I played D&D for the very first time this Saturday (Forgotten Realms, Sunless Citadel, as a Duergar Rogue) and it was super fun! Was wondering if anyone else has played this before and can share tips/stories/banter.
Iām playing tonight, actually! Itās a weekly thing I do with some mates with characters & world weāve been using for a couple of years now. We have āfiller arcsā (our DM doesnāt like us calling them filler arcs) where we mess about the city we have as our base (where we own a pub called āThe Cat and Dragonā (so called because Iām a gnome that spends a lot of time in the form of a cat and we have a magically preserved dragonās head with us at all times)) in between major stories. We donāt take things too seriously, as does the DM, and itās good fun.
I suspect our approach of making every encounter a comedy might rub some DMs the wrong way, so i guess a tip would be to be aware of how the DM reacts to what you do and try to follow the groove of other players.
Great tip! My DM is pretty into the comedy himself (one of our NPCs was an improvised goblin ladladlad but I canāt assume all DMs are into that.
What kinda filler arcs though?
I know Iāve played D&D, but it was 40 years ago. All I remember is that a good game needs a good DM.
Well, recently we had a small investigation about the city where we had to deal with some kidnappers, which would eventually lead to our next big quest. However, we got attacked by some kenkus but we ended up making friends with one despite the city treating them as vermin.
Because of us investigating into these kidnappings, and our kenku friend was seen associating with us, he got murdered and displayed outside our pub as a warning. The city didnāt care, because theyāre vermin, so we then decided to go off track to try and, put simply, do a āBand Aidā type deal for the kenkus to try and improve their public image.
We had a lot of fun doing stuff like this that the DM then incorporated into stories later on. We progress quite slowly with main quests, but itās all very casual and we have fun doing whatever we do.
Also Iām a weretiger now, so Iāve got that going for me.
Dark Heresey ftw! I used to play regularly at Uni but I donāt have enough time so itās confined to holidays now
YASS.
Got really into this like two years ago. Played through the Starter Set adventure and had a blast (I had to DM because I was the one persuading folks to play). Would love to get back into it, since I lost my original bunch of players when I moved to Londonā¦
This whole post was amazing
Started to learn MTG very recently, which would be super fun to get into properly . Iād imagine D&D to be the same! I think light comedy + great story telling too would make a great weekly game āā!