If you just want to watch people play, there’s tons of shows. Critical Role is the most famous - just keep your expectations for an actual game a bit lower, the people on the show are professionals and they are there primarily to make a good show and not just to have fun with each other.
They also have a series of short videos called Handbooker Helper where they explain different aspects of the game.
If you want to learn the mechanics interactively, I’d recommend you pick up Solasta: Crown of the Magister. It’s a 5e based video game that explains the mechanics quite well imo. It’s also played on a 3D grid, which is most likely how you will play the game irl. It’s also available on Xbox Game Pass, with crossplay with Steam and a great co-op mode with up to 4 players.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is coming out in early August (on PC at least), which is also based on 5e but I’m not sure how well it explains the rules. It will probably be a great RPG experience though.
Jesus frigging christ. I have always wanted to play a DND video game, and the moment J switch to Playstation because people say it has nerdier games and I want to move away from shooters… it’s on frigging Xbox.
there’s a ton of dnd video games. Baldur’s Gate 1, 2 are direct ruleset translations. Neverwinter night’s 1 and 2 are the same. Pathfinder has a bunch of of games using it’s ruleset as well.
Is there any turn based games for Playstation? Is that not how it works?
Also anything newer? I looked at reviews for Neverwinter nights on Playstation and the general consensus is it is awful and to avoid at all costs. They say the PC version is alright… but I am currently limited to PS5 and mobile.
If you just want to watch people play, there’s tons of shows. Critical Role is the most famous - just keep your expectations for an actual game a bit lower, the people on the show are professionals and they are there primarily to make a good show and not just to have fun with each other.
They also have a series of short videos called Handbooker Helper where they explain different aspects of the game.
If you want to learn the mechanics interactively, I’d recommend you pick up Solasta: Crown of the Magister. It’s a 5e based video game that explains the mechanics quite well imo. It’s also played on a 3D grid, which is most likely how you will play the game irl. It’s also available on Xbox Game Pass, with crossplay with Steam and a great co-op mode with up to 4 players. Baldur’s Gate 3 is coming out in early August (on PC at least), which is also based on 5e but I’m not sure how well it explains the rules. It will probably be a great RPG experience though.
Jesus frigging christ. I have always wanted to play a DND video game, and the moment J switch to Playstation because people say it has nerdier games and I want to move away from shooters… it’s on frigging Xbox.
Ugh
there’s a ton of dnd video games. Baldur’s Gate 1, 2 are direct ruleset translations. Neverwinter night’s 1 and 2 are the same. Pathfinder has a bunch of of games using it’s ruleset as well.
Is there any turn based games for Playstation? Is that not how it works?
Also anything newer? I looked at reviews for Neverwinter nights on Playstation and the general consensus is it is awful and to avoid at all costs. They say the PC version is alright… but I am currently limited to PS5 and mobile.
for ps5 your pretty stuck. I can’t think of a dnd game for a console since super nintendo.