How to Best Introduce New Players to Roleplaying Games
Note: I recently introduced a couple of new players to Dungeons and Dragons. Below are some lessons I learned. These points should be applicable to other roleplaying games.
Ask the players to think of a concept for their characters. Briefly describe to the players each class and race. Use some examples where possible such as Merlin and Gandalf would be powerful Wizards, Gimli of Lord of the Rings is a Dwarf, etc. While they probably shouldn't be encouraged to simply play a character just like a particular movie or book character (a player's creativity is part of the game) it is fair to suggest that they make a character that is a cool archer like Lord of the Ring's Legolas, but has the personality of a character from the Harry Potter books.
Ask the players to roll or assign their ability scores according to your group's house rules.
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Note: I recently introduced a couple of new players to Dungeons and Dragons. Below are some lessons I learned. These points should be applicable to other roleplaying games.
Ask the players to think of a concept for their characters. Briefly describe to the players each class and race. Use some examples where possible such as Merlin and Gandalf would be powerful Wizards, Gimli of Lord of the Rings is a Dwarf, etc. While they probably shouldn't be encouraged to simply play a character just like a particular movie or book character (a player's creativity is part of the game) it is fair to suggest that they make a character that is a cool archer like Lord of the Ring's Legolas, but has the personality of a character from the Harry Potter books.
Ask the players to roll or assign their ability scores according to your group's house rules.
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