Advice for new players

Start with D&D. You already know how to play D&D. It's LotR. It's WoW. It's babby's first RPG.

Just don't stick with D&D. When you start houseruling to tweak D&D, it's time to drop the whole system. There are other worlds than these. At least try out FATE and Savage Worlds.

And don't listen to faggots on the internet. If we knew what were talking about, we'd be playing a game right now instead of trolling Veeky Forums.

don't worry about being good
worry about being fun

get out of the hobby

Dude I started with GURPS 3e when I was 15 with no one but me and the pile of torrented books. It's not that hard.

Yeah, and look where you ended up.

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I'm on Veeky Forums to ask questions about GURPS my dude. I play tabletop regularly

1. Don't be weird.
2. Other people will be weird, don't let a bad experience turn you off the hobby.
3. Good groups do exist, they're rare though. Treasure them because nothing good lasts forever.
4. No game is better than a bad game.
5. Don't let yourself get stuck into one system. Encourage your group to try new settings and systems.
6. The first time you do char gen in a new system do it by hand. It helps to learn the system a lot. Once you understand it you can use generators and tools.
7. Consider trying out one-shot games first. They're easier to organize and don't have the level of commitment a full campaign does.
8. Have fun.

Not I guess I may have just had a bad experience with GURPS, the DM was bad at explaining things though.

Personally I llike FATE, it's very easy to get into, but really relies on a solid/flexible GM.

This is all great advice too.

>Don't be weird
Critical

>Other people will be weird
Best social advice ever given for this hobby

>NO GAME IS BETTER THAN A BAD GAME
This x1,000,000. Don't hate your hobby.

>Don't let yourself get stuck into one system
This is also fantastic. This is why people bitch and complain about 3.5- getting their group to play anything fucking different is often as hard as pulling teeth.
My progression went: 3.5 >> D20 modern (forgive me, for I have sinned) >> Call of Cthulhu >> Firefly Cortex >> Palladium Rifts >> D6 Star Wars >> FFG Star Wars >> Savage Worlds >> 5e

Try everything you can.

Trust the GM. He is not your enemy. He wants to make a fun encounter/event/campaign. It the story takes an odd turn or things dont go as you think they should, roll with it.

What are these comics?

GURPS is deceptively easy to play. If you can get over the hump of character creation, the basic system is intuitive and easy to follow. GURPS does a great job of supplying the GM with guidelines to make quick rulings, and with actual rules to help establish tone and consistency. The main strength to GURPS is that it's extremely easy to monkey around with different rules to see what works. A competent GM can run a GURPS game that doesn't feel like it's trying to be a simulation, while a shitty one has a tendency to become too focused on the rules.

I suggest reading through the Basic Set yourself, honestly, and picking up books that you think would be interesting to look through. Even if you don't play GURPS, GURPS books have a wealth of knowledge that can be used for any other system.

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So how is Rifts?

>And don't listen to faggots on the internet. If we knew what were talking about, we'd be playing a game right now instead of trolling Veeky Forums.
This is the only good advice in this entire thread.

OP, just go do it and figure it out as you go. Don't listen to anything else we pathetic fucks have to say. If we knew half the shit we say we do, we'd be out there doing shit instead of fucking off on Veeky Forums.

My group played a heavily modified variant, borrowing from several RIFTs books while fully ignoring about 50% of the text, because the writer ranges from "autistically detail-oriented" to "clearly this was written as a joke but it isn't landing".

It was actually a lot of fun. The problem is, Rifts is written in a VERY dense format, filled with charts that you may use only once in the entire game, if at all, and can be pretty punishing. But a lot the mechanics are actually pretty good. The action economy is pretty nice, relying on action points instead of "one maneuver, one attack per round". You can spend it on things like Dodging or Full auto fire, or just extra movement. But the limited action points make you really think about how you want to spend a round; do you take "Burst" for the sweet x3 damage bonus, or do you want to save action points to Dodge because of the Sniper up on the tower?

It has a LOT of potential, and if it was written by almost anyone else it would be a legitimately awesome system. But the writer needs a seriously stronger editor, but I suppose that's what happens when it's basically one guy in his garage.

Avoid D&D. That includes Pathfinder. And all other published d20 System products.

Try to with the flow. Dont be an asshole to people. If people are shitty or creepy it's okay to leave or not come back. Remember that no one player or group represents the hobby. You might have to shop around to find what you like.

>the basic system is intuitive and easy to follow.
As long asvyour GM isn't a pedantic rules lawyer who obsessively references the books for their 400 million optional charts and mechanics.

Like how every GURPS player ever does.

Saying GURPS is simple if you ignore most of the rules is like saying heavy metal music is melodic if you play it without distortion. Technically true, ultimately meaningless.

>Pathfinder

That's unfortunate. I feel like Swords & Wizardry delivers a more focused, leaner classic D&D experience.

>Like how every GURPS player ever does.
t. man who does not play GURPS

>Discuss what everyone wants from a game before playing

>Try different systems and settings. Don't get stuck to the first one you happen to play.

>Try playing and GMing with different people.

>When you run into disagreements with your group, talk about them like an adult.

>Have fun.