Help me sell D&D to newbies!

[Nightfall]

Like I said, bribery should also be considered.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Heck, you could just model some of the more iconic episodes in Fantasy fiction out there.

For example:

Start them off as locals & travellers in a small village (or a travelling caravan) beset by a party of raiders. After fending off the attack (in which much of the village is leveled) reveal that the village's Headman's daughter has been abducted. The PCs respond to the offered reward and set out after the raiders. They get a random encounter with something along the trail...maybe they find a pretty shiny thing in the process.

Etc.

 

[Nightfall]

So what you want them to be Jack Sparrow, Will Turner and Elizabeth?!

 

[ivocaliban]

Like I said, bribery should also be considered.

The first thing that popped into my mind when I read the title of this thread was: pizza.


Free food opens doors. You know, just like Hansel & Gretel.

 

[Nightfall]

I was more considering money...but yeah food works. Especially if the wife is a cholo-holic

 

[ssampier]

I would keep it simple and straight-forward at this stage. The minis + plot may be a way to go (I think the D&D Basic Games takes this approach).

The first thing that popped into my mind when I read the title of this thread was: pizza.


Free food opens doors. You know, just like Hansel & Gretel.

I was thinking beer myself. But each to his/her own.

 

[Darklone]

I always did it like that:
Invite them for a weekend afternoon. Good wine, food, beer, whatever. Run them (and perhaps others) through a nice beginners adventure (I've been using Wizards Amulet since years).

Make it a one shot.

I did it four times so far and someone always wanted to start a regular group.

 

[Nyaricus]

Just make them watch one of the D&D moies They'll be sold on D&D after that.

 

[Darklone]

Just make them watch one of the D&D moies They'll be sold on D&D after that.

There ARE absolutely NO D&D movies!!!

 

[Mighty Halfling]

D&D? Isn't that, like, Satanic?