worst part is i’d absolutely be the DM. having read a little of the book i feel like i could just learn whatever role i want to take pretty easily (lets go decker), but keeping everything in my head at once as a dm? a lot less simple

God i wanna get into shadowrun, but I don’t want to learn shadowrun

Like, 30 seconds? Throw a dhohanoid into a big cave with a barrier that causes fear. Have a group of shovelheads encroach on the party’s territory.

That’s an issue inherent to the d20 system, although 5e is way worse about it. WoD and CoD have way better systems for this, even though they aren’t about combat.

Pffft, malkavians say hi.

Hitting the guy with three layers of holy protection, curses, and no spell failure chance seems like a bad idea

Really shoulda seen that one coming. What’s next? Making deals with dragons?

And then there are the arcanists, born into power and learning more.

the ascended mage that realizes reincarnation is a thing and the current world is fundamentally evil. When death is only an illusion then it becomes a very small price to pay for even banal ends, much less glorious ones.

You mean like when someone brings up they can’t make a full character in dnd on a forum not dedicated to dnd? Yeah, I’d say this was the time and place for my comment.

I actually prefer world, like, by a massive margin, but Chronicles is by far the best game to recommend newbies imo (that I’ve had extensive time with).

I’m just gone give you a quick run down of the simplest ttrpg i play; Chronicles of darkness.

Every single roll uses the same type of dice and the numbers you need to hit are almost universally the same. Every skill, ability, power, or what-have-you uses the same simple system (with only two ways to resist/contest roles). All characters (including NPCs and monsters) are created in roughly the same way with roughly the same rules (with certain stuff added on depending on what you’re making). The book has an entire section on homebrew, with guidelines and examples. Every book has advice on playing ttrpgs broadly (like setting up what’s off limits from the start) and specifically Chronicles (like offering sources of inspiration). Speaking of books, there are plenty of them but you only need a single book to play a full game. The game also uses a major cheat code for the setting; it’s set in the modern world, so new players have an easy time understanding what’s going on.

I say all of that to say 5e is all together bad for new players. It’s price gouging, it’s convoluted, and isn’t actively friendly to new players like other systems.

And that’s a major issue with 5e too? 5e is very clearly designed to do one singular thing; dungeon crawl, and I’d argue it doesn’t do it that well either. There are plenty of actual generic ttrpgs out there you can use, like GURPS (literally Generic Universal RolePlay System) or even besm if that’s your thing.

Now that’s straight up not true. 5e is a lot of things (unfinished, unclear, underhanded) but it isn’t simple. And thanks to it’s inconsistency it’s a nightmare to make good, reliable content for. There are many, many, many better systems to start a new player on and it’s quite possibly one of if the worst to start a DM on.

Just… Play a better game, something that actually lets you make a character.

What threat of homelessness? Razira is a paladin, she can, and is expected to, live out of temples and strongholds of her order. Besides there are much bigger power dynamics of you really care about that sorta thing. Konsi literally talks to razira’s god, and they both know it.

Bounded accuracy is probably the single worst design I’ve ever heard about in ttrpgs, and I’ve looked at some of the math you gotta do in fatal. The things actually designed for it make you feel pathetic, the things that aren’t make the game boring.

Till some three night old welp busts in like cain himself

Wait what happened to all the comments? Even my benign comment about cod being a better system for basic ammo is gone.

The wizard casts gun