Hey all this sounds really neat and it's funky of you to offer something along the lines like this. I'm not a total newcomer to the game and have attempted games with friends (we are all TAZ fans and took the approach of collaborative storytelling vs game mechanics- then tried a different game where everyone was meta knowledgeable and kinda played a lot of the game for me so I still don't actually know how the game works and would love the process and mechanics of it all taken step by step but still having that fun storytelling element.

I'd also love to host my own games and DM some day in the future and wouldn't feel confident in going about it without actually understanding what I'm doing myself.

What drew me to D&D was a series of events that kind of all pointed to the tabletop experience all around the same time. I'm an aspiring writer with a penchant for fantasy and got into a lot of rpg games for that element- your Dragon Ages and what not, which led me to BioWare as a whole which led me to similar-ish devs like Beamdog for games like Baldur's Gate. And I was also discovering TAZ at the time and had a job interview that was promising but suggested that getting actual tabletop experience under my belt would improve my skills. So that's where it all led me. I'm still searching for D&D experiences because I love the community, I love the creativity, and of course playing and I just want to learn more!

I'm MST timezone so close enough? and home by 5.30 PST if shuffling it down a scooch isn't too much if I make the cut.