r/PDXDND

TLDR: Sorry for the long post! As a BG3 fan with a few D&D one-shots under my belt, I’m hoping to form a beginner-friendly D&D group centered around a basic Forgotten Realms adventure, maybe a pre-written campaign. Looking for a DM and a few players who want to commit to a recurring game. We can meet up first to make sure everyone clicks before starting.

Post: Hello! I’m hoping to find some like-minded beginners who are relatively new to tabletop D&D and would like to form a group from scratch for a campaign. I’m super new to tabletop RPG having done a couple one-shots and dropping 300+ hours into Baldur’s Gate 3 - I’ve generally enjoyed the one-shots but I’d like to find something more long-term.

I’ve tried some local game groups and they’ve been cool, but they’re mostly geared toward one-shots or drop-in games. I may have 1-2 other people who are also interested, so I’d like to potentially build a group together rather than joining an established campaign. I’m also not looking to DM myself, so hopefully we can find someone who’d enjoy running a beginner-friendly campaign for us. I’d be totally open to a new DM who wants to learn alongside us too.

I’m particularly interested in 5e and Forgotten Realms (perhaps basic, I know), and I’d be happy to start with a pre-written adventure rather than expecting someone to create a campaign from scratch. Something like Lost Mine of Phandelver, Dragon of Icespire Peak, or Waterdeep: Dragon Heist could be a fun place to start.

Finally, we can make sure we actually click as a group before committing to a long campaign. We could meet up for coffee/drinks/food, play a board game, or just hang out and chat. We can also plan a Session 0 where we talk about expectations, characters, campaign style, scheduling, etc. before officially starting.

About me: early 30s guy, married with two cats. I’m generally a homebody who enjoys reading and video games, but I also love getting outside to rock climb, snowboard, play golf, bike around, etc. I’m flexible on where to meet in Portland but would prefer weekday evenings. Overall, I’m mostly looking for people who are enthusiastic, friendly, and excited to learn together!

If you’re interested feel free to comment or DM me. Thanks!

I'm out in the East Portland with a few years of experience in primarily 5e Dnd and curious About Pathfinder. I miss playing after so many years and eventually want to host my own Group when I have more confidence; just let me know what else I might need if you'd like me to join your group!

So it’s a new system of which I wrote all the rules myself. It’s like an urban science fantasy games where the idea is that you start out as a regular person who gradually acquired and improved abilities over time. This campaign is going to be like a street level superhero-in-training campaign, and I’m going to run it bi-weekly on Tuesday afternoons at Glimpses of Wonder and Warfare in Sherwood

If you’re interested in playing this, please DM me here on Reddit

not sure if this is the best place to post this but seeing if anyone plays in Portland. I play every now and then with friends and mostly just for fun but looking for a community!

Hey what’s good.
I’m looking for a group that’s starting a campaign. Looking for a beginner/intermediate group. I’ve only ever been a PC once. My friend group wanted to play and I was the only one up for the GM task and have run a couple amateur campaigns since. Was pretty low key on rules and just focused on fun and playing over being super strict. Added a lot of comedy and pop culture into my campaigns.
Looking to play maybe 1-2 times a month. Nothing super serious.
Down for playing at one of the local shops or if someone is hosting. I live in SE by Mall 205.
Super into painting minis/terrain and have made some of my own stuff as well.
I’m 34 He/him and super easy going.
Would definitely be down to meet up before hand for character building and/or to make sure the group feels right.
Let me know!

Hello nerds, I'm excited to get my favorite hobby going again!

Looking for 3-6 cool people to play face-to-face in Lake Oswego (near I5 Lower Boonsferry exit 290) twice a month. I'm happy to GM.

You:

- are cool 😎

- can drive or have reliable transportation (sorry, public transport isn't easily available in my area.)

- may or may not have any experience. That's okay, we are happy to teach you!

- are willing to make this recurring meetup a priority over other casual events and non-emergency obligations

- can bring your own dice and sometimes snacks

- are open and welcoming to all people

I, AlternativeMinute:

- have lots of rulebooks and maps

- have a good place for hosting, nice big table, parking, all that.

- can provide tea and sometimes snacks

- have a poodle

- am open and welcoming to all people

- have over ten years of experience both playing and running a variety of tabletop role playing games

We:

- are gonna have a great time!

DM for time and location, and any questions you have. Thanks for reading.

Howdy everyone!

Have you always wanted to play D&D but didn't know anyone who could/would teach you or struggled to find a group for beginners? This is your chance to learn the fundamentals of D&D (and Role Playing Games in general). After the event is over you'll learn:

-"What is Session 0?"
-The basic materials you need to play

-How the character sheet
-How the Game flows
-How the Player/DM exchange works
-How to Level up a character.

There will be another follow up meetup within two weeks where we can take everything we went over into a quick one shot to see it in action.

You are only required to bring yourself, your imagination, and a willingness to learn.

This is part of a 100% free series of meetups I'll be running to teach people all of the games I enjoy playing.

This meetup with be on August 25th from 6pm to 8pm at Dice Age Games (in the private room).
Table space is limited (I believe 8 including myself) so please shoot me a private message if you intend to be there. If slots completely fill I'll keep anyone else on a waiting list for the next Learn to Play meetup.

Now, who am I?

My name is Josh (37m, He/Him) and I love sitting in the GM seat and bringing new people into all of the games I love to play. I'm very much a go with the flow, evolve the story with the players DM and live by the motto "You can't break 'my game' because it's our game." I've been running games for almost as long as I've been playing, having started with D&D 3.5 and Spycraft back in 2003 and have learned and ran many different systems since. My wife and I moved here from the east coast a little over a year ago and everywhere we've moved for work I've found groups of new people with no-one else to teach them. I run for all experience levels but more often than not form groups around entirely new, or recently new players who struggle to find a game. I always prefer to run custom campaign settings that I can grow and change around the choices made by the players.

My tables are always LGBTQ+ friendly and I do not tolerate any real world hateful ideologies of any kind at my tables. I am as much into the Role Play aspect as I am Combat so silly voices and the like are always encouraged during play but never required.

Hey locals, Chapter here. I had a lot of great responses last time but alas, only a couple players have had their schedule be able to commit to a steady biweekly game.

TL;DR Experienced DM wants to run rotating non-D&D systems for clever, mindful folx of any TTRPG experience biweekly at his home in East PDX. The current system is Phoenix: Dawn Command.

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BACKGROUND

- I turn 41 this month, and have been a GM for 25 years-ish.

- I'm married to an enby partner who will be playing as well. We've been together 11 years.

- I'm a former trivia writer for shows like Jeopardy!, 1 vs 100, Geeks Who Drink, etc.

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EXPERIENCE

Some systems I've ran campaigns for:

- Every edition of D&D (one campaign was a five year weekly game)

- RIFTs and other Palladium titles (Nightbane, Ninjas and Superspies, Heroes Unlimited)

- Mechwarrior, Battletech

- Call of Cthulhu

- Pathfinder

- Degenesis

- Star Wars d6, d20, and EoE

- Kult

- His Majesty The Worm

- Nova

- Slayers

I have ran lots of smaller sessions in everything from TOON to Mutants and Masterminds.

GM STYLE

- I am not an antagonist Gygaxian DM, but my style rewards resource management, cleverness, and decisiveness in the face of challenging scenarios.

- I focus on strong world building and am open to collaborative storytelling in certain systems.

- As a married queer man, I'm not going to tolerate genuine hate in my home, but I am comfortable running games that feature bigotry, classism, prejudice, and other forms of injustice because those things can exist within the world as problems to be challenged, confronted, and overcome. What I won't do is rely on vulgar shock value as shorthand for "this person or group is bad," e.g. using SA, cartoonish slurs, or cruelty for cruelty's sake as substitutes for actually writing thoughtful evil or oppression. Regardless, all potentially sensitive content that require veils will be discussed.

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SCHEDULE & CURRENT GROUP

Our group meets biweekly on Tuesdays at my home in the Parkrose/Hazelwood neighborhood, with game going from 6pm - 9pm (feel free to show up earlier to chat).

Our group is LGBTQ friendly, as I'm a queer man in his 40s and my wife is queer enby early 40's as well. Our current players are wonderful people without a mean bone in their body and have a constant desire to find ways to be cooperative and supportive

PROPOSED SYSTEMS

I've ran D&D in my extensive homebrew world for the last decade and a half, having recently finished a 5E campaign that lasted 3.5 years.

I do not want to play D&D for a long time.

Instead, we plan to swap between various systems depending on the story or if we decide as a whole that we'd prefer to try something else.

Currently, our system of choice is Phoenix: Dawn Command, which is being ran in my homebrew world. I have written a player primer for my homebrew and a cheatsheet for P:DC. It is easy to play but requires a non-spectator type player to utilize your skills and traits to the fullest.

The next system we are giving hard thought to is Japan's Shin Megami Tensei or Salvage Union.

PLAYERS SOUGHT

I have been glad to help teach many players TTRPGs over the years, so experience with these systems are not required.

However, given the crunch and focus of some of the systems we are playing, a mind for tactics, politics, and problem solving is a plus- but not a "GM vs PCs" mindset.

I prefer for players to remain in character and present at the table, but I do not require nor seek performance based roleplay as popularized by streaming. You don't need to do voices, you just need to not be doomscrolling until it is your turn and make immersion breaking quips your go-to social contribution in character.

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Sorry for this downpour of text! Thank you for reading it or at least portions of it :)

If you're interested, please respond here and DM me your Discord name so we can set up a quick voice chat interview. Our next game is this Tuesday. Till then!

Hey all!

I am new to all tabletop.

I would love to learn how to play in a laid back group to play with and help teach me.

My goal is to learn how to DM and run my own games. I love telling stories and think I could put some cool games together.

I'm 37 and pretty laid back. I am in the Multnomah Village are.

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hello i (34F)in the Vancouver area. i had been looking foe a group to join for some time. if anyone is intested in a vetren playing in rollplaying. i struggle a bit in the math and game macanic part due to ASD (Austism sprection distorder) And delexica.( as you can tell by the spelling). if anyone intested please let me know.

Our Thursday night group is looking for 1 or 2 more players to join us.

We’re currently playing Daggerheart, but we want to run smaller arcs rather than a long single campaign. We are also interested in other systems as well (The quiet year, Draw steel, paranoia ,eat the Reich, Star Trek adventures, Cosmere, etc). We also rotate GMing duties so no one gets burnt out and everyone gets a chance to play. We have 3 potential GM's currently and no pressure if you can't/don't want to GM at all.

We plan on playing every Thursday evening from 6pm to 10pm rain or shine.

We are a chill, narrative-focused table supporting each others fun character/story ideas. If you're interested, send me a DM with a quick intro and what kind of games you like.

I've been playing D&D for a few years and am super excited about trying out Daggerheart. I have my own core rule book and Hope and Fear expansion. I've never played but I'd really love to dip my toes in and give it a try! I'm a 37 year old dad and a fantasy and sci-fi nerd.I like to think I'm creative, encouraging, and a good team member. If anyone is in the Beaverton area and needing/wanting another player, I'd love a chat to see if you think I'd be a good for for your group!

Hello! I moved to the Beaverton/Tigard area late last year from TX, and I miss playing D&D in person so much! I've played through three campaigns (Lost Mines, Curse of Strahd, and a shorter two session one for fun).

I'm a 32M, love all things dorky and fantasy, big reader, writing my own fantasy novel, LGBTQ friendly, liberal, down to earth and pretty chill. If you have a group that would like another player please leave a comment/send me a message! I'm open to any games in the PDX and surrounding areas!!

hellooooo! i (28F) am searching for a beginner DND group or people open to beginners with my best friend (also 28F) and i!! we have some experience with DND but not a bunch but we would love to learn more, please let us know if you have any recommendations for groups or just tips for beginners in general!

Would anyone like to do a TTRPG(TableTop RolePlaying Game) that is made to play like a Scooby do episode? It is a separate system from DnD with its own rules. For those that haven’t played DnD you make characters not unlike the ones from the show. Then the game master will describe the scene, you then have control of your own character and what they do. Some situations will require you to role to determine if something is successful. For this game it might be observation, you would roll and have a score to beat. If you succeed I would tell you what’s in the room and mention the rug seems to have an odd indent on it. Checking the rug you find there is a trap door to some room below.

For now the game will done in one sitting rather than an arc over multiple games taking place over multiple days in real life. I am not sure how long it will take but dnd runs for 3-4 hours so I will go with that as a base line. Dnd however also has slow combat where this does not so I expect it to go a bit quicker at the least in pace if not in overall time as it focuses solely on ability checks and roleplay.

I want some time to prep this so I was thinking of putting the day to be Aug 22nd, a Saturday and a couple weeks away. As for time I will say noon up to 4pm but I can adjust the time earlier or later if needed. Plus we can cut it short or you can leave early if needed, I think we can wing the character pretty easily in this system if needed.

This would take place at my house unless people would prefer a neutral location. I know of at least one place down town that could work and I am sure we can find others. I live between Down town Portland and Tigard.

I am M28, my wife will join and she is F24.

Hi everyone, CasualTesting here. I'm a new GM looking for 3-4 players for a short campaign of the Star Wars RPG by Edge Studios, formerly Fantasy Flight. I'm putting out feelers to see who would be interested, and in what sort of game any players would be most interested in.

There are three rulebook variants of the Edge/FF Star Wars RPG: *Edge of the Empire*, *Age of Rebellion*, and *Force & Destiny*, with each focusing on a different aspect of the Star Wars universe.

*Edge of the Empire* is focused on the Rim, where outlaws of various kinds congregate. Think smugglers, crime bosses, or bounty hunters. Your Han Solo and Boba Fett types.

*Age of Rebellion* is more military focused, doing strike raids and sabotage against the Empire as a rebel. Sort of closer to Andor/Rogue One in feel.

*Force & Destiny*, which is all about non-Jedi force users discovering their place in the galaxy, figuring out their powers, all the while dodging Inquisitors out to capture and kill them. Exploring the mystic side of Star Wars a bit more.

Right now I'm leaning to Edge of the Empire or Force & Destiny, but I could be convinced to run Age of Rebellion. There's also the option to run the beginner boxes for each variant to see which would spark the player's interest most.

I’m looking to get an in person D&D / Rolemaster tabletop campaign up and running again. If this sounds like something you would enjoy, I”d be happy to hear from you