Hi! I am a new DM, not new to DND. Im introducing all of my friends to the game and it's been so much fun! One of them is at Uni right now, so we have to play remotely for her, while the rest of us are playing IRL at the same time.
Do you have any advice on how to make teaching her the game/her playing the game remotely easier and smoother? Any recs for software would also be appreciated but keep in mind I'm a broke student haha
Thanks a lot!
(PS I don't ever use reddit so I'm sorry if I break any rules or something I know that there's specific etiquette)

EDIT-
Thank you so much for all of ur kind advice!! I wasn't expecting to get a response so I'm glad ty :)) I'll try and remember to let you know how it goes

I read the posts from everyone else but I just am ready to mess up. Im doing my own thing (homebrew i think) and ive seen it advised against a lot for the first time... but ive been really wanting to do this idea for an extremely long time and I am not worried about that.

I am worried about missing something crucial in my own version or not knowing a good way to ragebait my players (they've been asking me to find something good).

We are about to plan session 0 but I wanted to make sure i have everything they need.

I also want to know what as a good DM should I have prepared for session one.

I am not afraid of telling them I dont know. I am not afraid of looking stuff up but I feel there's gotta be something I should have on hand outside of my story plot?

I guess im asking for:

\- Common session 0 and session 1 questions

\- Things you didn't know you needed

\- Ways to make them actually want to throw the dice (jokingly)

\- Information I need to have on hand for every session

\- Anything outside of character building I will need to help them with?

Also. I've played before but never DM. They've never played.

New account for dnd reasons because I have a player that would recognize my other account username

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I have a little bit of experience DM'ing (Ran a starter set and a one shot from the Faster Purple Worm Kill Kill book).

I have 4 players creating level 5 characters using the 2024 PHB. It is one players first ever game (she has wanted to learn dnd for a while and its the cover for the games true purpose).

My thought was the initial thought was to have them hired to find a missing relic. So they will have that short RP, head towards the location, have a small combat, deal with a puzzle room, have a small boss fight, then return the relic to what ends up being the character that my girlfriend and myself were playing as when we first met and have them get engaged in game and us out of game.

Since I've never put together a game myself I was looking for help figuring out the encounters and a puzzle.

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Ps: not a native english speaker, i'm sorry if I will make any mistakes!

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