try to find an online pdf of the player’s handbook and just give it a read! esp the new one gives you what you need to know pretty intuitively

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Pick up Heroes of the Borderlands starter set

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Jocat’s ‘Crapguide’ series synthesizes the spirit of some big topics regarding character creation like the Character Sheet and classes. You can use that for a start. But, in my head, once I got my head around proficiency and Stats, everything else came quickly

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If you know ppl who meet up and play, try sitting in on a session and watch. That’ll give you a good idea of what happens and how ppl play (spoiler, none of us know what we’re doing)

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if you feel like you don’t understand how a game actually works, i would recommend watching youtube campaigns and seeing how they usually flow! a lot of times you learn the mechanics through playing

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