Dungeons & Dragons 5e 101- Learn to Play for All Skill Levels!
An accessible and fun crash course for any experience level! Make a character, learn the basics, and prepare to jump into any 5e game.
$15.00
/ Session
Details
Once / Monday - 10:00 PM UTC
Jan 26
Session Duration / 3–4 hours
0 / 5 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
---SUMMARY--- Want to learn how to play Dungeons and Dragons but don't know where to start? Dungeon Master Kat, who has nearly 4 years of professional experience teaching players how to get started in D&D, is here to help! They'll walk you through everything you need to know to prepare you for beginning your own home games or joining any of the incredible DMs here on startplaying. ---WHAT TO EXPECT--- Together, we'll make a character from the ground up. No pre-generated characters or dropping in with no explanation- You'll learn important concepts and terminology so you're prepared not only to play, but to make your own characters after the session! Then, you'll learn everything you need to know to actually play, including social encounters, mechanics, and combat. Finally, you'll play through a short adventure where you'll get to put everything you've learned into practice. You'll also be provided with handy cheat-sheets and supplements to help you better understand complicated mechanics like spell casting and combat. ---WHY LEARN WITH ME?--- This course has been run dozens of times for players of all experience levels (including no experience at all) and has received universally positive feedback. Plus, everything in the course was human-made with a no AI generated content guarantee!
Game style
Rules as Written (RaW)
Rule of Cool (RoC)
Roleplay Lite
Organized Play
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(19)
Less than a year on StartPlaying
3 games hosted
Highly rated for: Inclusive, Creativity, Teacher
About me
Hi I'm Kat! I've been playing TTRPGs (D&D mostly) for 15~ish years. I've also been professionally teaching people how to play D&D 5e for about 4 years now, and I've gotten a lot of good feedback! I'm all about helping new players get into the game since I understand it can be hard to jump in on your own, even with all of the resources out there. Aside from DnD, I'm a big fan of horror stuff (I love a good game of Dread) and an avid video gamer.
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Creating your character
You won't need to make a character ahead of time as we'll start the session with a walk-through of character creation. We'll be going for a less-than-balanced approach to stat generation (rolling for stats) and I encourage you to make choices to make a character that would be fun to play. However, if you're interested in min-maxing, I'm happy to give advice for that as well. For the sake of simplicity, I've provided resources that only include content from the base Players Handbook. If you have some amount of experience and wish to use content from other sources, I'm happy to work with you, but I have limited access to other books that I would be able to share with you digitally.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
Please be ready to fill out your character sheet before we begin (printing it out if needed or getting the .pdf ready to be filled out with your program of choice). Also, take some time to look at the provided Class and Race Cheat Sheets before we begin and get an idea of what you might like to play. You don't have to have anything solid, but coming with a general idea will make things go by quicker. Having a mic will make things much easier in terms of communication, though if you aren't comfortable using voice chat, we can make do with text communication. As the course is held over discord, you will need to have a discord account.
What Kat brings to the table
You'll have access to an array of supplemental materials, cheat-sheets, and the Players Handbook for 5e. I've tried to design everything in this course to be as accessible and beginner-friendly as possible. Also, there will be no pressure to jump right into roleplaying, if you're not comfortable with it.
Homebrew rules
While we won't be using any homebrew rules, I'll go over some common ones you might find at other tables.
Equipment needed to play
Microphone
Internet
Platforms used
Safety
How Kat creates a safe table
While much of the session with be taken up with character creation, once we get into roleplay and combat, I always have an open door policy at my table. I also take the use of safety tools very seriously, and will take some time to go over what they are and their use as a part of the course.
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