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[deathpunch578]

so I'm going to be DMing for a group of friends that have never played D&D before, I can't lend them my copy of the player's hand book since they live in different states. any tips?

[Mephisto]

If their local libraries are nice, have them take a look. Mine has some D&D books.

Wow, just double-checked. Mine has books stretching all the way back to AD&D.

[GiglameshDespair]

so I'm going to be DMing for a group of friends that have never played D&D before, I can't lend them my copy of the player's hand book since they live in different states. any tips?

Tell them to google '[edition number] srd'

[Mephisto]

My last bookcase self-destructed. It probably committed seppuku.

After a few months of just having my books covering the floor of my bedroom, I did this.

[Jimmy]

Nice collection! Mine runs more towards minis, which I keep in a big plastic tub for easy transport. I typically keep PDF files of key books and use a tablet or laptop to access them at games.

[Mephisto]

I don't game enough to collect minis. I mostly just collect books and imagine playing, occasionally doing a bit of solo gaming with a GM emulator.

Now that I'm in a 5e game, however, I'm doing a bit more mini collecting. My current obsession is finding something that looks vaguely like a kobold bard.

[Kadzar]

I personally like to use Legos for minis, but I will admit it gets hard to get ones that fit more nonstandard races like kobolds and dragonborn.

[Kagus]

I personally like to use Legos for minis, but I will admit it gets hard to get ones that fit more nonstandard races like kobolds and dragonborn.

If a dude can recreate all the stories of the Bible in LEGO, I'm pretty sure you can finagle some kobolds.

[Kadzar]

I personally like to use Legos for minis, but I will admit it gets hard to get ones that fit more nonstandard races like kobolds and dragonborn.

If a dude can recreate all the stories of the Bible in LEGO, I'm pretty sure you can finagle some kobolds.

The Bible surprisingly had a lot more humans than it had kobolds.

[Egan_BW]

Which is why it is obviously an inferior source book to DnD.

[Kagus]

I personally like to use Legos for minis, but I will admit it gets hard to get ones that fit more nonstandard races like kobolds and dragonborn.

If a dude can recreate all the stories of the Bible in LEGO, I'm pretty sure you can finagle some kobolds.

The Bible surprisingly had a lot more humans than it had kobolds.

Also a beast with seven heads and ten horns, angels, Satan, Job, locusts with crowns, and whatever Goliath's kind are to be called.

Really though, I'm just impressed with how the guy did toddlers and babies.

Which is why it is obviously an inferior source book to DnD.

Yeah, really. Talk about RAW vs. RAI...

[Jimmy]

And credit where credit's due, a fair few cleric spells got cribbed from that sourcebook. Raise Dead, Remove Blindness/Deafness, Cure Disease, Water Walk...

I picked up a ton of my plastic minis from eBay, just buying up bulk grab-bags of other people's duplicates. I mostly use them these days for player character tokens if my players don't have their own minis to use. For monsters, I highly recommend the Pathfinder series of cardboard printed minis that come with slotted bases. I have their first and second bestiary, their NPC and monster codex, and the summon monster series of minis, plus the beginner box too. Between all this I can usually find any monster or enemy NPC that's close enough to the encounter to give the players a visual representation of what they're fighting.

Then again, I pretty much exclusively play in meatspace groups rather than online, which I'm told is fairly popular.

[wierd]

I am torn.. I live so far out in the boonies, in hickville. I would love to play in meatspace, but know nobody in meatspace who plays.

The best I could do would be to drive 40+minutes to the major town, and hit up one of the game stores; but that is how you get the "cliche" players.

RE: Cardboard Minis

This gives me an idea.  You can purchase card stock in bulk from walmart, and most people have printers.  I bet I could make a simple blank "All-Paper" version of those slotted mini cards, for DIY "On the cheap" specials.

Anyone up for me to attempt it? (I have fancy CAD software for doing sheetmetal. Paper is just sheet metal without the metal.)

[Harry Baldman]

I am torn.. I live so far out in the boonies, in hickville. I would love to play in meatspace, but know nobody in meatspace who plays.

The best I could do would be to drive 40+minutes to the major town, and hit up one of the game stores; but that is how you get the "cliche" players.

The best way to get non-cliche players for D&D is to get people who don't normally play D&D, generally speaking. If you know cool people who like you, no harm in asking them if they'd be into a game, right?

[Kagus]

Anyone here who's watched Stranger Things? Anyone else who got a bit exasperated with the DnD elements portrayed therein?

DM: "The party of level two heroes continues down the dungeon corridor... Suddenly, Demogorgon!"

Party: *Gasp!*

Lvl2 Wizard: "I cast fireball!"

DM: "Roll to succeed at casting a spell"

Lvl2 Wizard: *rolls dice off table*

DM: "I saw the score before the dice fell off; you have succeeded at casting fireball. Demogorgon is defeated, and you have saved your party"

Lvl2 Wizard: *resolute pride*