Recent content by Blandco

Neither. It's me looking for a vanilla D&D game that welcomed new players and finding almost none out there.

If I went by my experiences as a DM I would have a similar experience as you have. No issues. However, like I said for research I have went in as a player looking at the online games that were available to me and I found the issues with DM authority consistently overriding player choice. I...

It's been covered by many articles. Most games never came to a satisfying conclusion and ended up dragging on and on. The number one point most people come to is that house rules always ruined the basic gameplay. Interesting isn't it...

Again no system mastery is considered. An experienced player will be less disappointed by restrictions than a brand new player who just read the PH and was looking forward to playing a dwarf. That's all. Just considering the perspective of the player.

I picked Monopoly specifically because rules variation ruined most games played in 90s.

None. My answer comes from the perspective of a new D&D player who might have their interest piqued by something in the PH or free rules.

I agree. Call me old fashioned but a quick level 1 session is fine. I can only reach out blindly and see what I see. I am being honest with what I encountered out there.

Then that DM should probably advertise a game as being for experienced players and not new ones. In my opinion.

But to a brand new player they are.

I am but a blind man attempting to describe the elephant in front of me! Perhaps I am hoping my small proddings will eventually get the elephant to move a bit. It certainly is easier to pretend the elephant does not exist. But I will continue prodding and see where things go.

If the DM claims to want to run a game of 5E and then does not not allow the PC races that are in the PH... I don't think it's "Entitlement" to expect to be able to play something in the book that you bought as an eager board game enthusiast? It's a board game. I have never seen someone throw...

Well...I mean SOMEONE online has to be correct about D&D? I am just a humble guy trying to look out for everyone in the hobby.

And don't even get me started on the whole - "Start the game at level 3" for ALL games including games that include new players that was all the rage about 5 years ago. (Oh God 6 years ago now.) Literally the only place I saw online that had a majority of DM understanding why lower level...

I looked for people accepting new players in games on Roll20 forums, Discord servers of popular Youtubers and LFG forums on D&D beyond. Hardly any Youtubers are specifically instructing DMs to be restrictive because it's easier. However, there seems to be many DMs who are badly interpreting...