I've never played any BG nor DnD. I do know vaguely some basics about DnD. I got the game to play with a friend. How difficult is it going to be for me to get used to? Should I read up on anything beforehand? I play mostly single player RPGs like fallout, mass effect, and occasional turned based stuff like FF, isometric stuff.

[–] iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You may want to read up on basic terms for D&D. Thus game relies heavily on that jargon to describe game mechanics.

For example AC is Armor Class and the value defines how difficult you are to hit. Not to be confused with Air Conditioning or Assasins Creed.

As with D&D there are no set-in-stone archetypes. A fighter can focus on throwing rocks to be ranged or a sorcerer can do their damndest to be a melee player. Classes and races do have innate traits that lend themselves better to other roles and synergies.

[–] canthidium@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Air Conditioning or Assasins Creed.

Lmao.

Ok seems simple enough. I'm familiar with class based RPGs. I'll probably check out some getting started videos before diving in. Thanks a lot!

[–] Magiwarriorx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Assuming you haven't already, Jocat's "Crap Guide to D&D" series is an entertaining little primer! IIRC the most relevant one would be the character sheet episode, followed by the individual class episodes.

[–] canthidium@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I'll check it out.

[–] o_oli@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It starts pretty gentle and has plenty of tooltips.

Ultimately as well like if you're in combat it's turn based, if you don't mind tabbing out to look things up every now and then I don't think you will run into too many problems.

Probably wouldn't hurt to watch a 5-10 minute D&D gameplay overview on youtube before though just so you know what to expect.