Hi there! I’m looking for some players for a D&D game I’d like to run. I wrote up a thing like a Q&A below.
You’re doing the what now?
Dungeons and Dragons! I’m going to run a short game which will probably be … six sessions long? Ballpark? The vibe I’m going for is Princess Bride (as opposed to Lord of the Rings or Star Trek or gothic vampire world or cyberpunk … but btw if anyone wants to run a cyberpunk game please hit me up.) I’ve set it up to be sort of “monster of the week/month” rather than having a long term plot and you’ll be starting with pre-generated level 1 characters.
How many people do you need?
Three to five. @Smacky already said she’s interested, come join us!
What if I want to roll my own character instead of using the pre-generated one?
Works for me! I’m excited to see what you make. You’ll still be level 1 though.
But what if I’ve never played before?
Totally fine! We’ll help you. Come on in, make yourself comfy. Like Ms. Frizzle said, take chances, make mistakes, get messy.
When?
Either Monday or Tuesday nights (I’d prefer Tuesday nights) starting at 7:30pm Eastern running till 9:30 or 10. We’ll try this out and see if it works for people or if it’s too short to get anything done. I have a few tools in mind to help things along even with shorter sessions.
Speaking of tools, how the heck do we play?
The website Roll20 is available for free and will house the game part of it. I figure we can use the OMD Discord for audio, so having a headset with a mic will be very helpful. I also want the players to maintain a notes document so everyone knows what’s going on at the beginning of the next session, so Google Docs seems like a good way to have collaborative notes. I’m also going to have a Session Zero to get started.
What’s a Session Zero?
I’m treating it as a set up session. At the beginning of the game the player characters already know each other, session zero will give us a chance to talk out how they met (recently? long ago?) and maybe try out some combat in a way that doesn’t “count” so if your character accidentally fireballs themselves into death it’s fine, session one will start off like that didn’t happen. I will also be going through some safety tools, which is a way to make sure everyone is going to have a fun time and not have to worry about a violent scene coming from nowhere and making you feel uncomfortable. For example, child endangerment is a hard no for me. I think in terms of movie ratings this game will be around PG/PG-13.
Anything else?
Uuuuh, not that I can think of? If you have questions feel free to ask.
Sounds good. One thought I had with the “monster of the week” vibe is it’ll make it easier for people to dip in and out if they know life is about to get busy.
Does anyone know if there’s a reason I shouldn’t post the OMD Discord here? Google did just tell me that for those who are already “in” to share it, right-click on the OMD server icon on the left menu bar and an Invite People option is there.
Im interested in suggesting this to Ponder, will discuss with him in the morning. I think it would be over our morning time which I can handle by myself once a week.
Someday I’ll play D&D again. Maybe when my kid is old enough to put himself to bed because the time between “wiggler bedtime” and “Clare bedtime” is clearly insufficient.
I’ve got another idea for a game, this one is going to be structured differently to defeat the biggest BBEG of all, scheduling.
This game is going to be a haunted house set up and players will start off in individual instances. I’m going to use a Google doc between me and the player and Google Drawing to show the map. Instead of having a session we’ll interact a couple times a week - this also has the benefit that you can read what I wrote and then mull on it a bit and reply back whenever you have time the next day (or two days later or longer. Life happens, we’ve all been there.) I’m going to trust you to do the rolls on your own and let me know what they are. Let me know if you’re interested and we’ll figure out characters and stuff. It’ll be starting at low level.
Intro for flavor:
You’re in a red cloud for so long. Have you always been in this cloud? Other colors are a distant memory - if you think about it really hard you think you remember … gray? Is that what it’s called? As you think about it, it becomes clearer. And brown, you remember brown. The colors come back to you and start to take shape - you’re in a room. A room with walls, gray walls … there’s a wooden floor, a gray rug on the floor.
Your memories of yourself return to you as well. The last thing you remember was a red gem.
The door opens and a maid bustles in with her tools to sweep out the fireplace, closing the door behind her. “Oh!” she stops short as she sees you in the room. “I beg your pardon, I didn’t realize we had a guest. I’ll return later.” She bobs a quick curtsy and before you can say a word she goes through the door.
Playing will happen via a text document but I will also provide a link to a Google Draw file (pictures, basically) with a map of the house. I’m not worried about where exactly your character is standing in a room, it’s more to help everyone be on the same page about how big a room is, are there windows, this hallway has X number of doors in it and you’ve only explored one or two of the rooms so there’s more doors to check out, etc.
