New Players Rock!!!

[DM with a vengence]

I just started a D&D game with completely new people who have never played D&D before. Since we only play for 30 minutes once a week at lunch the first two sessions were spent rolling up first level characters, and then we played.

It kicked ASS!!! Even though half the group didn't show, it was the best experience I've ever had. They took on a job to clear kobolds out of an invaded dwarven mine. With high initiative rolls, they managed to take out four kobolds and clear two rooms, when unfortunately lunch ran out.

My experienced players, who I fostered off to another DM were 6th level, and despite having shown up 10 minutes earlier, only managed to kill one kobold, and spent most of the time being annoying and complaining how the quest was railroadedand "so obviously the Cain quest from Diablo II".

I love this game!

 

[EricNoah]

It really is fun with fresh players. I DM my wife and another couple once a year on New Years Eve and each time it's like it's brand new to them (and thus to me). We've done standard D&D, Star Wars, Alternity, last year we ran an adventure in Crusades-era Holy Lands. The newbies dig it.

 

[Tyrion]

New players are definitely entertaining...especially when they are complete newbies and have no idea of monsters' weaknesses. For example, a regenerating Troll or two can provide hours of fun, until they figure out the fire/acid thing.

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

I must see to it that I get me a few new players when I get drafted to an Army university in January...

 

[Drawmack]

I find that new players are the spice of life. My game that is starting on 10-20 has three players 2 have been playing for years, 1 played in a single campaign, 3 have never played table top RPGs before.

Two of my biggest things are not out of character talk about characters between players and no out of character talk battle. So I get situation where player A knows about the acid thing but his character doesn't so he can't tell character B who is acctually carrying the acid but is a new player and has no clue what to do.

It makes for great scenarios. I had a battle once that lasted for three hours because none of the experienced players could tell the wizard to just fireball the damn thing.

Newbies are the spice of gaming.

 

[alsih2o]

here in the boondocks outside elvisville, there are no gamers save me, but recently some peers have decided to show an interest.

one friend who helps me in the studio occasionally looked in the phb and declared rather loudly "wha? you mean you can just be one of these cool type guys?!?!" i am sooo stoked at bringing in the newbie

 

[Number47]

I just recently started DMing the "girls group" and two of the six girls have never played before. There was a great moment where I had the rogue attacked at her home by a wizard, a charmed player and two dogs. Any long-term player would have simply pitched in for the meta-game reasons. The newbie with the bard very nearly ran away because it wasn't her fight. She was scared spitless of putting her character in harms way!