How to Pitch Your D&D Group on a New Game [new system] | Mike Mearls (www.youtube.com)

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It's always tricky to get people to try a new TTRPG. Here's what has worked for me.

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[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago

I've been pretty negative on Mearls for a long time. Back when I still played D&D it always felt like between him and Crawford, he was the one always speaking up with nonsense whereas Crawford was the thoughtful designer. And he was still in charge of D&D during the period that I lost interest with the game in part due to the longer-term direction of the game and in part due to retroactive changes made to existing material.

But I've been watching his new YouTube channel a bit lately, and it's not bad. This one was particularly interesting.

[-] eerongal@ttrpg.network 1 points 5 days ago

fwiw, i think mearls usually gets kind of a bad rap online because he usually has some pretty questionable hot take answers to things on platforms like twitter. I've actually met him in person a few times and played D&D with him; He's an extremely nice person, and a very good DM. i think he's just not so good at his own personal PR online.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago

I've never doubted that he's a good person and I'm not at all surprised to hear he's a good GM. I just questioned his game design skills.

But yes, I think you may be right that a large part of that comes down to his social media prowess...or lack thereof.

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