Could a Teen Find Enjoyment On Here?

So I'm a teenager that would love to try some tabletops, I have even watched one on Twitch for a few hours, but I'm kind of tired of everyone hating kid gamers. I love old video games and newer ones, and I am really into the D&D universe, but whenever I play a game and put my mic in, everyone leaves or I get kicked. I was wondering how much of the community would actually be fine playing with a teenager that has never played a tabletop and doesn't know most of the basic rules. I'm not obnoxious, have the best grades in my class, I don't even SWEAR yet people always judge too quickly. As if it matters, my favorite game is Borderlands 2, my second favorite is Daggerfall, and my third is the strategy XCOM.

Hey, Brennan, Welcome to Roll20! Your best bet is to look for games welcoming new players as those GMs will likely be more tolerant towards teenagers. The Looking For Group tool ( <a href="https://app.roll20.net/lfg/search" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/lfg/search</a> ) has an option to only show games welcoming new players, and the Looking for Group forum ( <a href="https://app.roll20.net/lfg/search" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/lfg/search</a> ) often has GMs posting games specifically intended for newbies. New games are posted daily, sometimes hourly, you'll eventually find a match. To maximize your chances, be certain to completely fill out your User Profile with the games you're looking for and your available times; a lively and well-written Bio helps you to stand above the crowd. Also, fill out your ' Actively Seeking Group For ' to put yourself in the Player Directory . Good luck, and happy gaming!

While I don't necessarily have issues with young players, I run games for newbies much less frequently than I do for people who have taken time to read the rules and know their characters. In some cases, if I have many good applicants, I can save a lot of time and energy if I avoid players with very little, "hours played." Be sure to fill out your player profile. Be sure to keep looking for games every day (don't only look on weekends). Be friendly, and communicate with your best English. I'm having a difficult time thinking that you get kicked just because you plug in your mic, unless you have a really bad mic. Most adults will be willing to communicate any issues with you if you PM them. There are many challenges to finding a game on Roll20. You are hardly alone. If you do some forum searches, you can turn up several other threads about the same subject. Be thoughtful about what you attribute to your own self, vs what might just be the average experience for Roll20 games. Good luck to you! If you are interested, I'm willing to voice chat with you, if you think it will help nail down what the problem might be. If so, just PM me.

Personally, I don't care what your age is, only your maturity level. I have known plenty of teens and children who were (or still are!) more mature than adults two or three times their age. But most importantly, any player needs to mesh with the group. I'm a fan of the Same Page Tool to help make sure the GM and players are all on the same page when coming into the game. When everyone is expecting the same thing out of the game, everyone tends to get along better. =)

@ Brennan B. and anyone else in your sitaution, I run a game of Basic Fantasy RPG periodically, from time to time, no commitment needed. It's All Ages and I welcome New Players, and will help guide you to get the free rulebook, make character in-game in the first 15 minutes, and then will help show you the Roll20 interface and how to play it. BFRPG is similar to old-school, early-on, Basic Dungeons & Dragons, like the early 1980's style ("Red Box D&D"). If this interests you, read Page 1-54 of the Free rulebook PDF from here, <a href="http://basicfantasy.org/downloads.html" rel="nofollow">http://basicfantasy.org/downloads.html</a> And then send me a Private Message asking about "Basic Fantasy, Explore Dungeons Inside a Strange World", the title of the campaign. The soonest game session is this Thursday, in the evening-hours USA times. If you can play this week, get the PDF and message me very soon. If you can't play this week, you can still message me for the Join Link and wait to find out when the next session time will be announced.

Gold said: @ Brennan B. and anyone else in your sitaution, I run a game of Basic Fantasy RPG periodically, from time to time, no commitment needed. It's All Ages and I welcome New Players, and will help guide you to get the free rulebook, make character in-game in the first 15 minutes, and then will help show you the Roll20 interface and how to play it. BFRPG is similar to old-school, early-on, Basic Dungeons & Dragons, like the early 1980's style ("Red Box D&D"). If this interests you, read Page 1-54 of the Free rulebook PDF from here, <a href="http://basicfantasy.org/downloads.html" rel="nofollow">http://basicfantasy.org/downloads.html</a> And then send me a Private Message asking about "Basic Fantasy, Explore Dungeons Inside a Strange World", the title of the campaign. The soonest game session is this Thursday, in the evening-hours USA times. If you can play this week, get the PDF and message me very soon. If you can't play this week, you can still message me for the Join Link and wait to find out when the next session time will be announced. I'd like that, but not this Thursday. I usually have a tight schedule based on having an eleven-month old here. Do you know if there are any chat-communicated games on here or are they all voice? It would be nice to have that once in a while. Also, how long does a game session usually take?

Brian said: Personally, I don't care what your age is, only your maturity level. I have known plenty of teens and children who were (or still are!) more mature than adults two or three times their age. But most importantly, any player needs to mesh with the group. I'm a fan of the Same Page Tool to help make sure the GM and players are all on the same page when coming into the game. When everyone is expecting the same thing out of the game, everyone tends to get along better. =) Well the most immature thing you'll ever see me type is Kappa.

Quintus said: While I don't necessarily have issues with young players, I run games for newbies much less frequently than I do for people who have taken time to read the rules and know their characters. In some cases, if I have many good applicants, I can save a lot of time and energy if I avoid players with very little, "hours played." Be sure to fill out your player profile. Be sure to keep looking for games every day (don't only look on weekends). Be friendly, and communicate with your best English. I'm having a difficult time thinking that you get kicked just because you plug in your mic, unless you have a really bad mic. Most adults will be willing to communicate any issues with you if you PM them. There are many challenges to finding a game on Roll20. You are hardly alone. If you do some forum searches, you can turn up several other threads about the same subject. Be thoughtful about what you attribute to your own self, vs what might just be the average experience for Roll20 games. Good luck to you! If you are interested, I'm willing to voice chat with you, if you think it will help nail down what the problem might be. If so, just PM me. It's just about my voice, I have a brand-new mic and it's just that they would rather not play with a mid-pubescent voice for some reason. I have been kicked from about 42 games of various kinds on Xbox in the last month, and even more on Steam. It's beginning to tick me off, though I'm usually a laid-back guy. Edit: Also, English is my first language. I am in the process of learning German.

Are most of the games played here free too? And are there any free D&D ones that would be good for a beginner at all?

Brennan B. said: Are most of the games played here free too? And are there any free D&D ones that would be good for a beginner at all? You can play here full time as a normal account - nothing is stopping you from doing as such. If you want to get into D&D remember there's several different versions of it and 3.5 is on the open license. If people are not picking you up purely on your voice, or whatever. Try and construct a campaign with the intention of acquiring other Pre-Teen and Teen alike players that would join up (Think of it as a HUB) where you can form groups or games under a DM and play whatever games you want. Report any problem people and kick as needed. This website only costs if you are willingly to part with, or are able to part with money. It's not a requirement by any standard but it does give you access to other little toys, space, forum access etc I've yet to play a game here that has had a GM ask me for money. The moment that becomes a thing I would not want to play with said person. Everyone who comes to this Website is after fun - if GM's come here looking to be paid for spending hours on a game, then that's their choice. But as far as I've experienced everythings been free. (I've chosen to pay for things, like tokens) Just know you can play almost any* RPG on this website... if you can't, find a mentor storyteller and see if they can craft or have access to sheets you need otherwise. Not all of us are D&D players and don't limit yourself to just one thing... you never know, you might find you'll have fun with other systems.

Gary "Lethan" H said: I've yet to play a game here that has had a GM ask me for money. The moment that becomes a thing I would not want to play with said person. Everyone who comes to this Website is after fun - if GM's come here looking to be paid for spending hours on a game, then that's their choice. But as far as I've experienced everythings been free. Some months ago there were several people attempting to begin for-pay campaigns. The discussions got rather heated on the issue, but the threads on the subject died down quickly, and I haven't seen new ones since. In theory, the fact that the GM is paid allows them to devote more time and resources to making the campaign better. I joined one such campaign to test that ($5/session), and I can say that I still don't feel like I'm wasting my money. I could probably find a GM willing and able to put in the same dedication for free, but what I'm getting is definitely worth what I'm paying. Of course, that was all up-front, with the price in the initial LFG post. If I joined a campaign and then money came up, it would leave a very bad taste in my mouth.

Brian said: Gary "Lethan" H said: I've yet to play a game here that has had a GM ask me for money. The moment that becomes a thing I would not want to play with said person. Everyone who comes to this Website is after fun - if GM's come here looking to be paid for spending hours on a game, then that's their choice. But as far as I've experienced everythings been free. Some months ago there were several people attempting to begin for-pay campaigns. The discussions got rather heated on the issue, but the threads on the subject died down quickly, and I haven't seen new ones since. In theory, the fact that the GM is paid allows them to devote more time and resources to making the campaign better. I joined one such campaign to test that ($5/session), and I can say that I still don't feel like I'm wasting my money. I could probably find a GM willing and able to put in the same dedication for free, but what I'm getting is definitely worth what I'm paying. Of course, that was all up-front, with the price in the initial LFG post. If I joined a campaign and then money came up, it would leave a very bad taste in my mouth. In term of 'paying to play' the only time i would personally do so would be if the GM was unable to afford a subscription (since all players in a campaign benefit from the subscription level of the GM of that campaign while in said campaign) and the campaign was to be a long one. In those circumstances i would highly urge all of the players involved, and the GM as well, to contribute what they could to make up that magic $10/month (with 4 players and a GM its only $2 a month... that wouldn't even buy you &lt;insert something of higher value here&gt;)... ...but... ... even that isn't necessary for some games. Bells and whistles are nice but not essential to an enjoyable RPG, after all most of the players here probably grew up with little more than a sheet of paper, a pencil and their imaginations to assist gameplay. As for finding a game that will tolerate your age, age is just a number, numbers are just human constructs created to help rationalise the universe and the universe could well turn out to be a petri dish in the lab of some alien for all we know... i guess i'm just saying that it doesn't matter, your ability to turn up for game sessions combined with your attitude in said sessions will define you, not the occasional squeak in your voice (which will be gone in no time anyway leaving you with a deep pleasing baritone!). Oh, and welcome to the Roll20 family... a place where the haters aren't welcome (although we do endorse inclusion....).

Ziechael said: numbers are just human constructs That's actually an intensely philosophical point. Obviously the glyph that represents the concept of "5" was created by humans, but did humans really create 5? Did we create algebra and geometry and calculus and so on, or just discover means to represent them? I remember recently reading a piece of fiction which contained a very evocative passage about how math necessarily exists, that in an empty universe, void of anything, math would spontaneously create itself. I'll be damned if I can remember which of the stories I've read recently it was located in, though. But seriously, there's an entire branch of philosophy dedicated to the question of whether humanity is responsible for the existence of numbers and math. =)

Before this gets off topic with further philosphy, we'll consider the question asked and answered...