Greetings /tg/. Some of my friends have been showing interest

>>54028837
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUk42GiU2guNzWBzxn7hs8MaV7ELLCP_

I've been binging his videos for the past few days, about halfway through. He offers some good advice, although I do disagree with him at times, mostly over styles of GMing. He also has some serious SJW leanings but it doesn't affect the videos and he mostly doesn't talk about it.

His advice is also applicable to more games than just D&D. There's not much D&D-specific advice he gives. I wish he'd talk about other games more (so far he's only brought up other tabletop games once), but I suppose that's inevitable when your audience comes from Critical Roll.

What sort of game do you/your players want to run? What got them interested?

>>54028974
I'm not really sure where the idea of playing came from, but I'd imagine they'd want a more light-hearted game. I'm gonna start watching these now, thank you so much!

>>54029063
If they're jokey and light-hearted about it, put them in a pretty simple fight that might challenge them, give them a simple puzzle, and some good loot after a trap.
This applies to most games and systems, whether the trap starts the fight or the loot is a plot hook, the formula stays pretty much the same.

>>54029063
No problem. He gives this advice too, but I just want to emphasize it:

Be sure to ask your prospective players about why and what they want to play.

Be sure that you work the game into your schedule as a weekly thing, instead of working with schedules every week to find a day to play on.

Everybody's new, so they probably have no experience beyond watching a gaming podcast or a D&D episode on TV. That takes off a lot of pressure since your first attempt is going to be fun just because it's new and exciting.

Even though they're your friends, you may have people with very different styles of play, and the game doesn't work out because of it; don't feel bad, it really isn't anyone's fault. You either need to get lucky or really try to get a gaming group that can play together.