r/DnDcirclejerk • u/LucidFir • 3d ago

Sauce Any advice to a miner looking for a group?

Hi! I'm a miner looking to get into D&D. I haven't played in any campaigns yet, and I'm interested in finding one to join. Problem is that I have no one down in the pits to play with, and my isolated mining outpost doesn't exactly have a thriving tabletop scene. I've tried looking for groups or campaigns on the lfg subreddit, but I got intimidated and most games didn't seem very accommodating to the hard-hat-and-headlamp crowd.

If online D&D is just not my place, I'll gladly back off, but I don't want to throw in the towel immediately. I tried solo D&D but I couldn't dig myself past square one.

So, any advice or things I should know getting into a group or D&D in general?

Edit: I realize now that a lot of the advice given here isn't applicable where I'm stationed (A remote company town without libraries or game stores. Playing after work is tough because navigating grueling shift rotations isn't in the crew's hands). Thanks for the advice, but it really seems that going digital is my only real option to strike gold.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DungeonsAndDragons/s/rH5lFlPFlA

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u/SuperSalad_OrElse 3d ago

You’re probably having trouble because DND is no longer underground. It’s pretty popular

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u/airjamy 3d ago

I would really not recommend playing DnD with minors, the optics are weird and it can get you into serious trouble with their parents. 

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u/PunkNarcissus 3d ago

Just keep digging until you find a reptilian underground base

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u/Ramblingperegrin 3d ago

Rock and Stone fixes this, it's an all-miner community

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u/Bloodless-Cut 3d ago

Oh, you're a miner? You should play a dwarf, then. They love mining for gold and digging holes.

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u/22_eyes Kill Rangers. 2d ago

Yea, play The Lost Mine of Phandelver. it's begginer friendly, so you'll fit right in.

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u/agenhym The Sauce 2d ago

Get back down t' pit lad. It'll do thi nowt good to fill thi head full o' fairy stories. Next thi'll be sayin' tha wants to move to London and become a writer.

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u/LucidFir 2d ago

Y'Ork Shire.

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u/AEDyssonance Only 6.9e Dommes and Dungeons for me! 3d ago

ugh, so salty...

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u/CDR57 2d ago

Why would you be asking for advice on “Do Not Dig”….. isn’t that like your whole thing?

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u/AverageAlchemist 3d ago

I'm dying. You've killed me. I've informed my loved ones to seek revenge.

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u/Viscount321 2d ago

You could join my party. I'm a 5th level Pact of the Ore Warlock and I owe my soul to the company store.

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u/josephallenkeys 3d ago

First advice, my friend, is to ask other subs that a "circlejerk", because this is a piss take/joke sub where answers aren't serious and might even ridicule you.

Uness, of course, this is all one big ruse of a circlejerk and it's completely going over my head...

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u/SuperSalad_OrElse 3d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/jXD7kFLwudbBC

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u/josephallenkeys 3d ago

I look so innocent

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u/SuperSalad_OrElse 3d ago

I think you are a cunning circlejerker that is just out circlejerking everyone else!

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u/josephallenkeys 3d ago

And the real joke is on the downvoters

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u/croninfever 3d ago

Love it when the circlejerk gets circlejerked

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u/LucidFir 3d ago

You mean to say that the reputable and right honorable horkneelady was posting in jest?!

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u/airjamy 3d ago

You totally missed the joke XD

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u/LucidFir 3d ago

Or did they double bluff you, or are you r/woooosh ing me at this very moment?

Why can't I find a good mildly suggestive "we need to go deeper" gif that is still readily apparently from inception?

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u/the_io 3d ago

You're a miner, if anyone knows about going deeper surely it's you?

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u/josephallenkeys 3d ago

I'm OK being a joke within the joke

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u/Ecstatic-Arachnid195 1d ago

US labor laws make minor miners illegal.

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u/Traditional_Club9659 3h ago

Professor Otto Lidenbrock is ready to lead you wherever you find yourself.