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<blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 8973726" data-attributes="member: 7035894">Let's not get carried away. 5+ years? It is a more complicated class for sure, and one I caution new players about, but it is also chosen frequently (almost always by players who identify as female, incidentally, which is interesting; probably something cultural going on), and new players have success with it. It helps that moon druids are super OP at low levels, of course.In my experience, sorcerer is the hardest class for new players, and then bard. Sorcerers because they have to figure out both spells and the interactions of spells and sorcery points. Bards because it really works best as a support class, which is a difficult concept for new players to grasp. Players get the concept of the druid quickly, the complexity comes from all the wild-shape options. But we play using DnDBeyond, which mitigates a lot of that. Mostly I just tell them, &quot;be a bear for this combat and then when you go home look through your options and make a short list.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Clint_L, post: 8973726, member: 7035894"] Let's not get carried away. 5+ years? It is a more complicated class for sure, and one I caution new players about, but it is also chosen frequently (almost always by players who identify as female, incidentally, which is interesting; probably something cultural going on), and new players have success with it. It helps that moon druids are super OP at low levels, of course. In my experience, sorcerer is the hardest class for new players, and then bard. Sorcerers because they have to figure out both spells and the interactions of spells and sorcery points. Bards because it really works best as a support class, which is a difficult concept for new players to grasp. Players get the concept of the druid quickly, the complexity comes from all the wild-shape options. But we play using DnDBeyond, which mitigates a lot of that. Mostly I just tell them, "be a bear for this combat and then when you go home look through your options and make a short list." [/QUOTE]

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