Hey all. &nbsp;I'm cross-posting this from Reddit. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/lfg/comments/3ko8nk/onlin" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/lfg/comments/3ko8nk/onlin</a>... I'd prefer if you sent me a message on Reddit, only because I check that more often and would reply sooner. No worries if you reply here instead, though. Anyway. Brace yourselves for a fairly long post. Scroll down to the bottom for a TL;DR which will assuredly fail to cover all of the bases... but I make the attempt regardless. Alright. Here we go... The Setting : (Foreword: Though I am using D&D 5e, this game will be set before the Spellplague. "Old Faerûn", if you will.) You are adventurers in the Forgotten Realms of Faerûn, and have traveled to Luskan to seek out fame, glory, riches or whatever else calls to you. Perhaps you were just bored; either way, this game won't be opening up with some epic plot hook, or a gradual unfolding of earth-shattering events happening around you. This game isn't about that... it's about the city of Luskan and the surrounding regions, it's about adventure, your characters, etc. It won't be focused on Luskan entirely or anything... we'll be seeing other locales, I'm certain. From Nesmé and the Trollmoors to the east, or Longsaddle with the Harpell wizard family, or the mysterious woods outside Neverwinter. Hell, you might even find yourselves guarding a caravan en route to the Icewind Dale. The System : D&D 5E. Or rather, my version of it. What I mean by that is that I loved the tactical combat of D&D 4e, as fourth edition offered a feeling that was less like a roleplaying game, and more like X-Com, or Final Fantasy Tactics to the combat. It was cool, and felt almost like a separate game. That's why I loved battlemaps in that system. In D&D 5e, I don't think it is a system made better by trying to shoehorn tactical combat, battlemaps, measuring distances, etc... in quite the same manner as 4e. I'm much more content with just letting "rule of cool" stand for combat encounters in D&D 5e. If you're casting a Fireball, and don't want to hit your friends... we'll let the fictional positioning of the scene decide if that'll work. In a small, enclosed space? Everyone will probably get quite toasty indeed. In a wide open field? Sure, you can totally drop that fireball with pinpoint accuracy. That kind of thing. Apart from not using maps or letting us get bogged down with the finer details (like carry weight, movement speed, etc), I'm going to be running 5e pretty much rules as written. The Who : Great band. Also, you guys. You're just adventurers, right? Just some people trying to make their way through the world. ... also, trying to play a roleplaying game. This section is more about the player, not the character. What I'm looking for out of a player is someone who is enthusiastic for the hobby. I don't care if you're super into D&D 5e; it's just a game system. What I want from someone is the feeling that they've shown up to be a part of the game . I firmly believe the old adage "roleplaying is a conversation", and believing thusly, players have to hold up their end by telling their side of the story. I think there's a tendency in D&D games to kick back and let the GM run you through the chapters of his story, one page at a time, but that isn't going to be this game. Perhaps a more honest statement would be not that I'm looking for 1-2 more players for a D&D game, but that I'm looking for 1-2 more people that I grow to enjoy playing roleplaying games with, and consider for future games. ME! : Hi. I'm Nick, I'm 29 years old, and I've never run a D&D game before. I know, right? Who does that? The games I've run have all been Powered by the Apocalypse. So, Apocalypse World and Dungeon World, specifically. I've played a lot of FATE, a lengthy D&D 4e campaign, and have splashed around in D&D 5e for a while now, but haven't run it myself. I'm changing that here. I've always loved the Forgotten Realms. I think people dismiss the realms as being "generic fantasy", but that's pretty far from the truth. That's like saying the Lord of the Rings was generic fantasy... why, because it contains everything? The Forgotten Realms is so huge that there are regions in it that would appeal to everyone, if you like any sort of fantasy at all. The How : Skype for voice chat, Roll20 for, uh... rolling twenty sided dice. We don't use cams, so no video. You don't need to know anything about D&D 5e except that you are willing to play it. If you're a complete noob, great! Let me know that. Just... look. If you WANT to play, and you don't just sit there quietly in a game waiting for your turn to talk, but treat it like an actual conversation where people jump in and engage organically and naturally with other human beings, you know? ... that kind of thing is worth waaaaay more than having experience with the system. The When : I'd like to start on either this coming Friday, or next Monday. So Friday the 18th or Monday the 21st. I like to start my games at 7:00 EST, and while generally speaking I prefer them to run 4 hours, one of the players I already have would prefer sessions that are closer to 3 hours. So 7:00 - 10:00 EST will be the intended target we hit with each session. TL;DR (and more info as well) : Sorry. Too long-winded, I know. Looking for 1-2 more players for a D&D 5e game set in the Forgotten Realms about adventurers meeting in Luskan, on the Sword Coast. I currently have three players already. I'm comfortable with a maximum of five, hence the "1 or 2 more" clause. If you're still reading, and this all sounds cool to you... awesome, send me a private message or reply here, as you see fit. Please mention your age, and anything else you might think is interesting or relevant. I don't need or want a resumé from you, you know? You're not applying for a job, but you're also not sending a one sentence text message to a parent. We're strangers. Introduce yourself, and I'll gladly reciprocate. Thanks for reading this, everybody. Sorry if I got a little lost in my own ramblings; I tend to do that. The general feeling I'd like you to take away from this, if I can be so bold as to suggest a feeling for you to feel as opposed to letting you just feel whatever the hell you want... is that I am someone who cares about this hobby. I want to find people that I like. Not just people I can tolerate spending three or four hours a week, rolling dice with. I want to find people that also look forward to this shit every week with me, and talk about it outside of the games, and share interest in the hobby, and are also looking for what I'm looking for; friends to play with, because this is a social activity, and becoming friends with the people you play with makes it infinitely better than just rolling dice with strangers and making up strange stories to give that natural 1 you just rolled some semblance of meaning. Anyway. Thanks again. Feel free to shoot me a PM if you're interested, or just to tell me to never make a LFG this long again. Or you can post here and do either of those things, just as well.