Everything you need to start playing the Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game, the game that defines the genre and has set the standard for fantasy roleplaying for more than 30 years.
Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is an imaginative, social experience that engages players in a rich fantasy world filled with larger-than-life heroes, deadly monsters, and diverse settings. As a hobby game, D&D is an ongoing activity to which players might devote hours of their time getting together with friends on a regular basis for weeks, months, or even years.
The Dungeons & Dragons Basic Game gets you started on your first adventure.
Players create heroic fantasy characters -- mighty warriors, stealthy rogues, or powerful wizards -- which they guide through a series of adventures, working together to defeat monsters and other challenges and growing in power, glory, and achievement. The game offers endless possibilities and a multitude of choices . . . more choices than even the most sophisticated computer game, because you can do whatever you can imagine!
What is a rolelpaying game?
The D&D game (as a roleplaying game) is a fantasy game of your imagination. It's part acting, part storytelling, part social interaction, part war game, and part dice rolling. You and your friends create characters that develop and grow with each adventure they complete. One player is the Dungeon Master (DM). Together, the Dungeon Master and the players make the game come alive.
What can characters do in the game?
A character can try to do anything you can imagine, just as long as it fits the scene the DM describes. Depending on the situation, your character might want to listen at a door, search an area, bargain with a shopkeeper, talk to an ally, jump across a pit, use an item, or attack an opponent.
What does the Dungeon Master do?
The Dungeon Master (DM) is the one who plays the 'bad guys'. He knows the secrets of the dungeon, controls the monsters and enemies, narrates the action, referees the game, and sets up the adventure.
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