Two full pages of looking up a new rule every other action but not a single person spends even an instant "playing a role" and instead spends the entire time talking about numbers and abilities. Wow! It really is D&D!

I swear to god that same "i swing" "you missed" "welp, that's my turn" has been in the DND play examples since AD&D

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so in the spirit of fairness I went back to look at my 2nd edition PHB and the example of play there is actually pretty ok. there's no "i swing" "you missed" "welp"

I guess I was giving the older editions short shrift. it's better than the 5e example.

Transcript is linked here: https://cohost.org/EarthShaker/post/6521674-2nd-edition-example

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I wish I'd been able to get that edit in before this got shared two hundred times because I kinda feel like a blowhard dipshit. And I know nobody's going to see this now. the cohorde has moved on.

A DM guides four players through their first adventure. The players are playing Tordek (a dwarf fighter), Mialee (an elf wizard), Jozan (a human cleric), and Lidda (a halfling rogue). These four adventurers seek the ruins of an abandoned monastery, drawn by rumors of a fabulous fire opal, supposedly hidden there by the abbot when the place was attacked.
After passing through the lifeless aboveground ruins of the monastery, the adventurers find a rubble-strewn staircase leading down.

Here’s a typical D&D game session. The adventurers are exploring the ruins of an old dwarven stronghold, now infested by monsters. The players in this session are:
Dave, the Dungeon Master;
Toby, whose character is the human fighter Ammar;
Cam, playing Isidro, a halfling rogue;
Daneen, whose character is an eladrin wizard named Serissa.

BECMI took the stance of just throwing the player reading the Player's Manual straight into an example adventure akin to a Choose Your Own Adventure book, meanwhile.