"Hold My Bear!" In-person Pickup D&D 5e Adventure

Hold My Bear! Let's do this!

Trying something new in front of strangers can be scary. But if you never start... Some times you just need to summon your courage and say something like "Hold my Beer". However, this venue doesn't allow alcohol... But their policies say nothing about "Bears"... so we'll have to settle for "Hold My Bear! Let's do this!"

< Please don't bring wild animals. Plushies are ok >

Put your newbie fears aside and come join us.
Tonight's event is just like every other Thursdays, except we'll ask dungeon masters to work some reference to bears into their games just as a fun theme.

Where: This event will be hosted at the LDS Church Building at 1939 E. Easter Ave. in Centennial, CO 80122 in a big room on the north side of the building. If you enter the building from the north side (the door with steps leading up to it), it should be just down the hall past a few closed doors and on your left. We'll have some signs that say "D&D" on doors.

A very inclusive group: While the event is at a church building, it's still NOT a religious group. There will be no religious pressuring. We're a very inclusive group of people built on Meetup and focused on "having fun playing D&D". Most attendees, historically, are not LDS church members. Please come play with us!

Venue Rules: Similar rules to when we host games at the public library:

Please be respectful of the building
Please help us clean up trash/chairs/tables at the end of the event.
No Alcohol/Tobacco/Marijuana/Vaping/Smoking/etc in the building.
Snacks are OK (and NOT required).
It's our "privilege" (Not a "right") to use the building as a venue.

Transport: Please arrange for your own transport to/from the event. Please don't assume that someone at the event will be comfortable giving a stranger a ride home... even after playing in a delightful D&D game together.

New to D&D?: Good. We all were once. Just come. No need to bring anything besides yourself. We'll set you up for the night with all you need to play and answer all your questions.

D&D Characters: We’ll be playing with level 3 characters. You are welcome to create your own level 3 character before hand (using standard published rules). Please plan to play a character of a LG, NG, or CG alignment (it just works better for a one-shot with strangers). Please also create your characters using the standard array system for attribute selection. If you're a newbie, you're welcome to just show up and we'll have some pre-generated characters you can use.
If you'd like to print your character sheet in advance, I've uploaded some to this google drive folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FQTNcVJZiqNkZbfMqtCTL5NHgl7hxf2V?usp=sharing

Attendance: The event is free to attend. Attendance is capped so we have the right amount of people. Please RSVP with a higher level of certainty than you would for an online event because we can't just reach out to the Discord community to back-fill no-shows.

It is worth waitlisting for these events! Waitlisters help me to peer-pressure players to try being a dungeon master. If you waitlist early, there's a fair (but not guaranteed) chance that we'll open up more tables.

Are you a Dungeon Master?: Players with (or without) experience are welcome to piggy-back on these events in order to leverage our reach and community of players. If you're interested in running a game during this event, either direct message DG Wiggins (the host) through the meetup app, or leave me a comment on the event saying so and I'll increase the RSVP limit and reserve us another table! The more DMs we have, the more players we can expose to the world of TTRPGs.
Note: No charging for games through us. It's all voluntary.

Bringing your kids: Meetup has an age policy that members must be at least 18 years of age. We enjoy seeing parents participate in D&D with their teens (either as players or DMs). Parents are welcome to do so provided;

You work within the meetup member policies (Found Here) AND
You and your teen BOTH actually play in the game AND
You RSVP yourself with a +1 so we can keep a good head count for RSVPs.

Please note that this is a public pick-up game. Most folks are quite pleasant but we can't guarantee anything. Demographically, attendees tend to be working or retired adults.

Feel free to ask additional questions in the event comments below.