A few notes: Double the size of the spell cards, at least. A lot of players are going to find that tiny font impossible to read. Include a notebook! I recommend a flip-book spiral bound across the top. Super cheap, gives your player something to take notes on, and feels disposable enough to rip pages out and hand over as notes if needed. If it's not big enough to fit a character sheet into after a single fold, consider stepping up the size slightly. i.e. should probably be at least 4.5" x 6", hard to tell if that one is from here. The idea being, they can store *everything* in the box, and just grab the box and run out the door for game night.
I've found that the little rectangular prisms that Chessex dice sets come in are really good for putting one or two minis in to keep them from being knocked around by your loose dice or other stuff when you don't have foam inserts to cushion your minis.
this is super cool but i am going to stick with paper characters on a paper map because I have a total budget of about 20 bucks (to kickstart a party of fresh players with me being a first time dm)
This is lovely! But, to be entirely honest, if I had gotten one of these boxes at my very first session I would have felt intimidated, overwhelmed with too much commitment. 😂 Yet, these boxes are super cool and even after decades of playing I'd love to have this cute little box! 😊
The best way to welcome a player into a game is to give them the book and an amount of time for them to read through the rules. Don't play with people if they don't know the rules, and if they ask stupid questions, respond with "RTFM"
Really awesome idea, it's clear you've put a lot of thought into this. It's very considerate of you! Just please tell me that you put the dice inside of the bag so that they wouldn't scratch the figure
Oh man, losing your first dice does hurt. My original collection of dice just disappeared one day over a decade ago. I've never really recovered. I have a collection of perfectly balanced clear dice in my dnd binder and a couple random sets, but no bag or desire to start a new collection.
If you play with a battlemap, a little rolled up paper ruler with real-world inches and game-world feet marked on it could be helpful. I bought a mini tape measure a few years back at an Autozone and it's been just about the best $6 I ever spent on a tool for playing, so paper approximation may be appreciated.
With that size box, you could add a pocketmod character sheet and a spellbook. There are a number of pdfs available, so you should be able to find something you like.
I know this is a month old but for anyone else a Bard’s Song of Rest is great for flavoring as cooking to heal. You can also manufacture healing potions during your rests as well (in the form of baked goods) bardic inspiration could be cookies/biscuits. When you think of cooking as a bard’s art it all comes together
The gift of Knowledge is by far the most useful thing to give to any new player, need to start making them for my players (old and new). so many times i see a new person just be like "i attack" and thats it... there is so much more to do!
It's prolly too late, but considder the beastheart from MCDM, a class built around having a monsterous wild companion. As for healing with food, the chef feat does most of it, so just let her have that a few levels in advance, alternatively give everyone a extra ASI at level 1 or something.
References to climb speed are really great, but that list is a bit cumbersome and id almost bust it out down the line. Id try to promote the idea of "say what you want to do" and then we find mechanics to resolve your action. What a list like that could do to some players is limit their creativity and maybe immersion. It just feels like a less responsive UI from a video game, and that cpuld be a turn off to gamers and non gamers
Not sure if you’ve figured out a class yet, but just in case, a Alchemist Artificer with the potions flavored as food would work decently. Got the idea from another RU-vidr.
Some thin clear plastic bent to a 90 in the corner to put the character in, that way the dice and other things dont constantly rub against it and wear the paint off.
