u/Creole3643

I've been living by myself for about 15 months now, and I've mostly been enjoying it, but I do sometimes find it a little difficult to socialise with people

My job only requires me to be in the office once a week, and even when I have been in on other days, no one else has been there in the restricted part of the building I have to work in

I am a member of a weight loss club, so I get to see people once a week then, and I usually see some friends and host a movie night once a week, sometimes I go to pub quiz or a gig, so I'm definitely not as reclusive as I've heard some people can be, but, especially if that movie night doesn't happen I can very easily spend 6 days a week in my house apart from to go shopping or to the library

How do you find people to socialise with?

If it helps, I am in my early 30s

I'm looking to watch some 5e or 5.5e actual plays that focus more on the game's mechanics and dungeoncrawling than the narrative like Critical Role or Dimension 20

Thanks for the suggestions!

I've made a few comments today with the following information, so I thought I'd just make it into a post

This is the stuff that I find useful to prepare before starting a campaign. I'm sure some of you will think this is overprepping, some probably underpreparing but at least for me, I can usually get at least 5 sessions worth from this with minimal further prep for encounter design, fleshing out NPCs and fun stuff like painting minis and making terrain. As WOTC data indicates that 7 sessions is the average length of a campaign, I think getting most of the way there is a good place to be

- a villain. Not a BBEG who is going to fight the players at level 20. A guy who is causing problems right now immediately

- a town, the important NPCs within it (most likely the town leader, innkeeper, blacksmith, general store owner, the priest, someone who can identify magic items and tell the players about the history of the area, someone from one of your factions) and the drama between them

- a larger 10 - 15 room dungeon

- 3 factions who want to get in the dungeon and don't get along with each other but all hate the villain

- 3 5 room dungeons, each with a macguffin used to get into the bigger dungeon and something connecting them to one another, like a key for a treasure chest in another or an NPC whose sibling is in another

- 10 or so single sentence locations like a circle of ancient ruins that when a rune is drawn on it grants the players a magic boon or a tree whose fruit has the properties of healing potions

- a map to put all this stuff on

- 1 or 2 locations that can be dropped in anywhere whenever you are in a panic because the players have walked out of your map or something. A hobgoblin encampment, for example

If your campaign doesn't get off the ground a lot of this can be reused whether that just be as one shots with minimal changes or if you try to re-run this campaign so in the long run it's very unlikely to go wasted

I'm hoping to run PotA setting it in Greyhawk, which my players don't know much about, so I've been trying to come up with a way to start the campaign while having them playing characters who have been largely isolated from the world so that their ignorance of the setting can be played out in the characters

Right now I'm thinking of changing the background slightly so that instead of having the cults create the devastation orbs, they were instead stolen from some some isolated tribes. The cults raided the tribe the party are from, killed their leaders and took their orb. Now the PCs are a scouting party who have been following their tracks to Hommlet (Red Larch)

Beyond using the updated monster stat blocks, is there anything you would change to the campaign?

Hey there,

I'm someone that doesn't get much of an opportunity to socialise much due to where I live however I have heard of people using MMO video games and discord to meet people

I'm not very good at games and my computer specs are below so I guess I'm looking for something that has a welcoming community - if you can suggest discord servers to join as well I would appreciate it

Operating System

Windows 11 Home Single Language 64-bit

CPU

Intel Core i5 4590 @ 3.30GHz	47 °C

Haswell 22nm Technology

RAM

16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28)

Motherboard

Dell Inc. 0WMJ54 (SOCKET 0)

Graphics

SAMSUNG (1360x768@60Hz)

2047MB Intel Arc A310 LP Graphics (Unknown)

Storage

476GB MTFDDAK512TDL-1AW1ZABHA (SATA (SSD))	37 °C

Optical Drives

TEAC DVD-ROM DV-28SW

TSSTcorp BDDVDW SE-506CB USB Device

Audio

Realtek High Definition Audio

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