Learn To Play Dungeons & Dragons - Dragon Hunting
You wake up outside a mountain, with no memory of the night before. A dragon roars in the distance. What’s going on? Start your journey in D&D!
About the adventure
You have awaken with a horrible groggy feeling and with your head pounding. You have no clue how you made it to this camp. It is cold, and you have found yourself outside a mountain side. You look around and you see your traveling partner and a bunch of other people you may or may not know. That is when a loud roaring sound of a dragon comes from the mountains. Oh! What did you do last night and what have you gotten yourself into? Welcome to D&D, where you will tell a story of a group of adventurers who don't remember their night but suddenly find themselves at the base of the a mountain ready to face a dragon for the prospect of some gold. No experience required. We’ll guide you through everything. Just bring your wits, your imagination, and your dragon slaying sword. ──────────────────────── What previous adventurers have said: " Erick is really an animated storyteller with a lot of depth to his game. Our game was a whole lot more than just slaying monsters. " - Todd "DnD is a game I never thought I could grasp. Erick's creativity in every game was inspirational for my love of the game. DnD always felt foreign, over the last two years I have come to master the game with the help of Erick. " - Joe M "Erick was a great GM. I am a new player and had a lot of fun in Erick's game. Erick was well-organized, knowledgeable, and very patient with everyone when people had questions or technical difficulties." - Alex
Game style
Dungeon Crawl
Game themes
$15.00
/ Session
Details
Once / Thursday – 7:00 PM UTC
Jul 17
Session Duration / 2 hours
1 / 6 Seats Filled
GAME MASTER
Erick
he/him
5.0
(38)
Each player will be charged when a session starts.
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Meet the Game Master
5.0
(38)
5 years on StartPlaying
24 games hosted
Highly rated for: Teacher, Creativity, Sets the Mood
Average response time: 5 hours
Response rate: 100%
About me
My name is Erick. I have played Tabletop RPGS for over 25 years now. If you ever told me that I could get paid to play TTRPGs I would have thought you were joking. But here I am today. The CEO of StartPlaying asked me join StartPlaying during beta just before the pandemic. When the pandemic lifted I went back to running in-person games at game rooms where I live. I now back on StartPlaying to open up to online games again. I have run games for events, conventions and Adventure League helping people learn and understand TTRPGs for the first time. And for the advanced players, I have offered challenging and intriguing memorable stories. I have traveled the world as a travel photographer connecting with people and telling their stories. Now it is time to create our own stories together. Let us sit down with a group of friends, roll some dice and tell a story together.
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Proficiencies
Players say this GM is great at:
Teacher
Creativity
Sets the Mood
Macchiato Monkey
Played 2 sessions
Gm at the end of the session asking: mention one thing you think I could have done better. Me: Everything was great! Erick knows the rules and his adventures very well. His portrayal of NPC's is wonderful! He's very welcoming to players who are practicing their English linguistics skills. The design of his adventures and pregenerated characters help these kind of players to more easily portray their player character in a non native language.
Biqij
Played 2 sessions
Erick was really welcoming and patient. None of us had ever played D&D or used a VTT before and two of us had never played a VTT but he made it a friendly environment to figure stuff out and have fun. The game was awesome and I really loved his characters - the backstories definitely led to some further discussion among the three of us after the game. We had some technical issues on roll20 but Erick helped us reach a workaround so that we could keep playing. We talked to Erick about it on stream and we know he is already aware but in case it would be helpful to Start Playing in general - it would be really nice to have everything all in one place because it was tough to keep flicking between the chat and the character sheet and discord, especially when still getting used to where everything is.
Chip
Played 2 sessions
Erick did an amazing job of making us all feel welcome and integrated in the group. The story we played through had characters that were very well developed with solid back stories to hook us in with each other. He had a great amount of patience as we had many new players on the Foundry platform and he kept us all involved throughout the session. I had a great time and learned a lot from him. I'll be looking for his sessions in StartPlaying in the future.
Chazz
New review
Played 1 sessions
Wonderful storyteller, kept pacing up, played NPC's with sincerity, and unflappable as I had some technical difficulties at the top.
J
Played 1 sessions
Erick is great at teaching foundry vtt and is very knowledgeable on the rules of dnd. He sets the mood with flashy slides on pop-ups and the twist at the end is a nice story touch. If your looking to learn the vtt or 5e this is a great introduction.
Serafim Parente
Played 1 sessions
Was a great introduction to DND, Erick explain the base mechanics of the game well. Gave us a nice short quest to complete while introducing relevant mechanics throughout making it fun and educational. 100% Recommend.
Character creation
Creating your character
Characters are pre-made and carefully designed to work well with each other.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
NEEDED 🖥️ A computer or laptop with internet access 🖥️ 🌐 Chromium or Firefox Web Browser (Safari does not show animations) 🌐 🎙️ Working microphone and headphones 🎙️ 🎮 Discord account (Free) 🎮 🎲 Forge VTT account (Free) 🎲 RECOMMENDED 🎥 Webcam (this is optional but adds a lot to the immersion of roleplaying) 🎥
What Erick brings to the table
🗺️ Interactive Maps and visual aids 🗺️ 🎵 Curated musical playlist 🎵 📣 Character Voices 📣 👤 Pre-Generated Characters with suggested backstories 👤 ✅ Game rules and expectations as well as home-brew rules ✅
Equipment needed to play
Computer
Headphones
Internet
Microphone
Platforms used
Safety
How Erick creates a safe table
We will be also using a variation of the X, N, O card system as well as an open door system. At the end of the session will also be a way to talk about the session.
Content warnings
Safety tools used
Additional tables
2 available
Once / Thursday – 11:00 PM UTC
Aug 14
0 / 6 Seats Filled
Once / Thursday – 11:00 PM UTC
Aug 21
0 / 6 Seats Filled