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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.
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.
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
there's a ton of dnd video games. Baldur's Gate 1, 2 are direct ruleset translations. Neverwinter night's 1 and 2 are the same. Pathfinder has a bunch of of games using it's ruleset as well.
Is there any turn based games for Playstation? Is that not how it works?
Also anything newer? I looked at reviews for Neverwinter nights on Playstation and the general consensus is it is awful and to avoid at all costs. They say the PC version is alright... but I am currently limited to PS5 and mobile.
Divinity Original Sin 2 is on there too, which is literally the best of the genre. There's a mobile port of Fallout if you want to play a good old turn-based game. Baldur's Gate 3 will come out on PS5 in October iirc.
for ps5 your pretty stuck. I can't think of a dnd game for a console since super nintendo.
I'd suggest watching any Critical Role campaign, or if you're more of a podcast guy listening to DnDnD.
If your town has a comic book store go there and ask the owner of there are any scheduled games or where people play. They'll know.
Then just go and say you want to sit in
A guy called Brett streams 5e games. I'm not sure if it teaches you anything about the game but you can watch other people play.