How to Play Simplified Dungeons and Dragons! 

Thanks! We really want to get this rolling again and slowly add more rules.

Would you mind sending your homebrew. I think my daughter's would love it

@@TheUSNcorps21 sure, I'll see if I can find it. 😊

Glad I could help!

So cool that you met Gygax. Dad played a ton back then too and those manuals were among his more treasured possessions. ;) It's actually a lot easier now in 5e. We're still learning a bit, but it seems like they have cut way back on the complexity while still keeping a lot of the core elements.

d and d!? xD its d&d

They are going to start rolling characters next week. We'll add one wrinkle each time until we get things into a more complete rule set and then we'll probably let Presley take over as the DM.

no problem!! i love seeing people getting into d&d!

Heh. that's awesome. There will probably be a similar encounter in the next session based on this module. We are curious to see how Presley reacts to it.

DND Beyond is a really fantastic site to use for keeping track of everything if you're rolling your own characters.

I was focusing a lot in the beginning of the video. Once I started to get the gist of the play, I spent the rest of the video brainstorming. I got a ruleset for me. Here is how it goes. There is solo play which dice only affecting combat. The player character has 40 hit points by default. Non player characters have 20. All characters have an armour class of 5 by default. All characters can use a basic attack. Roll a d20, and the number determines damage. There are three kinds of rolls. There is initiative, armor class and damage. They always use a d20. The end of the fight has the player immediately heald from damage and other negative conditions. If a character dies, they instantly resurrect in the same place. All abilities can be used an unlimited amount. So there is no spell slot tracking. All six attributes have two two modifier effects. First an attribute increases damage and other effects of an attack or other ability. This is determined by class. There are six attributes and twelve classes. So each attribute increases ability effects for two classes. Second, an attribute provides some other beneficial effect for all characters regardless of class. A player picks thier attribute modifiers at the start. Two attributes have a 2 modifier for advantage. Two have a 0 for weakness. Two have a 1 for average. It is recommended that players pick modifiers to suit thier class. It is especially good to get the 2 modifier to the attribute that increases ability effects for the class. Strength increases effects for fighters and paladins. It also increases armor class. Agility increases effects for rogues and hunters. It also increases initiative. Constitution increases effects for druids and barbarians. It also increases hit points. Intelligence increases effects for wizards and sorcerers. It also decreases armor class of the opponent. Wisdom increases effects for clerics and monks. It also decreases effects of the opponent's abilities. Charisma decreases the initiative of the opponent. Completing an adventure or session causes the player character to level up. The only benefit is gaining new abilities. That is it for my basic rules. I guess the weirdest part is the effects of the more psychological attributes. So I will explain. I think of charisma as being a good thing to contrast agility. A fighter with high charisma would make the opponent so mesmerized, or even so scared. The charming effect slows down the opponent. Intelligence has an offensive effect to complement the glass cannon role of a wizard. A fighter and a wizard are the two most basic classes and they are the ultimate opposites. This is reflected in how the classes have their main attributes do opposite things to the armor class. Fighters are supposed to use their strength to bear heavy armor and gear. This allows more damage with a sword and more armor class with a shield and metal armor. In a simplified version, I have the strength attribute affect armor class and warrior damage directly. It still complements the tank role of the fighter. Wisdom has a defensive effect to compliment the healing role of a cleric. It affects damage instead of armor class. So it counteracts the damage increase that all classes get. It is like how healing recovers the hit points after receiving damage. I guess my class choices for Constitution are weird too. I can explain that. Druids and barbarians are classes of the wild and nature. They get so much growth and strength from all the plants of the environment. So they get high constitution. Barbarians are tough, but they don't wear heavy armor. So a higher amount of hit points works as an alternate method of defense instead of higher armor class. In World of Warcraft, druids can turn into animals and fight up close. This aids in their fighting style. I don't know whether this happens or not in DND. In this case, a druid can use natural strength a lot like a barbarian. I am really excited to get more books once I learned an easier way to play. I think I only have two books left. There is Candlkeep Mysteries and Tales of Yawning Portal. I plan to go to bookstore tomorrow and get them. It is nice to finish a collection. Then that can be all the canon books. I wouldn't have the spinoff books or third party books. However the one kind of spinoff books I had was Magic the Gathering. I have the books for Ravnica, Theros and Strixhaven. I got into Magic the Gathering a few years ago, and I am still a fan. This game is also good for the explorer. I am more into collecting instead of playing. I am interested in the variety of cards, and not so much the financial aspect of collecting. The best part of the game is exploring the color pie and using it to build different kinds of decks. I obsess over that too. The game has a lot of world building, which is also great. I first got into the Ravnica part of the world. It is really cool. It is about political rivalry of factions, and each faction is based on two colors. It is a good thing I got in when the War of Spark block was still in standard. I really got sucked into it, and built a deck for every guild. The Ravnica book was the first DND book I got. I even got it before the basic books. I got it mainly for the adventure and the imagery. I was playing the card game and not the RPG. I don't regret that. Learning the card game is challenging enough. I did like the pictures in the book and cards. Each guild has its own visual style with color coding. So that was worth it. Since I am learning DND, running a Ravnica campaign would be a high priority. This is more of a setting book, than an adventure modual. I think I can come up with something. Maybe I can go to each guild and fight fanatical extremists in order to save the Guild Pact. Maybe it would end in the War of the Spark. I do find it unfair that the lore picks on Nicol Bolas. There are plenty of other dragon leaders. Maybe there can be one for each guild. The extremists have the goal of summoning the dragon of their guild. My favorite guild is Izzit, and that is already led by Niv Mizzit. He could count as a dragon leader. Another good candidate would be the Jeskai Dragon from Tarkir. So there is a big war with ten dragon bosses, plus add in a bunch of plain walkers. That would make War of Spark even more epic than it already was. The three crossover books are just the tip of the iceberg. Magic the Gathering has so many other places. A Phyrexia set is coming up, and I am excited. I got a brilliant idea. Take the Baldurs Gate Descent to Avernus module, and replace the enemies with scary cyborgs. Then boom. Phyrexia campaign. I think that would fit, because both resemble Dante's Inferno. There are other things. There is Kaldheim, Eldrane, Ikoria etc. There is even Dominaria. That is awesome. I would also like to check out the crossover of the DND set of cards. I like the idea of a class being associated with one or two colors. I would like to develop a game that combines an RPG with collectable cards. That is a cool new kind of game. Maybe the crossovers can help bridge the gap.

It is possible but will require a lot of integrity on your part. Your character must always react based on the same information that your other players have, despite the fact that you as a DM have a lot of priviledged info. I would recomend playing a support role character, or a series of NPCs that aid the adventurers in their quests

I was thinking the same thing. I was wondering is she a midget or a really intelligent kid? 🤔😁