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New to online play; a bit overwhelmed. Fast and easy way to get into a game? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by pdxfed@lemmy.world to c/dnd@lemmy.world

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Played a bit years ago for about 6 months in person, have never played online. Starting with a player from scratch; built one on D20 as it seemed like it would be the simplest and tried to join a few games - their d20 or discord servers have absolutely oceans of varied rules and restrictions to dig through and many want you to roll up a character for their specific game within certain rules. I'm sure their rules and restrictions are in place for a good reason, many of them I don't even understand, but for someone just trying to get a basic character going for a basic story to get into the swing of D&D are there better places to look for us simple folks who are trying to learn/remember as much how to play and need things kept relatively simple at this point?

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[–] static@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You could buy your way in, there are allso paid games.
Your time is allso money, how many hours have you spent joining a free game?

Some DM's are hobbyists that run few games, and only ask for a bit of money to buy books and dndbeyond. Others try to have real income from it and run multiple per day.
My favorite one started with $5 games, but went professional. Their quality decreased, and the cost increased.
So I joined oneshots from other DM's untill I found my current one. While I still pay to play, my DM is not doing it for the income.

https://startplaying.games/

[–] static@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Doing it this way lets you experience what style of DM and coplayers you like pretty fast.
And what level of technology you like. For example: I prefer low tech, theater of the mind to roll20. I will not join any fantasygrounds or foundry game.