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Definitely

I'll definitely look into all of this stuff you guys have mentioned. I 100% appreciate the suggestions and wisdom

Fate sounds quite fun, BESW

Crap. I've got a meeting to attend shortly

(and shadowrun, but not going to try and run that ever again...)

I really enjoyed Unisystem

Super sweet

Ah, sweet

Sweet

Personally, I do a very free-form game. Sandbox world and all that

@BESW Might be worth it

(who didn't even remember the brother in any way... bit of a dagger to the heart for her that he was so meaningless)

(they actually just found the killer)

Animal companion is her reincarnated murdered brother

She loves her character

Outside of like Munchkin

Suggestions on simpler?

@BESW Very much so lol

@BESW The "troubled player" actually specifically said "This was supposed to be a fun thing, I didn't want homework"

@Zachiel Multiple homebrew systems back in my OpenRPG days

@Zachiel SR4, GURPS, various d20 systems

I did get a bit of settling of the emotions after I thoroughly explained why I needed them to understand at least their portion of the game

@Aether Good call, I may give that a shot

You're filling my tab-bar with all kinds of goodies, thank you, BESW

mmhmm

3.5 is the only game I feel comfortable enough that I can wing it through rules I've forgotten and still have a coherent session

The main problem is the resistance I got when I told them they needed to read the book

I've played and enjoyed multiple other systems, I don't have an issue with trying something different

But really only the d12 (and possibly d4) gets left out in standard practice

@Aether Valid point

He's picked it up exceedingly quickly (he's my closest friend though and has dealt with my D&D based advances for years)

The one that's struggling more than the others, but only one of the four is not having issues at all

And the d% confusion gets me more than anything. To give the players more feel of influence in the game, I call for High/Low rolls quite often. They roll a d% and call high or low.

But still lead to downtime of running down the line looking for correct die, and then settling on the d10 instead of d8

Actually one of the more successful efforts

I tried lining them up for them by value.

For the most part, yeah

d8 seems to be what fries them the most

they just are what they are

@Zachiel Impressive... I have never once put verbiage towards the dice shapes

I'm in constant communication with my members and I'm always asking if there are things I can do better to improve their experience or ways I can help them learn the mechanics.

You guys are awesome, by the way. I appreciate the input.

4/5 of us have kid(s) so it's just when we can get together.

Anywhere from twice a week to once every other week. It's a bit sporadic.

Possibly just persistence?

I tried that but it still turned into me having to say "No, the red die"

I can post one up

I don't remember it being this drawn out of an issue when I first started (oh so many years ago), but she's not the only one that will space out on what a d20 looks like, or what a percentile means

essentially

Also, on a side/similar note, any suggestion on how to help people in recognizing the dice?