Unfortunately my D&D group stopped playing together in the late 90s. Half of them are dead now, the others are hundreds of miles away. I get my D&D fix from cRPGs. I'm considering online play, but I have a weird work schedule, and would have to get up to speed on the "how to" of online play. This build, all of my builds are for BG3, so 10 levels max for now.
Oh and thanks for your reply.
We had a player that has a story similar to yours. He found tiresome to have to meet a new group, learn new rules, use a new app, etc He just entered a one-shot because his 12yo kid wanted to play and he has to DM his kids and he wanted to know the "how-to"s of r20
... And now he is in his second campaign online.
Look, there are pages like
https://app.roll20.net/lfg/search/ where you can find games to play online. You can pick "Games that welcome newbie players" and "free to play" as an option and now with the COVID situation, there are plenty of people doing one-shots and helping people on how to play online.
Just try one one-shot, 2-3 hours session, no strings attached. Do you like it? great! You don´t? At least you know now.
There are several options to play online and forget the work and the usual nonsense, with different schedules ( There are groups with working people, with kids, retired, etc), from different games (Pathfinder, Starfinder, Anima, TDE, Cyberpunk, Shadowrun, Resurgir del Dragón, etc) and weekly, bi-weekly, play-by-post, etc.
and different platforms, from roll20 to Fantasy grounds in Steam, games played in Discord or Epic table, etc.
