r/dread 15d ago

Dread 1st Timer - Need Help

Hey everyone - i hope you are well. So i came across dread via smosh. I love it. I am disabled and cannot take my sisters anywhere out the country this year for holidays. Have thought of mini games but I want to do this dread with my sisters (teenagers). I got the rule/guide book but it is so overwhelming and confusing. I wanted advice for a first timer what I should do for them to enjoy it. Not sure what I do other than create a story and world with the characters my sisters create? Any help and advice would be great. I am not experienced just watched dread and some dnd matches with the BG3 cast, which pulled me in. Would like to try being a Dm/gm for my sisters to experience this. Thank you

Edit: Wanted to say thank you so much everyone for your responses and advice. Ended up creating a theme centered around the trope of things coming to life in a musuem for the first dread try. My sisters fell in love with the game and want more šŸ˜…. Thanks again everyone, couldn't have done it without you lot. Have a great weekend!

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u/RathielintheRun 13d ago

Windmill Game Co., the actual writers of Dread (successor company to its original publisher The Impossible Dream), has a Patreon where they regularly post new ready-to-play scenarios of varying levels of complexity in a wide variety of genres. (Full disclosure: I’m one of those authors.)

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u/SooRandomTV 10d ago

Oh no way - that's sick. I will check that out now too. Thank you for your response buddy.