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ShortQuests -- Pocket Sized Adventures! An all-new collection of digest-sized D&D adventures designed for 1-2 game sessions.

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 9873565" data-attributes="member: 3285">Oh I agree it's for new players -- brand new players. As I mentioned in the hilarious example listed after that point, you can also make characters at high speed -- but when making the character, the person doing it didn't actually know what a plasmoid was, or thought to ask if that made sense in my campaign world, or that the player he created the character for wanted to play a blob (the fun part was that he LOVED IT). Fast? Five minutes, he said. Accurate, relevant, nuanced? Not a all.When I teach players D&D, I am teaching the game in as much of its entirety is in the core rules. I think digital works great for spot rules checks, for experienced players, for players with physical or learning disabilities. But what I've seen, conversely, is my in-person players (even the experience ones) are surprised by what's "in the actual books" compared to their experience of playing D&D online for years. 2024 has reset our understanding of 2014 rules, and we are constantly bumping up against 1) that's actually not in the rules anymore, 2) the rules are now different, 3) what you thought was a rule was probably a house rule that wasn't in 2014 or 2024. In short, digital is no longer guaranteed accurate. And what I've learned from that is in some cases, players didn't know the foundation of the rule (actually, grapple requires a melee attack first, THEN a saving throw) because they read it out of context, not in actual play, and not with the rules in front of them when physical play was happening.This applies to me too. But I am definitely retaining rules better because I can both flip to the page (thanks to my hand thumb index!) and with each time the rules come up, fix it in place and time both in the book and at my table's timeline of events in my head.</blockquote>

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