it. But it’s not for beginners. Period. The end. If I had started with 5e, I would have hated the hobby as a whole.
I started with 5e and i am loving it
I also don't have any problems understanding anything