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Im new to role playing games.Where should i start? [duplicate]
I've played Skyrim but I really want to know where to start for dungeons and dragons.
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What is your favorite RPG for younger people? [closed]
I have played a lot of Dungeons and Dragons with my younger siblings, but I have found that they can lose interest quickly with all of the complicated rules and slow combat. They want more of the ...
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How to describe & roleplay past torture, prejudice and gender discrimination without upsetting fellow players too much?
In the next adventure I'm going to play a drow male, who was casually bullied, whipped etc. by females of the drow society. That's how that society works, after all. It's in the books. He now has a ...
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1st Edition Lawful Good woes
I have a few questions I’m hoping more experienced players can help me with. I’ve been playing in a 1st edition D&D game for about 1.5 years now as a lawful good human Paladin. I’m not super ...
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I'm playing a Marilith demon who is leader of a evil campaign. After hitting very high levels, how should I go about keeping the party together? [closed]
During a while of playing a 2e session with multiple 3.5e conversions, I have recently (In the past 7 years) experimenting with playing Evil campaigns and playing Monster characters such as Mind ...
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What events, tests, and troubles could a party trying to establish a nation expect to face [closed]
My players have decided to establish a new nation which consists of Phandalin, Triboar, Red Larch, and all lands in between (per their own highly unofficial declaration). I'm trying to come up with ...
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Handling a player (unintentionally) stealing the spotlight
Quite recently, I replaced a friend as DM for a D&D game.
During that game, I came across something I did not expect: One of the players was just too good.
When I am saying "too good" I am not ...
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As DM, how do I deal with PCs that expect everything in the game to be relevant to the story?
I've started DMing a new group. We've only had two short, 2hour sessions, and most players are new to DnD. I've been a DM before (though just a dozen or so sessions) but in those cases it was with a ...
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What are strategies to roleplay through a saving throw my GM must make? [closed]
As I try really hard to always be improving my in-game persona through better roleplaying, one area I find difficult is when my abilities cause the GM to roll a saving throw.
Are there any strategies ...
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What are other sources with information about Lathander?
Backstory
I'm playing a Bard in my current campaign of D&D 5e and I'm just taking a level in cleric with Lathander as my god (after being inspired/trained by a Paladin of that same deity). ...
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Steal the Gold: Wait, does it even exist, what is it? [closed]
Having more gold in Dungeons and Dragons allows a player to add things to their character sheet, and effects the actions they can take in a combat round.
But what is gold in terms of game mechanics ...
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How has the focus on roleplaying versus combat in D&D changed in the years since its inception? [closed]
There was recently a post bemoaning the lack of "real roleplaying" in the current RPG community (specifically in the D&D Adventurers League), suggesting that, since some point in its history, more ...
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Help me re-find this role-playing story
I want to find this story again to inspire my fellow newer players to break the mold of role-playing.
I remember reading an incredibly inspiring [D&D probably] story about a player who was role-...
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Where can I find (in-universe) holy texts to quote?
My friends and I are starting a 5e campaign, and I have a Dragonborn Paladin of Bahamut nearly ready to go. As I was working through, the personality trait "I quote (or misquote) sacred texts and ...
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What to model the behavior of D&D's chaotic evil Orcs on? [closed]
Instinctively, I find myself modeling a tribe of Dungeons & Dragons Orcs as similar to Klingons from Star Trek, or Vikings, or even a gang of bikers or skinheads.
But none of these models truly ...
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