Recently, I've noticed a lot of new players posting in the forums asking for advice on what to do, and wondering if people can share tips.
I noticed that each time, people had to explain to the player and had no threads to refer them to, so heres a thread now!
People, please share tips and advice on how to help new D&D players, and new D&D players, if you have any questions, I hope people will respond if you post them here.
I am no moderator or staff, but I hope this thread will help:)
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Ever wanted to talk about your parties' worst mistakes? Do so HERE. What's your favorite class, why? Share & explainHERE.
This has been tried more than once, but given how it dilutes the ability to find and ask a specific topic for new players, the preference is for people to ask their own questions that concern them at the time in their own threads (however repeatedly the topic appears).
A better on-site search engine would be nice rather than going to Google or Bing and adding "site:dndbeyond.com" to the search (because surprisingly few people know that trick).
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For something like “why isn’t there the ability to buy a corporeal book and get it on Beyond” there is an established answer and any further discussion is going to be on the same topic, so it makes sense to have a master thread folks can be directed to.
For something like “can you help me be a better DM”, you just can’t do that. For starters, new players are almost certainly new to the forums, so they won’t really know if there’s a single thread or not, and they’ll post anyway. Then, while their initial responses might be generic, they’ll likely have follow-up questions which are likely specific to their own needs, desires, and party’s requirements.
If you confine all that to a single thread, you’ll have dozens of new players all trying to follow their own conversation and questions… while that is interspersed with dozens of other new players’ conversation. It would be a tangled web of quote blocks, questions, responses, and, often, different new DMs being given conflicting advice since their individual needs differ. It would be an impossible to follow mess, and thus would prove counterproductive.
Correct, please use existing threads. No need to create duplicates.
I would also suggest when creating a thread - actually provide content instead of a call to the community to provide it for you. This creates empty threads or "noise" with no topic or solution.
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Recently, I've noticed a lot of new players posting in the forums asking for advice on what to do, and wondering if people can share tips.
I noticed that each time, people had to explain to the player and had no threads to refer them to, so heres a thread now!
People, please share tips and advice on how to help new D&D players, and new D&D players, if you have any questions, I hope people will respond if you post them here.
I am no moderator or staff, but I hope this thread will help:)
BoringBard's long and tedious posts somehow manage to enrapture audiences. How? Because he used Charm Person, the #1 bard spell!
He/him pronouns. Call me Bard. PROUD NERD!
Ever wanted to talk about your parties' worst mistakes? Do so HERE. What's your favorite class, why? Share & explain
HERE.This has been tried more than once, but given how it dilutes the ability to find and ask a specific topic for new players, the preference is for people to ask their own questions that concern them at the time in their own threads (however repeatedly the topic appears).
A better on-site search engine would be nice rather than going to Google or Bing and adding "site:dndbeyond.com" to the search (because surprisingly few people know that trick).
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
For something like “why isn’t there the ability to buy a corporeal book and get it on Beyond” there is an established answer and any further discussion is going to be on the same topic, so it makes sense to have a master thread folks can be directed to.
For something like “can you help me be a better DM”, you just can’t do that. For starters, new players are almost certainly new to the forums, so they won’t really know if there’s a single thread or not, and they’ll post anyway. Then, while their initial responses might be generic, they’ll likely have follow-up questions which are likely specific to their own needs, desires, and party’s requirements.
If you confine all that to a single thread, you’ll have dozens of new players all trying to follow their own conversation and questions… while that is interspersed with dozens of other new players’ conversation. It would be a tangled web of quote blocks, questions, responses, and, often, different new DMs being given conflicting advice since their individual needs differ. It would be an impossible to follow mess, and thus would prove counterproductive.
Correct, please use existing threads. No need to create duplicates.
I would also suggest when creating a thread - actually provide content instead of a call to the community to provide it for you. This creates empty threads or "noise" with no topic or solution.