Congrats! Kids are fun...especially when they are somebody elses! :)

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I like 5th edition a lot. It is very easy to run and has some great time-saving and fun-making mechanics (Advantage/Disadvantage, Short/Long Rests, Inspiration, streamlined skill lists, ability to overcast low level spells to make them more powerful, etc.).

If I am being honest, it's probably my favorite edition of D&D. This assessment does not take away from my fondness of other editions, but I think 5th edition did a great job of taking all the fun/accessible elements from each edition and putting it into one game.

Yeah, he's great! :)

I know what you mean about 5th edition. I began reading and buying (A)D&D in the mid 90s so even though I didn't get to play regularly until college and 3.X edition era I always think of 2nd edition as my starting edition. 5th has a lot of what I love most about that period - the sheer flavour - wrapped up in a simpler and elegant system. It might be my favourite too!

My two nieces, who never showed interest in dnd, started playing 5ed when it came out.  So I had to buy the basic books just so I could relate to what they were talking about.  What I read I really liked but I think I should find a 5ed game here to play, its really the only way to learn.

Why not just ask to play with your nieces? You should get the hang of it very quick, after a session or two. It's pretty straight-forward.

I'd love to and maybe we can run a short game when together at the beach or so, but both are now in different colleges and far from their uncle!!

In reply to Galadel (msg # 50):

Hmm. Any of you have interest in a 5th edition D&D one-shot adventure, to give Galadel a taste for the system?

I'm interested!

It's funny -- I got a message from my own niece (at college) a few weeks back telling me she had just started playing D&D and asking me to run a one-shot for her group via Skype. I'm going to run a 5E version of the Forsaken Temple of the Serpent King (with my own alterations).

Also interested!

Certainly, I'm interested!

Cool. I did a double-take when I saw that adventure name, Forsaken Temple of the Serpent King, and I was like, oh cool, I know that module. Then tried to remember where I knew it from...and then it dawned on me...this game!

Can't go wrong with creepy snake-worshippers in diaphanous robes, doing evil stuff inside a sunken ziggurat in a marsh. That was a fun adventure...especially pissing off Ben with Lord Myron being involved! LOL

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At any rate, good to know you're interested. Time to start thinking....

Duly noted...

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Awesome! +3

Not sure how many players you want for a one off, but I added two players to fill the power void left by losing Eagle and Ben, they've been good additions.

Have any of you played in D&Ds Adventurers League?

I am kind of thinking about running an Adventurers League-style game, as they have quite a few excellent short adventures that are built to be run as either five 1-hr mini-adventures or single 2-hr adventures, in a traditional tabletop setting that would probably translate really well to PbP.

Specifically, I am looking at the Season 5 (Storm King's Thunder) adventures, for those who are familiar. Those were my first exposure to 5th edition and I thought they did a really good job of teaching the game.

Thoughts?

I know none of those

I haven't participated in AL and I'm unfamiliar with the adventures, but, from what I know about the format, I agree that it would translate well to RPoL.

I've been playing 5e on RPoL for about one year -- just made level 3!! -- and I ran a few sessions for my son and some friends. I'm pretty well versed in the rules, but not very experienced. I'll trust your judgment for a suitable starting point for all of us.

I'd be in the same boat with no real experience with AL, but happy to try. :)

I know nothing of any of these things . . . but my son may have a 5E book he's not using.

In reply to Inas Eoinsson (msg # 63):

You wouldn't need a PHB. If you want to give 5e a whirl, you could use the free Basic D&D rules, which allow you to make a character using the following race/class combinations: human, dwarf, elf, halfling, fighter, cleric, wizard, and rogue.

PHB gives you access to other character race and class options.

In reply to DM Storm (msg # 64):

I'm game then . . . no pun intended.

Happy New Year Stormhavians! May your goblets ever be filled with the finest of mulled wine from the cellars of the High Sultan of the Empire of the Shifting Sands himself and your hearth stoked with sweetneedle pine from the primordial forests of the Northern Kingdoms!

Shane

*Raises a goblet in toast*

A wish returned in full my friend. Happy New Year! :-)

Ross

Do you have anything harder? I'm not sure Rath can choke down any more mulled wine.

Very well, Gwinkel Woodknuckles' Triple-Barrel, Special Reserve Gnomish Whiskey for you then!

Much better. Thanks!