I’m in the fortunate and privileged position of having some very long term friends in my life. Unfortunately, we’re now spread across the country. We’d like to try and keep our social connection by playing a TTRPG over zoom or something.
I have never played a TTRPG before. I really got into Disco Elysium and that’s got me interested in TTRPGs. Other friends have been interested for years but no one’s bothered to try and organize something. So all of us have zero experience with running an actual game. And no one to guide us through it who has experience.
I’m looking for recommendations for a TTRPG for us get started on. Needs to work over Zoom. I’d say the most important aspect is that it’s fun and social. “Fun” sounds like an obvious one but the reality is I have one shot to make playing TTRPGs “stick” with this group. If my friends don’t have a great time with it we’ll probably not play after this.
Happy to answer any questions about myself or my group that would help you come up with a recommendation.
I recently ran my first game of The Witch is Dead for my kids’ first game and we had a blast. You play as woodland creatures trying to avenge the death of a friendly witch. It has simple, one page rules so you don’t get bogged down flipping through a book trying to find stuff. It also has a little chart you can use to give you some basic points for your adventure, but it’s fine if you make your own thing up.
Another one page game you might want to check out is Everyone is John. I haven’t played it yet, but from what I’ve seen it tends to get kind of dark since everyone is a competing personality trying to control John.