Played a bit years ago for about 6 months in person, have never played online. Starting with a player from scratch; built one on D20 as it seemed like it would be the simplest and tried to join a few games - their d20 or discord servers have absolutely oceans of varied rules and restrictions to dig through and many want you to roll up a character for their specific game within certain rules. I’m sure their rules and restrictions are in place for a good reason, many of them I don’t even understand, but for someone just trying to get a basic character going for a basic story to get into the swing of D&D are there better places to look for us simple folks who are trying to learn/remember as much how to play and need things kept relatively simple at this point?
Best way to get into a game isn’t to join those massive servers. It’s to go to a site like Roll20 and look for games and just apply. You’ll find a game eventually with a handful of people. Doesn’t always work but it’s worked fine for me so far.
Thanks, yes I did some applications, I guess it makes sense as a DM to find fit for your group, just a bit demoralizing to not hear back, PTSD from job hunt…
yeee, you’ll get a lot of no-responses for plenty of reasons. Never take it personally though because… well they don’t know you.