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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jbear" data-source="post: 6333424" data-attributes="member: 75065">It sounds like you did okay for having to share 1 PDF to create your characters and start PCs at level 3 considering you had to read many of those rules and wrap your head around them for the first time. Not surprising it took you 2 hours. It also sounds like you were fairly unprepared and making it up as you went along just to give the system a whirl? Would that be a fair comment?The description of play sounds very mechanical and devoid of story, as though you really just wanted to get a grip of the math and mechanics of game play in isolation from the role playing aspect of D&D because of the time pressure. My suggestion would be to have a look at some of those free adventures Morris has put up to give 5e a whirl. I am running the Mad Manor of Azkabar (or something like that) for my 9 year old son and wife just to test out the system. It is a pretty nice intro adventure for level 1 PCs as it has lots of spooky and unsettling things going on, curses, poltergeists, wind effects, puzzles etc. so loads of room for RP, for creating a feeling a threat without too much life threatening threat. I think it is designed for the playtest material as it has a few references to spells and things that are not available in the Basic Rules, but they are things I can pretty much make up the effect for from my imagination, so that has not been a barrier. My son has been loving the game, and to be honest the mechanics have rarely intruded other than with checks, saving throws and one very quick but fun fight with a fun (yet potentially deadly) spell effect going on in the room at the same time. In any case there were a few other adventures on that list that I haven't checked out but putting play into the context of an adventure might add to your experience. But I do agree it will be nice when we have access to the basic list of monsters as well.</blockquote>

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