Depending on the game, you don’t even have to customize it yourself. There’s a 3rd party Dungeon Ancestry for PF2
I am just going to keep commenting this in this meme sub until I get a satisfactory answer… Is there a place to watch DND games and learn about it for the DND curious? My only friends who would play with me are all an airplane trip in various directions, so I can’t just jump in.
If you just want to watch people play, there’s tons of shows. Critical Role is the most famous - just keep your expectations for an actual game a bit lower, the people on the show are professionals and they are there primarily to make a good show and not just to have fun with each other.
They also have a series of short videos called Handbooker Helper where they explain different aspects of the game.
If you want to learn the mechanics interactively, I’d recommend you pick up Solasta: Crown of the Magister. It’s a 5e based video game that explains the mechanics quite well imo. It’s also played on a 3D grid, which is most likely how you will play the game irl. It’s also available on Xbox Game Pass, with crossplay with Steam and a great co-op mode with up to 4 players. Baldur’s Gate 3 is coming out in early August (on PC at least), which is also based on 5e but I’m not sure how well it explains the rules. It will probably be a great RPG experience though.
Jesus frigging christ. I have always wanted to play a DND video game, and the moment J switch to Playstation because people say it has nerdier games and I want to move away from shooters… it’s on frigging Xbox.
Ugh
Also follow up question. I started watching part of a 3 hour video and a lot of the game play almost seemed like Clue. Is their a mystery component to the game?
Depends on what you and your table want to focus on. The mechanics are there for a lot of things, from hitting stuff to talking to people.
There are also other games that focus on different things. Pathfinder for example focuses on the more granular aspects of things (for example you have a different Armor Class for touch attacks, regular attacks and whenever you’re off your feet) but there are lots more. Recently Overly Sarcastic Productions made a video where Red’s sister talked about a bunch of different games, check it out if you want.
I’d suggest watching any Critical Role campaign, or if you’re more of a podcast guy listening to DnDnD.
