>new player wants to try rpgs
>break out dnd5e
>start creating character
>new player gets bored and doesn't understand
>roll to hit against AC
>roll to do damage
>modifiers
>advantage
>new player wonders why they can't just do a sweet move
>gets frustrated and quite
Tell me why we aren't recommending the far superior PbtA games instead of DnD for new players?
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Why, in this real example of something that really happened, did you choose to use 5E if it's so bad?
>Tell me why we aren't recommending the far superior PbtA games instead of DnD for new players?
Modern editions of D&D are shit, but most PbtA games are also shit. Apocalypse World is the exception to this trend. I would only recommend 5e because of the wealth of players, and in spite of its popularity, I would never, ever recommend Pathfinder. It teaches too many bad habits.
Two reasons:
>Ease of GMing/Support/Group-finding
My main goal in introducing people to tabletops is to keep them interested. If for whatever reason I can't run DnD 5e for them anymore they can still find a different group or run it themselves. PbtA takes a lot more work to learn to run, and it's infinitely harder to find a group you didn't start yourself. In this sense, DnD is a better investment of their time and mine when I'm not sure if I'm going to keep playing with all of them.
The other reason is
>Edgy Shit
It'd be way easier to sell AW to people if it didn't have all the edgy sex language in it. I play TTRPGs to tell stories, not to get off. I've never seen a novel be better for having explicit sex in it. I'd have to cut the book to pieces to avoid showing that shit to prospective players, and I don't feel like playing editor to Vincent Baker.
If we're playing something like Fellowship, The Sprawl or Dungeon-World-with-Fellowship-Combat-and-3rd-party-classes then it's much more viable.
>new player gets bored and doesn't understand
>roll to hit against AC
>roll to do damage
If your new player cannot grasp rolling a dice, basic addition and then comparing two numbers to see which is higher than I don't think D&D is his biggest problem.
Posting in a shill thread.
I am DM'ing for six friends. Two (two!) of them are PhD students, and they are baffled by ability checks, stats, advantage/disadvantage and modifiers (especially modifiers). Don't even get me started on spells.
I don't know how to explain it more simply, nor make them understand that what they have to roll to attack is the same fucking thing every single time. It's some kind of weird character-sheet-induced mental block. Maybe I should write a PhD about *that*.
These are mostly fucktards that want to play like whatever normie podcast is popular. They don't seem to understand that there is a whole underlying rules system and just want to bazinga it up to show they have nerd cred.
I've only heard about the Powered by the Apocalypse engine relatively recently, how there's a bunch of shit games but a few really, really good games. What are the bits and pieces of the overall engine, and what are generally considered the better games?
I've been F
DMing a dungeon world campaign for a group of brand new players and they love it. I could see them getting bored with the slower pace gameplay of Pathfinder or DnD