BookTenTiger
He / Him
I was thinking today about times I've run D&D games for friends or acquaintances who aren't normally gamers, and how fun they have always been. I'd love to read about your experiences, too!
Way back in high school, for my birthday I ran a "Be a Nerd for a Night" party in which I invited my normally non-D&D friends to play. This was during 3e, and I created a bunch of premade characters and ran them through a small homemade dungeon. They had a blast! At a high school reunion 10 years later, one guy still remembered the crazy nonsensical name he gave his Lizardman character (something like Yrdsgth).
Then a few years ago I ran a one-shot D&D game for my coworkers, all teachers who had never played. Originally I was going to run the game for just three players, but by the time the night came I had 9 people coming over! It was so funny because everyone immediately fell into standard D&D player roles... One woman came up with an intricate backstory for her character, the school chef named his barbarian "Lizard Daddy", and the boyfriend of a teacher kind of sat back on his phone and just rolled dice when asked to (and then after told me how much fun he'd had). It was pure good D&D.
What are your experiences running games for Non-Gamers?
Way back in high school, for my birthday I ran a "Be a Nerd for a Night" party in which I invited my normally non-D&D friends to play. This was during 3e, and I created a bunch of premade characters and ran them through a small homemade dungeon. They had a blast! At a high school reunion 10 years later, one guy still remembered the crazy nonsensical name he gave his Lizardman character (something like Yrdsgth).
Then a few years ago I ran a one-shot D&D game for my coworkers, all teachers who had never played. Originally I was going to run the game for just three players, but by the time the night came I had 9 people coming over! It was so funny because everyone immediately fell into standard D&D player roles... One woman came up with an intricate backstory for her character, the school chef named his barbarian "Lizard Daddy", and the boyfriend of a teacher kind of sat back on his phone and just rolled dice when asked to (and then after told me how much fun he'd had). It was pure good D&D.
What are your experiences running games for Non-Gamers?