Welcome to the Red Dragon Inn. I love play by post and hope you will enjoy our game. You are certainly welcome to join the game. You can send me a personal message if you want through the site if you want - it will likely be the easiest way to get thigns set up. The first question I have is simple - how much 5e experience do you have? Some folks I can just say "go make a character" and others need a bit more help. Either is ok.
The party is third level at the moment - and fighting for their lives. (Why does everyone always ring the doorbell on every dungeon? Do they really think the monsters won't respond intelligently?) I would suggest reading the first post in the Q&A thread as well as the start of the main game thread. You are certainly welcome to read them all (Or maybe just my posts since they incorporate much of what the players wrote.) to get caught up but that might be a lot. But at least check out the first couple to see how we are doing things. I believe it is the top of the Q&A that will give you some basic game function stuff. We do have the characters set up on the D&D Beyond site becaue it is an easy place to look them all up, but that isn't strictly necessary. I can get you a link for our campaign.
So . . .what type of character do you want to run?
****The rest of you - posts are still needed. We do not need to wait for the new player. He will get put into the campaign as soon as he is ready and I have a good spot. For now, you need to survive this fight if he is going to have a party to join.