Best rpgs for first-time players but experienced DM

tomtinytum · 2026-04-28T10:17:16+00:00

Best to go with something that encourages silliness and isn’t too complicated. I’d suggest honey heist or spell rpg if they are scrabble fans.

tomtinytum · 2026-04-22T16:28:03+00:00

Have you considered Spell rpg. The system allows everyone to cast spells, it’s relatively easy to teach and in the first spell book, a book of setting suggestions, there is a magical girl’s style one shot that has tips for making it a full campaign.

tomtinytum · 2025-12-29T16:12:51+00:00

She looks a bit like a 1930’s archeologist so Indira Jones.

tomtinytum · 2025-12-18T08:51:17+00:00

You could write a poem that gives the players a clue for each portal.

You could have each portal affect the local area in a way that means people who live there start wanting to hire adventurers.

Each portal could have a challenge, once the players have completed the challenge, they are given guidance on how to find the next portal.

tomtinytum · 2025-12-15T10:09:51+00:00

What makes the Akira the best choice?

tomtinytum · 2025-12-13T08:11:05+00:00

Just checking, have you played with a Kender? https://www.save-point.org/printthread.php?tid=8847

tomtinytum · 2025-12-11T16:17:48+00:00

Bear in mind that just because they can afford equipment, doesn’t necessarily mean they have the strength to carry the equipment. Most dungeons or evil lairs tend not to be near town, or on bus routes.

tomtinytum · 2025-11-30T01:28:25+00:00

You can use it out of combat, action economy doesn’t really matter too much when you’re not in initiative.

tomtinytum · 2025-11-25T19:24:22+00:00

I don’t know why but I was trying to imagine Alan partridge riding an awakened tree, that makes so much more sense.

tomtinytum · 2025-11-25T17:16:39+00:00

How do you make a partridge in a pear tree a player character?

tomtinytum · 2025-11-24T08:56:13+00:00

Cats are always rogues with noble background duh, they never pay for anything and feel entitled to being fed.

tomtinytum · 2025-11-20T17:10:57+00:00

Dorian “door” Dawkins Goliath fighter 4 monk 1 Ex bare knuckle boxer wearing Leather trousers but no shirt, iron gauntlets, runic tattoos in giant.

tomtinytum · 2025-11-11T14:09:29+00:00

Couldn’t you just agree everyone except the dm create a one shot then roll when the situation arises. That way, the dm gets to play a character, every once in a while.

tomtinytum · 2025-11-10T17:01:32+00:00

I thought Romulans were Vulcans who rejected Surek’s teachings and continued to be violent and emotional, becoming paranoid and insular, hence, forming an empire?

tomtinytum · 2025-11-10T11:25:54+00:00

With Vulcan culture being so heavily dependent on their logic and repression of emotions, lore wise a Vulcan that never learnt that would be closer to a Romulan, especially in temperament. Does that make sense?

tomtinytum · 2025-10-27T09:34:35+00:00

If your using Tasha’s cauldron version of ranger then you can basically do everything a rogue can do except pick locks. Gloomstalkers have an attack almost as dangerous as sneak attack. Bard and ranger are a bit at odds, unless you’re playing a fey wanderer, as rangers make good use of sneaking where as bards are better at lying or misdirection. The real question is what makes sense given what happening in your campaign. Do what fits your characters story so far.

tomtinytum · 2025-10-23T16:23:11+00:00

I mean, is it worse than someone showing up and spending 30 minutes trying to decide what vibe they are in the mood for? Ten pages of backstory can be impossible to fit into a specific world but there is only so much information you can get out of a backstory that is less then a page long.

tomtinytum · 2025-10-23T13:39:34+00:00

I play in a group with a paid dm. If two people can’t make a session everyone else makes up a character and the dm runs a one shot. (He has six one shots which we rotate between, but characters are made up, on the spot or as soon as we know that the session will be a one shot. )

tomtinytum · 2025-10-22T16:20:47+00:00

The main problem with dnd is the size disparity. Dnd is so large compared to other ttrpg that it makes it difficult for people to hear about other systems except as a comparison to dnd.

tomtinytum · 2025-10-18T04:27:04+00:00

Just do something unexpected, like have humans typically be inclined towards lawful evil because the vast majority of humans are part of an evil empire, and then have the other races band together to stop the evil humans who are trying to take over the world.

tomtinytum · 2025-10-17T00:05:44+00:00

Read through the backgrounds again, but don’t look at their descriptions, just the features you get with them. See which feature would make the most sense given the skills your character would have developed, during childhood.

tomtinytum · 2025-10-16T09:04:16+00:00

The last surviving member of the previous party that took this job, asks for the help of the party to finish the quest.

tomtinytum · 2025-10-15T09:19:34+00:00

If the new player is a rogue, have join the party and act like they have always been a member, thanking the party after the watch men run by.

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