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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 5241790" data-attributes="member: 41321">When I first started dating my husband (before he was my husband, obviously) he had heard of D&D and RPGs, but they had been forbidden in his house growing up and he never went out of his way to learn about him.  Once we started going out he discovered my D&D books, and I swear sometimes he would come over my house not to see me, but to read those books.  If I needed to do something not involving him while he was over the house he would happily curl up on my couch with the PHB.  When my group had a vacancy we invited him in, and he's been a player ever since.I don't think that D&D is a bad place to start.  When my husband was first perusing the PHB it was the 3.0 edition, but I think the 4e book would work as well, perhaps better.  It's been a while since I looked at it, but I recall that a good portion of the first chapter is about what RPGs are and how to play them.This is, of course, assuming that D&D-type fantasy is a genre that she likes.  Many (perhaps even most) people learn best by doing.  If you've got a group that's willing to help her along (or if you're going to do a solo game with her) then you could make her character for her and explain the rules as you go, teaching her slowly as she gets into new situations where new rules are needed.  Remember that for most games you can get away with only the GM knowing the rules.  The players can just describe what they want to do and the GM can apply whatever rules he thinks are best and tell the players what to roll.  This might actually be the best way to introduce a newbie to the game if you want to highlight the freedom of RPGs.</blockquote>

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