Do you have anything prepared for this? Do you say, no but come back in a week?

Do you say, yes, here are four pre-gen character sheets, let’s play a random short one-shot?

Do you say, no we’d need to spend time prepping for D&D but here’s a simpler tabletop game which uses minis and dice, let’s play this right now instead? (for example, Shadowdark)

Or something else?

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    Lost Mine of Phandelver. It’s all you need to introduce them. Pre rolled characters so that amount of time is already saved and a ready-made module to run.

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      I’d argue the newer starter Dragons of Shipwreck Isle is a quicker and more interesting start for new players. It’s also not as long and requires a little less imagination imo since you’d probably be playing without a map

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        Yeah. Phandelver takes you to Lv 5 and can be a bit long. I guess it’s a nostalgia factor for me. My oldest brother introduced me to D&D with it, lol.