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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 4550386" data-attributes="member: 50987">Welcome, Musketeer!  I'll try my best to answer your questions.1.  AD&D is a fine choice.  The only "problems" you will hear about, in this forum at least, are from people who play different editions of the game.  The thing is, you do not have to play any other edition if you don't want to.  I know people who have been playing AD&D for more than a decade, and haven't had any problems at all.2.  Practice, practice, practice.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  It's like any other game...the more you play it, the better you get at it.  After a few gaming sessions, you will get a feel for the game and how everyone else plays it, and you will find a rhythm that works for everyone.  You will eventually memorize the rules that you use most often, and learn to ignore the ones you never use.3.  You have already found my favorite resource for learning to play...ENWorld!  You can post questions about the AD&D rules over in the questions over in the <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-3rd-edition-rules/" target="_blank">3rd Edition and Older Rules Forum</a>, where AD&D gamers from all over the world are happy to help.  If you are looking for story ideas and advice, write a request in the <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/" target="_blank">General RPG Discussion</a> forum.  There are dozens of other forums for all sorts of things like downloads, NPCs, monsters, ready-to-play adventures...have a look around!4.  The best advice I have ever gotten on playing D&D is this: feel free to make up your own rules.  Create your own monsters and dungeons, write new and interesting spells, make up new weapons and armor, anything you want. 5.  Check out the <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/memberlist.php?do=search" target="_blank">Gamers Seeking Gamers</a> section of this site.   You should be able to find some outgoing gamers who would like a D&D penpal to bounce ideas off of.  You might even be able to join a Play By Post or Play By E-mail game.Happy Gaming!</blockquote>

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