r/DnD_Beginners

I’m building a beginner friendly D&D learning app and would love some early feedback.

What is something you would want to see in an app like this, or expect it to help you learn?

I have never played D and D but have always been intrigued by it. Want to start playing it online. Is there any community willing to welcome and teach a newbie?
I am based in India, so Indian time would suit me.

Thanks in advance.

So I have not played that often, but I got so many things I wanna do and create. So I thought why not give it a shot XD any tips are welcome! :)

Hey everyone, this is my first ever D&D campaign and first character, so I wanted advice from more experienced players.

I’m currently a Level 5 Aberrant Mind Sorcerer and trying to optimize my spell choices better because I realized I was lacking AoE, battlefield control, and overall versatility.

Right now I’m considering spells like:

• Shield
• Mage Armor
• Misty Step
• Suggestion
• Tasha’s Mind Whip
• Fireball
• Hypnotic Pattern
• Dissonant Whispers
• Hunger of Hadar

For cantrips I’m thinking:

• Mind Sliver
• Fire Bolt
• Minor Illusion
• Mage Hand
• Prestidigitation
• Ray of Frost

Metamagic:

• Quickened Spell
• Twinned Spell

Questions:

1. Are there any spells I should absolutely swap out?
2. Is Fireball worth taking even on Aberrant Mind?
3. Is Hypnotic Pattern better than straight damage most of the time?
4. What spells ended up carrying your Aberrant Mind Sorcerer at Level 5?
5. Any mistakes first-time Sorcerer players usually make?

Would appreciate any advice. Really enjoying the class so far.

I was wondering what the best way would be to start getting into Dungeons & Dragons. I watched a few Videos online, especially about a Campaign called 'Uprooted' by Legends of Avantries. But I never played it. I don't know how damage or battles work.

I don't have any people who would want to try out DnD, so, what would be the best way to get into it? I have a really old book about starting a DnD Campaign with Character Creation and such. But, if I don't have any players, what would I do?

Just a genuine question, hope I'll might get some help.

Hello

I have been a DM for 1 year now.

When I started I was not superconfident and I asked AI to help.

I wanted to make a post about my experience as there are many problems AI caused me at the beginning.

One shot

As a first time DM with first time players I wanted to try a one off campaign. I asked AI to recommemd one shots and it did give me some decent suggestions. I am not opposed to that use of it but asking a forum would get the same advice with more personal recomendatiins and advice on the modules being recommended.

Having chosen A Very Potent Brew, I wanted to feed into the LMOP. I went to AI again and here I asked it to help generate a hook between the one shot and the campaign. It's suggestion now makes me cringe. It told me to send a letter to all the players saying come to Neverwinter because there are bad fey. The fairies are not part of the plot for either the one shot or the LMOP so this AI invention did not set my players up for the game I wanted to play.

This caused problems with the campaign becuse when i did introduce the starter quest for LMOP, (twice) the players declined as they had to help investigatr the bad fey.

Not learning my lesson, I asked AI again and it told me to create a 4 episode fey arc then do the LMOP quest. Session 1 was go to Mount Hotenow. By session 11 they had still not left mount hotenow and I was really struggling to know what to do as a gm. I had already sent Gundrum Rockseeker again to point to LMOP and again been blocked.

Having read wikis since I know that the plot hooks AI was feeding me were just rip offs from a dnd video game.

In terms of encounter building, AI had no idea how to ballance combat. They were all either super easy or dedly and I was gaining false confidence in how to measure that by asking AI.

I read a lot about fey to try and make sense of what to do from here. I noticed that AI knew basically nothing about eearlier editions of d&d and often even if I asked specific questions about earlier lore it would deny it existed or lie and make stuff up. But while AIs story telling made me lost, the books filled me with ideas and inspiration.

Luckily this is where I turned to another DM for help and he helped me to structure the homebrew campaign and learn how to ballance combat.

Once I had a structure the players started to have more fun.

Even for things like random name generators - it has recommended Elaria three times and Moonshadow 3 times.

Similarly for maps - the gridlines are not consistently sized squares so cant be aligned on a vtt and often it has no idea how to do the top down battle map view for certain objects. There was an existing map I wanted to decorate for fey fest but it wasnt even able to do that without randomly adding extra buildings.

The text descriotions AI gives are ok at first but very quickly it becomes obvious that it is an AI voice. It also insists on repeting stuff (e.g. if the player tells me what they said thrn AI will repete that back as if everyone has dementia) or randomly changing the time so the sun is rising and setting and midday randomly during the conversation

There are a few uses it is ok for. Asking something specific like owls in mythology when I decided to make a parliment of owls pointed me towards figures I could reearch.

I understand that AI can look like a good tool when starting out but often the time it saves, you just have to spend later fixing the problems it created. Nothing beats human advice, the dnd setting books and your own imagination.

I am not against AI in principle but AI is not good at being a DM.

starting off this is a ditch account and no names will be used: I 26m have just started my first real dnd campaign and not just multishots. We have 3 of my irl friends playing and 4 online friends playing. Two of my irl friends are doing brother characters that they have had saved for multiple years together. They are very indepth homebrew characters (seem very overtuned so far) one of them is the intelligent dragonborn warlock and the other is a very low iq (6int) draconborm barbarian. I am playing an assassin rouge with a greedy streak but helps in the group. The issues came up first session in but came to a larger head at the 3rd session. Befire eveb the first session the 6int character ill call Glut. Tells everyone for weeks how strong his character is and talks over and over about how if you dont feed his character he will get violent with you. First session starts and glut tries to eat multiple dead npcs rations off the corpses as a fight starts. Well that can be simply chalked up to his character no issue. When the fight is done without any prompt he goes back to it and two other player characters, one brand new to dnd. wants to get on his good side, one of them is warforged and the other is a skeleton of somesort(not yet known). Both do not need to eat so they give him all of their rations with no concern which he takes and eats as much as he can. His brother character takes some away for later but he still tries. The other players have agency but it's metagaming to me to just give a guy a bunch of food you just met with no request. The dead npcs have a few dead horses so my character, a survivalist, butchers the hindquarters of a horse and bleeds it and hangs it from their bag. Then the area ends we travel and then set up camp. I see the brother character set up an altar and burn food to it as a sort of ritual. I keep this in mind. two sessions later we arive at the edge of the first city. the brother goes to make an offering before we head in so i offer him two fish i caught from a nearby lake as we made our travels. He uses them for the ritual. This establishes i will give up food to them but only for this ritual (the greedy character wouldnt blindly give food but if there is possible protection we are recieving i paid into it) This was the best way i could come up with to try to apease the situation Glut has made.

We have successfuly escorted the woman who survived the event where the npcs died and get rewarded for her return. We are advised to sign up with the guilds in town to recieve legal papers to be able to enter and exit this town on our own. Great going well. We have some down time and the magically adept wish to seek out a store for magical wears and materials. They are advized by the guild master and they set off. This leaves myself, Glut, and the newbie bard who gave him his rations without ever being asked. We are sitting in the bar area I buy myself a drink and wait by a symbol i see on the wall (theives cant) glut sees the mission requests and is trying to judge them based on the photos since he cant read, the bard goes over and reads the mission word for word to the glut, even the request where the reward is 8,000 gp, and 1 month worth of rations for clearing out blood flies from an overrun butcher shop. His character freaks out with excitement saying hes going to get 30 rations as a reward and insists we do this mission first. I walk over and read it and say, well it says 30 rations and the money so it would be split between the group. So youd get a some because everyone would get some. His character gets pissed, saying im trying to take his food away. i said no i am not im saying the reward doesnt say 30 rations for everyone it says 30 rations total, ive gotta eat too man. He then grabs me by the throat and says again im trying to seal from him and just using big words to get away with it. The bard puts his hand against his arm holding me telling him to let me go. Glut listens since the bard fed him twice and he throws my character as he lets go. I draw my daggers since ive been assaulted by him and then his character gets more pissed and asks tries to fight in the guild but the guild leader tells us to go outside, i say i dont want to fight you. He keeps asking for us to go outside so he can kill my character. The DM, gluts bff, steps in with the others ariving back around then.

Post session gluts player, hey, sorry for almost killing your character. in a dimeaning way. I said you character could certainly have tried. he launches in bragging about how strong his character is and i said i could fly away, he said he has a mechanic that lets him increase his fly speed to 120 and i would fly faster than you and just breath weapon you to death, I said you know, not everyone has to do everything you say, were not all here playing your little fantasy, if your level 3 character can so easily just kill mine its the DM's fault for letting you play it. You cant brag about how your character is good at everything excluding intelligence and force other people to do what you say, my character has their own mission their own goals. Youre not the only important one. Id just fly to the guards take damage along the way and youd be arrested by them since they would be much stronger as capital guards than a lvl 3, then its jail or fine.

Gluts character after being called out goes to drop out of the campaign since no one likes his character, the dm's cousin complained about how glut was acting. I spoke to Gluts player again and asked if the inteligence issue and flaw of being perpetually hungry could be played slightly different, for example you can eat dangerous things out of hunger, or you be hostile about food towards people outside of this group but not inside. He said " It cannot, my character will not change, I have been putting him together for 2 years and people dont like him. I will not be changing how he acts and or make a new character." He then continues the threat of dipping out until more than 50% are asking for him to stay in the game. Then he says he will keep playing but hes not going to change anything still. I mention even a 3 strike rule would be better than, my teammate made my character angry once, he deserves to die and then try to kill them. I will not be feeding his character im playing someone Greedy, I made concessions to try to make a bridge, He is unwilling to change a behavior slightly for his overtuned, arrogant dragonborn.

TLDR: dnd campaign starts, 6 int teammate demands everyone feed his character or he will hate you, my first conversation with him I tell him a mission reward of food is for everyone and he tries to kill my character with no hessitation. DM is his best friend but still told him to stop. Teammate threatens to leave until people beg him to come back and he insists there will be no change to his character.

How do I navigate this situation, The DM does care more about this game than Glut but glut comes immediately after. Can this situation be salvaged or is it better to get out while its early. Another Irl friend is joining as a first time player too and is likely to just do what Glut says personality wise I dont think this behavior will stop. I cannot reconcile being a survivalist rogue character and giving a dumb oaf all of my food to just not die.

I'm a new player. Nothing much else to be said I'm new to DND beyond and I'm looking to join a campaign^^

Finally made a clean D&D Notion planner built for campaigns without
all the bloated stuff — includes a Campaign Tracker, Player Sheets,
Ability Sheets, and Party Tracker so everything stays organized in one
place during sessions. Great for DMs or players who want a modern
all-in-one hub for their campaign. Would love feedback from other
D&D players

Link will be in comments and use code notion80

Hey its pretty much my first time playing dnd, and same with my party. We're playing a makeshift DnD and its lowkey pretty much a dungeon crawler so calling it DnD might be a stretch. I made 20 something 3x3 tiles mimicking Wylocks interlocking design just some that dont connect. I've got lego figures for some basic roles, a healer, wizard, archer, warrior because none of us know too much about dnd so I made hopefully fairly balanced classes. My biggest concern is keeping my players having fun and I would really like some tips or help upgrading my setup. Any suggestions for good places to get stuff to add? I have some bugs and stuff from the dollar store. And I have rooms for dedicated mini bosses. I also want to make the combat more interesting so any tips are really appreciated. Thank you

Hey everyone,

I’m looking to put together an online D&D group made up entirely of beginners who want to learn the game together and hopefully turn it into a regular campaign.

I’ve only played a couple of one-shots myself with pre-made characters, so I’m definitely still new. The idea is that nobody really knows what they’re doing yet and we figure it out together instead of being dragged through by experienced players. It could be fun to take turns trying to DM as well.

I’m based in New Zealand so time zones might take a little coordination depending on where people are from, but I’m keen to make it work.

Mostly just looking for relaxed people who have wanted to get into D&D properly but felt intimidated joining established groups.

If that sounds like your thing, send me a message or leave a comment!

HELLO. I am new to the internet side of dnd as my options have widened when it comes to trying to get into this hobby.

I have studied every book I’ve need to know, know most rules and would like to participate as a dungeon master after a few games as a player for some tests games with friends and a game shop nearby.

How do I do this online? SO MUCH TO DO. Where do I even start lol

Hey everyone,

I’m a DM looking to see if anyone here is searching for a game or interested in joining a campaign. I’ve been playing D&D since 2019 and have been DMing for the last couple of years. During that time I’ve written two full campaigns and several one-shots.

I enjoy creating stories with meaningful choices, memorable moments, and a good balance between roleplay, combat, and exploration. I’m happy running for newer players and don’t mind helping people learn the game.

I’m curious if there’s anyone here looking for a DM, or a group needing one. If there’s interest, I can share more about the type of games I run, scheduling, platform, and campaign ideas.

Feel free to comment or message me if you’d like to talk. Thanks!

Hey! So I’m a new soon to be dm and working on two campaigns! Any tips on how to keep things interesting? My dm thinks it’s a good idea to gather a “book” of my favorite races and classes as an alternative to “canon” (my idea tbh) but I would love to know what apps for notes and organization you all use!

I am going to be playing DnD for the first time soon, and I have a character idea and was hoping to get some help with figuring out the more nitty gritty stuff like what stats I should focus on, any subclasses I should pick, or multiclassing (I am thinking of staying away for now as thats rather complicated I feel like for my first time). This with any other help would be greatly appreciated! The character is going to be an Aasimar with either the acolyte or soldier background. For his backstory he is going to be an orphan brought up in an order of Paladins of Selune. He has however found out that he is a son of Shar and was put in that order to destroy it from the inside, he is now conflicted and does not know where he belongs, so he runs away from the order. I ultimately want him to end up back in the Order. For the subclass I think Oath of the Ancients makes most sense? I'd love to hear the opinion of others and figuring out more about my character!

Me and some friends are trying to start an online DnD game but we need a DM to join as we're all fairly inexperienced or new, would anybody be interested or know of anywhere we could find a DM?

We will be playing at 9am (BTS) on Thursdays, most of us are UK based and we have one US (LA) based player.