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<blockquote data-quote="auburn2" data-source="post: 8088479" data-attributes="member: 6855259"><p>The idea that it is too complicated for beginers is hogwash. I started playing without reading a single rule with a friend who also never read a single rule when we started and we had fun.</p><p></p><p>I remember when I first started D&D, it was the redbox 1980s era basic system. Me and my friend Erin (we were 12), watched his older brother (who was 15) play with his friends. I saw it a once or twice, Erin saw it a lot since he lived with his brother.</p><p></p><p>Well Erin and I decided we were going to play D&D. Erin said he was going to be the DM, since he watched his brother play and knew everything about the game. Me and my 10-year old brother would be the players. I asked if being DM meant he talked to the players in riddles since the "DM" in the D&D cartoon talked in riddles ... shows you how much I knew. Erin said no and explained the basics of how the game worked fighters, elves, dwarves, combat .... and everthing he said it turned out was completely wrong. We started playing Keep on the Borderlands (which he did not read either before or during the session) in the back of my dad's station wagon on the way to the beach.</p><p></p><p>Our first D&D session lasted most of the 2-hour drive until the TPK which happened while we were still in the keep. I think Erin thought his ultimate goal as DM was to wipe out the party and "win". We had loads of fun, a rules referee would have said what we were playing was not D&D. Erin was just making it all up, roll this dice, roll that dice, he was using technical words like "hit points" and "secret passage" that he had heard his brother say. I loved it so much I started reading the rulebook on that vacation. It took me about a 2 sentances into the description of Elves to realize Erin got the rules all wrong, but he still got the "game" right (except for the part of trying to kill the party).</p><p></p><p>Over the next few years we recruited a few of our friends and started playing with me as DM pretty regularly. We moved to AD&D 1e and I became an expert in the rules and after that we played mostly by the rules.</p><p></p><p>My point in this post is people can play and D&D and even DM without understanding the rules at all and the #1 rule in 5e - the DM has final say - means that you can do this "legally" as well. Using your imagination to make a fun immersive story is the important piece, not the rules. If people understand that and if they are welcomed by any rules-mongers at the table it won't be intimidating or difficult to start at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="auburn2, post: 8088479, member: 6855259"] The idea that it is too complicated for beginers is hogwash. I started playing without reading a single rule with a friend who also never read a single rule when we started and we had fun. I remember when I first started D&D, it was the redbox 1980s era basic system. Me and my friend Erin (we were 12), watched his older brother (who was 15) play with his friends. I saw it a once or twice, Erin saw it a lot since he lived with his brother. Well Erin and I decided we were going to play D&D. Erin said he was going to be the DM, since he watched his brother play and knew everything about the game. Me and my 10-year old brother would be the players. I asked if being DM meant he talked to the players in riddles since the "DM" in the D&D cartoon talked in riddles ... shows you how much I knew. Erin said no and explained the basics of how the game worked fighters, elves, dwarves, combat .... and everthing he said it turned out was completely wrong. We started playing Keep on the Borderlands (which he did not read either before or during the session) in the back of my dad's station wagon on the way to the beach. Our first D&D session lasted most of the 2-hour drive until the TPK which happened while we were still in the keep. I think Erin thought his ultimate goal as DM was to wipe out the party and "win". We had loads of fun, a rules referee would have said what we were playing was not D&D. Erin was just making it all up, roll this dice, roll that dice, he was using technical words like "hit points" and "secret passage" that he had heard his brother say. I loved it so much I started reading the rulebook on that vacation. It took me about a 2 sentances into the description of Elves to realize Erin got the rules all wrong, but he still got the "game" right (except for the part of trying to kill the party). Over the next few years we recruited a few of our friends and started playing with me as DM pretty regularly. We moved to AD&D 1e and I became an expert in the rules and after that we played mostly by the rules. My point in this post is people can play and D&D and even DM without understanding the rules at all and the #1 rule in 5e - the DM has final say - means that you can do this "legally" as well. Using your imagination to make a fun immersive story is the important piece, not the rules. If people understand that and if they are welcomed by any rules-mongers at the table it won't be intimidating or difficult to start at all. [/QUOTE]
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