That’s awesome! My friend group tried out DND in a similar way, none of us had ever played before so one stepped up to DM. I’ve become a DM myself since then, almost begrudgingly at first but I’ve really come to enjoy it. But if I may ask, what got you to set up a DND community before playing yourself? Were you inspired by communities on other sites, or by following campaigns (Critical Role et. al)?
I have been immersed in the D&D community for over a decade of my life. I’ve owned most of the books of the last 10 years, and I have listened to hundreds of hours of podcasts, consumed every comic there is to consume, ready days of articles, etc.
But my friend group has always been either uncoordinated, in different parts of the world, or just different places in life that things have never lined up for us to actually play the game. FINALLY things have lined up just right and I am DMing not one but TWO groups!
I ran a wild west game of 5e called Spellslinger for three years from 3rd to 15th. You can actually adapt most DnD monsters and races quite easily to a wild west them.
Dwarves - gold and mithril prospectors
Wood elves - dessert nomads
Aaracocra - native Americans although you need to be respectful obviously
Tielflings - always played piano in bars for some reason
Giants - desert giants work really naturally
It also turns out they’re is an absolute ton of fantasy wild west art which serves for great inspiration.
If its someone else’s art with a watermark, no. If its your own art with a watermark yeah that’s advertising. This would probably have to be a case by case thing, like is this person posting their watermarked art every day? Probably too much.
#2 because it's gonna be a sword on 70% of the planet. Especially since you live in a magical world with fish people and spells that make you breathe underwater and protect you from pressure,etc, etc. Meanwhile the first sword lets your enemies know you are hungry, which a really smart enemy could take advantage of.
My favorite part of DMing is to hide some inside joke into a dungeon or campaign. So everything seems like generic fantasy world but upon completing some quest it results in exposing some silly that is some dumb joke my friends.made years ago. That reveal is the best. I think in general it’s that I get to juxtaposition silly things and serious moments throughout.
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