Beginner looking for group. Character and story building are my happy places.

[open jacinth]

Hey there, my name is Sam, I am 27 and my contact is: @open jacinth

My availability tends to be open as work is my only main conflict. Sun, occasional Mon, Tues & Thurs 5-9, Saturday, 12pm-? My availability has some give to it, so I can likely go later and possibly earlier, you’ll just have to check with me first. Time zone is EST.

I’d rate my experience level as: beginner to moderate in 5E (The only system I’ve played so far).
Storytelling and creative character driven worldbuilding are my happy places, so naturally, running the game is a goal of mine. My hunch is that it would be best to get a little more gameplay experience under my belt before I dive in headlong.
I’ve played one short campaign which ended a couple of months ago and have been experimenting with building my own one-shots for fun and keeping up with a couple of actual plays in the meantime. I’m not sure I want to GM just yet, but I like the game, and want to play, so if anyone is looking to add a player short or long term, lmk, and I’ll be interested.

[toxic prism]

I’d be up to play, I’m a new player as well and have no experience actually playing, just knowledge of how the game works. I’m the same when it comes to loving world-building and the like but I’d like to try my hand as a player before diving into something more complex.

[open jacinth]

I mean, I would be willing to DM, I just don't have experience, so it might be kind of rough starting out.

[toxic prism]

Yeah, I’ve tried to DM for just my brother and found it to be sort of difficult without a good bit of structure, but one of the most fun things to me is improv. A good example would be when my brother’s character got into a brawl with a drunk townsman, he was playing as a Goliath and they were in unarmed combat. He gets initiative and blitzes this poor guy with a nat 20 haymaker, I ruled that the townsman was severely injured and temporarily paralyzed from the incident, but could be healed with lesser or greater restoration. My brother just left him there, so I made the townsman a recurring character in the tavern anytime he went there.

[open jacinth]

Oh man, that's awesome! I love improv too. If we can get a group together I think we'll have some fun.

[toxic prism]

Yeah, there’s quite a few new players, but the hardest thing I think is finding a DM. It doesn’t require experience to be one, especially if your players are new, but it’s generally a position people find daunting.

But I think it’d be pretty easy to find enough people here