Hello everyone. New to lemmy and out to participate.
I am about to start a dnd 5e game after maybe 10 different games of various lengths, multiple with me as DM. This one is aimed to have multiple big pdfs of extra rules, things like more spells, more feats, and some different popular homebrew’d classes. Don’t worry, I did proof read them.
However, I am not sure how to introduce all of this to my players without spending an entire session on it. Spells are one example , do I just give them the pdf and tell them to read it, or should I cut out bits and introduce them slowly?
The worst part is that I am interested in the grit and glory rules, which change quite a lot, if you go out shopping. Would you mind operating on certain rules at level one, and different ones at level two?
One of the things that I haven’t seen mentioned yet is that for mechanic changes you can drip feed the new rule sets one per session with tailored encounters to make sure they come up that session. After the players have experienced it you can talk together to see if it is working the way you want and if you should keep, tweak, or cut the homebrew rules. Then for the next session you can introduce another new set of rules. That way people can ask their questions about the rules and only have to learn one new set of rules before each session.
For anything that fits in a list or is only relevant to some classes/roles such as expanded feat or spell lists letting the players see it in advance so they can build around it would be appreciated in my groups.