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Hello there,

My name is Mesonyx and I found myself rewatching Critical Role again, which had me interested in Dungeons and Dragons. I was hoping there were more people interested in this, or able to explain some of the rules and such to me. I have never played it myself, but I really want to some day.

So if there's any interest, maybe we could create a group.

Otherwise, I'd love for someone to just explain things to me!

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Heya, I'd be happy to go through some stuff on PM if you'd like to have a bit of a chat about stuffs!
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Would you actually want to play? I could probably run something...but I really shouldn't. RL stuff. May be able to play, though. With the understanding I like more RP and social stuff than combat, but combat's okay sometimes when you have worthwhile features (sucks at low levels, what with all the "I ATTACK IT WITH MY DAGGER" "I ATTACK IT WITH MY DAGGER" "I ATTACK IT WITH MY DAGGER" vs "dagger-dagger-dagger..."

Watching Critical Role myself. Got me to reconsider trying out 5e. Now I have my own stuff for it. I'm super far behind in it and really want to know what's going on currently. SO MUCH NEW STUFF I DON'T UNDERSTAND! Like why Vax has wings in fan art now, and who this new guy is. OMFG I WANNA KNOW.
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I have heard the series implements a number of house rules, so when you do review it try to take everything with a grain of salt. I would recommend reading the Fifth Edition Player's Handbook first and or browsing the internet some to answer your questions or it might turn slightly more confusing than going in uninitiated already is. Then again, I am not sure how many they have or how extreme they are, so they might have already improved on a very solid system or just gone with what their players enjoy.

Regardless, if you do have any further questions and wish to learn the game, @Mesonyx, I am willing to assist as well.
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@CaughtInTheRiddle@Ermine@The Harbinger of Ferocity

Thank you for the replies everyone!

I'm really a beginner as in: i've been watching Critical Role for 30 episode which I love, but that's literally it. I'd love for someone to be able to explain the basics and - if someone has time - could be able to send me some examples or would be willing to try something out.

I've read some parts of the player handbooks, including one for the DM, but I honestly don't get most of it. Like how they determine what advantages you have in certain checks or when you have a disadvantage?? What?
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Advantage and disadvantage could be very loosely understood as a factor the Dungeon Master assigns when they believe it is appropriate. Players can and should justify why something would or would not grant them advantage or disadvantage based on events, but Fifth Edition leaves that up to the Dungeon Master to rule on. For example, if one were to leap upon a table and swashbuckle from it while kicking plates off it, the player could argue that they have advantage; after all, their character is a swashbuckler and high ground would regularly give advantage.

While the Dungeon Master arbitrates such cases advantage is always applied, as with disadvantage, if the rules explicitly say they are. Thus some spells that grant advantage like Faerie Fire always do. The only exception to this is if they would cancel out.

If you had two disadvantageous factors and one advantageous one, you would make a single roll rather than four. Advantage and disadvantage always cancel one another out despite how many there might be on either side; the result is always a neutral roll.

Hopefully that answers the first question I can help with, @Mesonyx.
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You're actually farther into Critical Role than I am; I just finished episode 21 a couple minutes ago. ^~^ But yeah, basically what Harbinger said. Also, you either have (dis)advantage, or you don't. You can't have like 50 advantage factors to get 51 die rolls; it's still just 2 rolls.

On that note, I personally find learning a system to be easiest if I make a character from scratch (or even a few characters), and then play. Some people only need the play portion, since you don't need to know the rules yourself, honestly (though it's nicer to the DM to know them); you say what you want to do, the DM tells you whether or not you can do it, and how to do so mechanically. I mean, even if you know the rules, that's still the case most of the time.

But I'm moderately sure the reason I was holding back from this is...mostly dissolved now? So I could run it, I guess. I don't do anything with voice (because reasons), so doing it on here (since we have a die roller~) is possible. Or roll20. Whichever. If you want a live game, roll20. Otherwise, here, I guess~

If I do run a game for everyone, I'll probably have a DM PC, unless a) the group is absolutely against that, or b) the group is decent-sized (5+) already. I tend to play support roles with DM PCs, so everyone else gets to be awesome. (Playing a healer/buffer/debuffer in my current live game, but we have a party of 3, and we're about to be fighting dragons at level 3, with one person who has only played DnD with us so far, and all of us new to 5e (I learn quickly, and 5e is super easy to learn once you have a handle on it, especially compared to 3.5 and Pathfinder), so...yeah...let them do their awesome sorcery and thievery).

I promise, I'm more coherent in-game. O_O

Edit: Also, I enjoy creative uses of things (like when you've seen Keyleth use thorn whip for stuff, because I have yet to see her use it as written).
Technically the same edit: Dreamscarred Press liked the homebrew conversions of their stuff I posted on Twitter and said it was "pretty cool" a few days ago, so I'm in a much better headspace since when I posted the first time, and have liked all the other content I've posted so far, so next step is use all that stuff to get hired~

Edit2: That last edit had nothing to do with credibility or anything. I'm just super excited still. Whole "Senpai noticed me" thing.

Edit3: My 11 year old sister's got it down. Not that it means much since she's taking high school classes, and will be taking some college ones next year...but still, she went in with next to no experience in Pathfinder, barely picked up even just her class features (druid). Once we switched over, she had everything down the first game.
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Just wanted to jump in and say that if you guys decide to group up together for anything Dungeons and Dragons, I am 100% in.
I just started watching Critical Role because a friend had me play D&D with them - one of the best experiences I've had!

Though, that being said, I am relatively new to this style of roleplay... However, I'm quickly becoming a huge fan of it xD
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@Monster It really is super fun if you get a good group that's not all composed of That Guys.
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If @Ermine would not be running it, I would be willing to teach the system as well, @Monster, @Mesonyx. While my air of seriousness will not be gone in such a light, know that I am not unforgiving and certainly do understand I intend for you to enjoy the experience, especially that it is your first voyage into the material.
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@Ermine That sure was one heck of a plot twist xD That was an interesting take on playing a paladin, though.

@The Harbinger of Ferocity Thank you! I appreciate the offer of help, and will surely take you up on it if need be.
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I know I'm new to this forum, but I also am looking for a play-by-post RP D&D 5e. I DM'd a game that just ended (lasted about a year or so), so I'm fairly well-versed in mechanics and would be willing to help with any questions people would have. I'm also really interested in trying out some of the new Unearthed Arcana archetypes. I'm playing a Revised Beastmaster Ranger in another game, and she's been quite fun to play.

It looks to me that there are at least 5 or more people interested in starting up a game. Although I've DM'd before, I would prefer not to DM as my first game on a new forum, so I won't toss my hat into that particular ring. But I feel like it might be a good opportunity to talk about things like settings, house rules (if any), who the DM would be, etc.
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I'd be keen to join in with you guys.

I play it with a group of friends in RL, but post-by-post shouldn't be too bad.

Have you guys heard of discord? I can make a group server on that where we can actually have a chat room instead of a forum like this.
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@CaughtInTheRiddle I have a Discord account, but I believe some people prefer the forums for things like ensuring everyone who wants to join has equal access to the information. Also, my free time is limited, so I would not be able to participate in many live sessions / discussions. Skype is better for me since I can use it at work.
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If I end up running this (as the only person I remember saying they'd be willing to run, I suppose it kind of has to be true), and if for some reason we do it on Discord or Skype, it wouldn't be live sessions anyway. Dun wanna use too many homebrew things with a beginner's game or I'd be like "hey, anyone want to playtest one of my classes so I have a better chance of convincing Dreamscarred Press I'm worth hiring?"

I mean, I can start up a game pretty quickly if everyone's willing to play either on here, or somewhere else without live sessions. Discord would be nice (since I don't generally use Skype much anymore, and only have it on my phone because I haven't bothered to delete it yet) for theoretically quicker character creation help. Because I like to ask a lot of questions to the group, and to individuals, to help flesh out the world and the characters. Even going as far to let people custom-tailor their races and classes (or work with other people playing the same race or class) thematically (current group I have going has sorcerers using the Druid spell list as defenders/defilers of nature through magic, and druids being the more combat-oriented version of the same class; humans as a new race that's a mix of all the other races (because the "base" race they evolved from could breed with other races for evolutionary purposes); and quite a few other fluff things). Of course, there is always the option to play by the book for everything for your race/class.

It makes more sense once I start asking questions. >< That was a weird mix of words all thrown together out of excitement and wanting to get the ideas all out of my head.
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@CaughtInTheRiddle I have a Discord account, but I believe some people prefer the forums for things like ensuring everyone who wants to join has equal access to the information. Also, my free time is limited, so I would not be able to participate in many live sessions / discussions. Skype is better for me since I can use it at work.


I didn't mean to do the actual game on Discord, but just to use it as a general chat room :)
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@CaughtInTheRiddle Was clarifying, or at least restating, my stance. That's all. ^~^
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@CaughtInTheRiddle Was clarifying, or at least restating, my stance. That's all. ^~^


All good! Sorry if that sounded kinda rude, haven't slept much these last couple of days and the way I've been wording stuff has been a little off!
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@CaughtInTheRiddle Nono, you're good. Didn't sound rude at all. O_o

So...if I ran this, who all would be playing?
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Are we going 5e?
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