About every other day at least, I see a thread of a complete newbie asking for advice. I wanted to post an introduction thread and basically have a gateway to filter newbies through, to give them good information that I think should be "standard" of posters here on Veeky Forums.
This is the rough draft of it. It's incredibly long though, maybe about 10 posts worth of information. I want to hear your guys opinion on it before I post it. My eventual goal is to get something that most people can agree on and to turn it into a sticky, possibly with this very picture to foster good relations.
I have a question you didn't address Senpai, where do I find a group?
Samuel Foster
That is a good point. I'll add that in my second draft.
Friends is an obvious first answer. Then I think I'll mention the bulletin board at the FLGS, then maybe using roll20 or gamefinder threads and meetup sites after that. Or are meetup sites not reliable anymore?
Nathan Thompson
This thread is exactly what I need after lurking here for a few months and having minmal experience role-playing
Leo Hill
>pastebin is thinly-veiled 5e shilling
Nope.
Christian Barnes
Sorry! I have to shill a little bit in order to convince people how easy and cheap it is to get in the hobby, and in my personal opinion, I think 5e is great as an introduction. Plus, in a lot of the new players asking for advice thread, most people suggest 5e as well. Almost an overwhelming majority, even from people who claim to dislike it.
Do you have alternative suggestions though?
Logan Gutierrez
>roll20 Well I started there playing 5ed, and my experience was probably way, way different than what should be a normal healthy start to tabletop gaming
Also Senpai, could you suggest more systems than D&D next o start off with? There's got to be more noobie friendly stuff, even if it is slightly less popular
Ian Sanchez
I thought about mentioning Dungeon World, but I know that's a huge hot-topic button on Veeky Forums right now. That's why in the "Where do I go from there?" section, I tried to list off as many games as I thought was reasonable. I went with 5e not just because it was a brand name, but because its easy to get into and currently the most popular, so it's the most likely to get easy formation.
FATE is probably newb friendly as well, but I think that one is particularly polarizing. Savage Worlds is sort of friendly, but I think it builds a lot on prior tabletop experience as opposed to being a fresh start.
I'm open to suggestions though.
Adam Wright
I don't have any suggestions because I am noob. I have only played D&D next on roll20 and with my friends IRL, though I only know the bare minimum to DM a D&D next game. I wanted TRPG for the freedom, and I didn't mind all the reading and shit because I prefer oldschool rpgs with a lot of text and not a lot of graphics.
Ethan Mitchell
A lot of choices on where to go next would be dependent on what kind of genre you want to run.
If you want your characters to be more high powered, consider: >Exalted >D&D 4th Edition >Pathfinder >Rifts
If you want low powered, check out OSR games, such as >Lamentations of the Flame Princess >Dungeon Crawl Classics >Wizards and Warriors >Swords and Sorcerers >Basic/1e D&D
If you want caped super heroes, you can go >Villains and Vigilantes >Mutants and Masterminds >Someone else help me out, I don't super hero that often.
If you like less rules and more narrative: >Fate >Dungeon/Apocolypse World >Dogs in the Vineyard >The Dresdin Files game
If you want more crunch and character customization: >GURPs >Pathfinder
Horror: >Call of Cthulhu >Unknown Armies >Don't rest your head >Monsters and other childish things >Double Cross (kinda)
Space: >Traveler >Rogue Trader >need more help on this one.
