r/LFG_Europe

Hello everyone.
I've come here rarely and am no reddit expert by even the faintest stretch of any imagination.

TL;DR:
I will DM a bigger campaign in the future and am asking for advice on how to find the perfect players.

I am a player at heart that loves DND, so much so that playing once every 1-2 weeks isn't enough anymore.
I've spend some free hours the last two or three months when overly motivated on just working out my own campaign.
Don't worry I have ran two full campaigns before, both starting as book campaigns that then were heavily added to or continued after the official book concluded.
This time my idea was not to make a whole world and do a million things.

I love tropes. I think tropes arent always bad and I would love to run a campaign that tries to capture a lot of DnD tropes people might've not seen before or haven't had enough off from Goblins to Dragons and Cults and Supermarket Simulators, whatever their hearts desire.

I have started to think of initial plot hooks, picked a Faerûn location so its just playing in the regular 5e Forgotten Realms world to maybe even have more tropes met with seeing known cities or NPCs down the line. I figured out a start, started writing up NPCs quests and even started preparing it all in FoundryVTT. I've always loved preparing DnD and been buying maps from mapmakers on patreon that I will probably never get to used but the 200GB of images on my harddrive finally need a usecase haha.

God excuse my rambling I just really love DnD and would love like minded players that pour effort into their characters, knowing I'd do my best to make their characters and backstory matter and feel fun to play, that are dependable like myself, we all know scheduling is the reaper of having a good time in this hobby. People who I can get along with even out of the game and dont just meet up and dont talk to before or after any given session. People dont have to become besties but becoming friends should be something to aspire to!

I come before the big council here asking if anyone has genuine advice, that is helpful and applicable on how to find people. I know finding people is easy as we all (im a player too!) love playing but there isnt enough DMs to go around! but I dont want just anyone. I want people who all get along and maybe the way to go is finding a long standing DnD enthusiastic friendgroup and DM for them or something, I am really lost on how to approach this as I hopefully just want to start playing once I am prepared far enough ahead of time and dont have to cancel a group and restart, replaying parts of my campaign again.. That might take the joy out of it and putting in weeks and months of work to throw away would be a shame too even if it was fun to make regardless.

Any advice is welcome seriously! I want to find people very much in love with the game as much as myself.

I hope I wasted no ones time, if I get any replies I might alter the post because right now I look at this wall of text and its genuinely just yapping for 10mins and hoping the response is more productive than my post.. Unlikely but lets hope!

Hey everyone. I've had this module recommended to me countless times, and it's something I'd like to DM, but I want to experience it as a player first to get the 'full strahd experience'.

Other than reading a player primer on here and knowing the general themes, I know nothing about the module itself.

About me:

I'm a 28 year old queer guy and a forever DM. Been playing since uni, and DM a biweekly in person game with friends that has just finished up. Very familiar with the 2014 ruleset (and dabbled into other TTRPGs for oneshots), but welcome any homebrew stuff and/or mixing or changing to 2024 if the DM prefers.

Table:

I always have a ton of character ideas on the backburner, but if I join an established table I'm happy to work together on what could be useful to the party. (I don't minmax and prefer to make my characters 'real' people, but I'm happy playing pretty much any class)

Campaign wise, I really enjoy roleplay, exploration and character-driven stuff. My ideal table is one where everyone cares about the world, the NPCs and our characters. I love seeing how players show the impact of the adventure on their characters, or the DM gives out consequences for actions etc. Combat is great as long as it isn't "just hit it" for 3 hours.

Technical:

I have experience on roll20 and discord, but should be able to learn any other applications without much trouble. I have a mic, and I'm happy to have my camera on or off when we play.

My only non-negotiable is that all other players and the DM are over 18, even if we don't touch adult subjects, that just makes me more comfortable. (But judging from the trigger warnings... CoS is better as 18+ anyway).

I'm very flexible on frequency, days and times. As long as it doesn't change week-to-week, almost anything else I do I can arrange around DnD.

Feel free to DM me or post below if you have any questions. Fingers crossed someone has room for an extra person!

(While I'd generally prefer a group, I have played one-on-one dnd before so happy for that as an option too!)