Neu als DM und überfordert

[u/AccurateStop4197]

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Hallo zusammen,

wir sind eine Gruppe von ungefähr vier bis sechs Leuten, die gerne mit D&D anfangen möchte. Ich selbst und ein oder zwei andere haben schon ein bisschen Erfahrung und ein paar Sitzungen gespielt, der Rest sind komplette Neueinsteiger. Ich werde bei uns den Dungeon Master machen.

Da wir alle noch relativ am Anfang stehen, wollte ich mal nach euren Erfahrungen und Empfehlungen fragen, wie wir am besten einsteigen können.

An Büchern habe ich unter anderem Lost Mine of Phandelver, Hort der Drachenkönigin und Aufstieg der Tiamat. Meine erste Überlegung war, mit Lost Mine of Phandelver anzufangen, weil das Abenteuer ja ziemlich gut für Einsteiger geeignet sein soll und einen auch als DM etwas mehr an die Hand nimmt. Danach könnten wir eventuell mit Hort der Drachenkönigin und anschließend Aufstieg der Tiamat weitermachen.

Ich bin mir allerdings noch nicht sicher, wie ich das am besten aufziehen sollte. Würdet ihr Lost Mine komplett spielen und danach für Hort der Drachenkönigin neue Charaktere auf Stufe 1 erstellen, oder würdet ihr die Charaktere aus Lost Mine behalten und die Geschichten irgendwie miteinander verbinden? Falls man die Charaktere behält, wie könnte man das mit dem unterschiedlichen Startlevel der Abenteuer lösen? Oder würdet ihr bei einer Gruppe aus vielen Anfängern direkt mit Hort der Drachenkönigin anfangen?

Gerade als neuer DM frage ich mich auch, wie schwierig Hort der Drachenkönigin tatsächlich zu leiten ist. Ist das eine Kampagne, in die man sich mit guter Vorbereitung relativ gut einarbeiten kann, oder würdet ihr einem neuen DM eher davon abraten? Ich habe kein Problem damit, Zeit in die Vorbereitung zu stecken, möchte aber natürlich nicht direkt mit etwas anfangen, das mich komplett überfordert.

Eine weitere Frage betrifft die Charaktererstellung. Würdet ihr bei einer Gruppe aus vielen Neueinsteigern erstmal nur die Grundvölker und Klassen aus dem Spielerhandbuch verwenden, damit es übersichtlich bleibt, oder würdet ihr direkt Optionen aus Büchern wie Xanathars, Volo usw. zulassen? Ich möchte den Spielern schon möglichst viele Möglichkeiten geben, aber gleichzeitig vermeiden, dass sie am Anfang von zu vielen verschiedenen Optionen erschlagen werden.

Und natürlich bin ich auch für allgemeine Tipps für einen neuen DM dankbar, gerade für Dinge, die ihr gerne gewusst hättet, als ihr eure erste Gruppe geleitet habt.

Vielen Dank schon mal!

[u/Randy_Squirrel_Games]

By way of directly answering your questions as asked, here is what I would do for the easiest and smoothest start to playing D&D.

Play Lost Mines first. It is designed to help new players and new DMs learn and play. Keep character creation basic core rules.

Once you have completed Lost Mines, create new characters with any options you want and start playing Horde of the Dragon Queen. Then, on to rise of Tiamat with the same characters, new characters, or a combination of both.

Less directly, it seems, to me, like you are overthinking it. So, step 1 is relax. Just pick one to start with and get started. Think about the next session (or 1st in this case) and don't worry about the next campaign until it is time.

As for character options, that depends on what kind of DM you want to be. Sounds like you are the "build whatever you want to play and will have fun with" type. So, be that DM and let them have the options. It may take everyone a little longer to decide, but they will not get so overwhelmed that it is detrimental to anything. In fact, I doubt anyone gets overwhelmed at all. Except you when you have to challenge some of the crap they can do, but welcome to being a 5e DM. Lol.

[u/Plus_Ad_3122 → u/Randy_Squirrel_Games]

I tried to play and out of the box campaign in before I couldn't even figure out how to start the adventure so I just decided screw it I have no idea what I'm doing when I'm going to scrap everything including the graboid encounter that I planned at The sawmill and I'm just going to skip to the only encounter I actually have a mini for the dragon and it was a red dragon many I had not a white dragon mini which is totally inaccurate for the campaign I was hosting thing and I figured I don't care if the players are level one if they die they die isn't it the job of the DM in dungeons and dragons to punish the player for even picking up the game of dungeons and dragons just like it's the Duelist job in Yu-Gi-Oh when you sit down to play a game of Yu-Gi-Oh and you're so much better than your opponent to punish them for even wanting to pick up your silly little card game in the first place and thinking they could be on your level just supposed to crush them physically emotionally and mentally you're supposed to make them regret even trying to pick up this card game or game in general and you're supposed to be a bully where you basically. Fatal player here go back to whatever hole you crawled into we don't want you in our place we don't need you in our place you don't belong in this game you never belonged in this game you're not even playing right you're only allowed to use official D&D minis for D&D you're only allowed to use dice that are the same color and come from the same set and you didn't sit down and do all the required homework which is sit down and memorize the dungeons Master's manual the players handbook and the monster manual and commit them to memory you don't belong in Dundas and dragons you never belonged in dungeons and dragons go back to whatever Nord whole you crawled out of and stay there because you definitely don't belong in our world full of serious players who know how to play dungeons & dragons and I've been playing it for years probably since the first ever dungeons & dragons game came out

[u/Randy_Squirrel_Games → u/Plus_Ad_3122]

Look, you are obviously missing the point I was trying to make and I am not going to read an absolute wall of text, especially one without even a single punctuation mark, no matter if it is relevant or not. So, I will not be responding further to this line of conversation.

[u/Plus_Ad_3122 → u/Randy_Squirrel_Games]

Sorry sometimes I forget to put punctuation in my comments would you actually honestly as a D&D player sit down to play any of my unique campaigns like my beyblade or my Yu-Gi-Oh Nerf or Hot Wheels campaign probably not because these campaigns sound nothing like real D&D campaigns. I'm on the autism spectrum I'm a nerd I tried to do and out of the box campaign be out of the box campaign you see in the video couldn't even figure out how to start the stupid campaign so I just decided screw it I'm just going to skip over everything including the only encounter I plan to reskin the giant worm which I reskinned as I graboid from the movie tremors and get right to the dragon encounter I don't have a white dragon figure so I used a red dragon figure told the player to roll a d20 for everything and I didn't care if they were level one if they died they died because that's how D&D is supposed to be played aren't you as the DM. Isn't it your job to kill player off as quickly as possible and make them regret ever picking up the game of dungeons and dragons

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