D&D General Making sure everyone can play D&D

[Reynard]

1,000 page document versus 100,000 pages of internet arguments.

Do you think internet arguments are keeping people from GMing?

 

[Incenjucar]

Do you think internet arguments are keeping people from GMing?

Yes.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

This comes up a lot so I am going to sound like a broken record, but here goes:

GMing is not hard. We (us GenXers) learned how to do it when we were 10 years old. This whole idea that new GMs now need all this specialized hand holding is insulting. Kids are smart. They will figure it out.

The best thing you could do to make sure kids can play D&D? NOT have 3 giant books. Sell a real Basic set that will keep them playing for weeks or months. By the time they are done they will be hooked.

This. So much this.

We could do it. The kids today? Well, they go all the way from aight to lit. I am confident that they can do it at least as well as us.

Not just confident. I know they can. Because I've seen it. They might make mistakes because they "don't know all the rules," but you know what? WHO CARES. They are having fun. They'll figure it all out.

 

[Reynard]

Yes.

Those people should get offline and run some D&D then.

 

[Theory of Games]

Is there some mindset that people should know ALL the rules of a game in order to play it? If so I've never run into it. Until now maybe? I started running D&D at 13 and had read MAYBE 10% of the DMG. But schoolmates wanted to get their murderhobo on and I enabled it. Sometimes I had to stop and look up a rule. Sometimes I had to make a ruling (and not get punched out). But we still had fun.

Crazy Uncle Gary said it himself regarding his own game: we don't NEED rules to have fun. Debating rules is just something of a micro-game in our community and it'll never end. But that debate should never interfere IMO with having fun playing the games, eh?

 

[Incenjucar]

People get frustrated and go do something else. The thread topic is "Making sure everyone can play D&D"

 

[Theory of Games]

 

[Cap'n Kobold]

More full translations of the core 3 books into other languages, and price on D&D beyond set based on locality.

 

[Vael]

My current issues playing DnD are simply:

1. Parents in my playgroup have to often go parent their kids.
2. Players have work interfering with scheduling.

So, what would make more people play DnD from my perspective is more available child care and lower costs of living. IOW, late stage capitalism is blocking my gaming and that's nearly as bad as causing rampant climate change. /s

 

[Incenjucar]

My current issues playing DnD are simply:

1. Parents in my playgroup have to often go parent their kids.
2. Players have work interfering with scheduling.

So, what would make more people play DnD from my perspective is more available child care and lower costs of living. IOW, late stage capitalism is blocking my gaming and that's nearly as bad as causing rampant climate change. /s

Which reminds me, one of the big barriers to many activities is space. Things like motion controls and VR struggle partly because they have a huge space demand that people often cannot afford, and similarly a lot of people just don't have the space for a game-sized table, even if they used folding furniture for everything.