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Wow, there's a lot there to digest 😄 Many thanks for the advice, it's really appreciated. I think I'm going to stick with the DnD set I bought for several reasons. For starters, my son has been watching some videos for a while now on Youtube of playing DnD (not this campaign, thankfully) and he's really excited to try it, he's even read up on the basic rules etc. Secondly, my daughter knows what DnD is after being a massive fan of Community, Big Bang Theory and Stranger Things, so I think trying to get her to play something else might put her off, somewhat! (Seriously, her love for Community rivals my own, she's Troy to my Abed, we even own a mug each for Troy and Abed in the Morning 😉 ) Thirdly, it comes with pre-rolled character sheets for them all, which should hopefully helps us getting going quicker once I explain basic concepts for them all. I remember when I was younger my friends and I spending about an hour just rolling characters, if I try to get them to do that, I think it might put them off before we even get started! Plus, I've played it when I was young so I'm at least a little familiar with it! One thing I've seen mentioned on lots of other sites I've been reading is to not be too slavish to the rules, at least for beginners, but to go with the flow a little more. Does this sound right to you? Luckily, I know the players very well, it's my wife, son and daughter, as well as my potential future daughter-in-law so I can play to their strengths to keep them involved with it. Plus, they trust me so are a lot less likely to debate whther I've got the rules right or not 😄 I also appreciate @Ashingtonadvice about not splitting up the group. Hopefully that won't be an issue with this campaign, but I'll make sure it doesn't happen 😄 Any other hardcore Do's and Don'ts out there?

So my family like to do family board game, been doing it for a while. When finishing the last one, I, jokingly, said "hey next time, let's play Dungeons and Dragons!" My eldest lad, he was very excited by this and, after talking to my 19 yr old daughter and her girlfriend, and also my wife, both of whom said they were willing to give it a go, I bought the DnD Starter Set, which contains the Lost Mines of Phandelver campaign and a basic rulebook. Now, I've played DnD, but it was a loooooooong time ago, we're talking over 30 years now, and I never DM'd, ever, so I'm a little nervous about doing this and screwing it up so they don't enjoy it. I'm reaching out to you more seasoned DnD players and DM's out there for any advice. Any tips, tricks, guidelines, things to watch out for, suggestions, etc to help me make it a bit more fun. I know it won't go perfectly and I'll make some errors, as will the players, but I'd still appreciate any advice!

Dear gods, it's Lui!! 😄 Yeah, I remember the name well, for......a fair few reasons! 😄 Long time passed though so it's all good 🙂 And yeah, I remember Xanthus and who the hell could forget the legend that was Tainted Greek 😄

Truly one of the funniest people I met in this game, many a time he had me in literal tears of laughter during a chat with him, especially about Monty Python 🙂 Always missed. /em holdtorch

this what happened in the last game i played Mender Derek ruined it for everyone dupin servers and inf and just anything to cheat there no extened servers there trying to catch Mender Derek and we pay for it so unless people don't let Lord Nemesis know of wrong doing's in the game it we ruin it and there we not be a COH IT WELL BE GONE TO THE AMERICANS!!!!!!!

Bloody hell, there's a classic name I remember! Welcome back 🙂

I remember tuning to your shows 🙂

You say it like it's a bad thing!

Well, technically, it's been around a LOT longer, although no one is completely certain who from, although a lot of people believe it was Plutarch. Sit Thomas Wyatt wrote it as follows in 1527 "Alexander, whan he herde Anaxarchus argue that there were infynite worldes, it is said that he wept. And whan his frendes asked hym what thing had happened him to be wept for: “Is it nat to be wept for,” quod he, “syns they say there be infynite worldes, and we are nat yet lorde of one?” Although I like Hans Gruber's better 😉

"And Alexander wept, seeing as he had no more worlds to conquer." 😄

I've been doing the same thing, but I've started at the 80's Trouble is, I forgot how........different some of the stuff back was in the 80's! Man, the way the did Power Man back then, would NOT work today 😄

I've been a DC fan for a loooooong time, since just after the Crisis, so I got into at a good time to start them. Made the choice for DC over Marvel, I knew from looking at the shelves I could never manage to afford both 🙂 Still read them all every week, the past couple of months has been......challenging for a fan 🙂

It is and it is 🙂 Well worth tracking down if you can and loved the movie, the series is even better. Just found out there is another spin-off series from new Zealand as well, based on the police officers from the movie, same actors as well, going to binge those now 🙂

To what? It's a TV show, not the easiest thing to link to 😄 I can add a trailer for it, if you want? Save you having to Google it?

Is anyone else a massive fan of What We Do In The Shadows? Seriously, this show is absolutely brilliant, so well written and performed by all the cast and yet no-one I know watches it!! It's almost unheard of! Given some of the amazing guest stars that have appeared in it, it's shocking how few people talk about it! Seeing Mark Hamill in the latest episode caught me right off guard! Also.......fucking Colin Robinson. urrgh!

I have a single supergroup and base for all my characters on Torch. It's a very simple, three room thing that has the basics in of what I want. I've been using it more to travel around the city faster after noticing how I was being left behind in missions and TF's especially. I'm hoping that it's not using too much space as I'm only ever in it for a few seconds, usually.

PSY-!!!! OMG!!!! *hugs Psy- madly* I was just talking about you with Maz the other day 😄 Remember this? 😄

Failing that, run through the Synapse TF, you are all but guaranteed to get it in that one.

If you were EU based there was Evolution Radio, Titan Gaming Radio and Rogues Radio, Current one is Regen Radio, still running

Confirmed! Just solo'd it and got the badge! 😄 I wonder if the other couple of TF's are soloable that I need. May give them a go 🙂

Does it?? I thought it stayed as an AV for TF's? I'll give that a try then, thanks!

Already in there, Fury's channel and he invited me in there, he's helped me a lot with getting badges and he's a sexy legend 🙂 Again, I don't see many MO's advertised in there, to be fair, it's a trials channel so I wouldn't expect to see many. I'm also in the Torchbearer TF and Badge channels. so I'm always looking. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining or angry or anything, it's just frustrating to be so close to completion and not being able to get anywhere with the last few. Half of it's bad timing, I saw a Sister Psyche advertised earlier, just as I was having to log off for a work Zoom call! So annoying 😄

Sorry, should have said in the original post, not wanting to do farming, never enjoyed it at all 🙂 Also, I have all the other grind badges, it's just the last Inf badge I need now.

To be fair, I see ITF all the time, just not often an MO attempt. I'm not going to join an ITF and ask to set it to MO when it's a speed run. A sped run is a lot less likely to get the MO anyway as people will be steamrolling it and not worrying about dying as much I do join Hami raids when I can, was in one that Fury ran the other night, but I'm UK based and it's not as often at UK times, more often they are at 2-3 in the morning for me. I know they happen and I do join them when I can, I just don't see the things I need for the badges very often As for running my own? Yeah, I'm not remotely good enough to run things like MSR, Hami or MO attempts, I barely keep up in those things as it is 🙂

Aaaaaaagggh!! Getting so frustrating now, got all the badges I can do solo and got 48 left to do and they are all ones that can't be solo'd. At 1492 atm and I never see things like MO runs for ITF or anyone ever running Sister Psyche. 😄 Plus, that damn final influence badge is a nightmare!