Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set (Dungeons & Dragons Starter Kit): Fantasy Roleplaying Game Starter Set

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The Library of Candlekeep was one of the most important locations in the early Baldur's Gate video games, and it appears again in this campaign. For an unusual but still beginner-friendly campaign, The Wild Beyond The Witchlight is unrivaled, especially for those looking for a non-traditional adventure.

Having a map, even a basic one (I played on a dry erase map with simple markers for years) can help a player understand where they are quickly and with little confusion. The Moldvay Basic Set was immediately followed by the accompanying release of an Expert Set edited by Dave Cook with Steve Marsh that supported character levels four through fourteen, with the intent that players would continue with the Expert Set.

For the more ambitious beginners happy to start with a longer more serious campaign, Curse of Strahd is among the best. Is it going to be a combat-heavy dungeon-crawl requiring strategy and wits, or a character-driven jaunt through a mystical world? Without having to worry too much about how the campaign flows from session to session, they can instead prioritize getting things right minute to minute. Lost Mine of Phandelver uses the more complex, experience-points-based level up system, but this has been replaced with the milestone-based option. During the gameplay the DM should have the rulebook (considering he's a beginner) so it'd be very impractical to share it with two other players.

In their first session, characters will face combat, navigate the game’s exploration and social interaction mechanics, and get a general taste of how to play Dungeons and Dragons fifth edition. It addresses an issue often brought up by newcomers regarding the accuracy of the game's title, and just to keep everyone happy, this is an adventure that features dragons. The game also provides plenty of tips to both players and Dungeon Masters alike, providing cues such as “yes and…” narrative events for the DM to get involved with and how to improvise things such as ability checks on the fly. The main issue to keep in mind when running this chapter is that level one characters are easily killable.

In addition to the Shadowfell and travel to other planes, there's also a treasure map hidden in the book that not all players will find. The book was predrilled for use in a three-ringed binder, and the complete set of polyhedral dice came in a heat-sealed bag with a small wax crayon to use in coloring the numbers on the dice.

Sure, the dice are a nice, pretty blue pearloid color (they seem to be identical to the ones that shipped with the original fifth edition starter set), but there’s only one set of six dice, and there isn’t even an extra d10 for percentage rolls.

While a single encounter can last a few hours at the table, a published campaign book might last a few months to a year — or more — with regular play.

Hall was disappointed in the quality level of the cardboard components where he thought the DM screen was "flimsy" and the cards "a bit sloppy. Another thing the set comes with, is 5 pre written character sheets complete with detailed descriptions of abilities, background on the race the character uses and a general summary of what their goals are in Phandalin and its surrounding are. A graduate of both the Technological University of Dublin for Creative Digital Media and a Masters in Creative Writing from Dublin City University.From the ever-popular Kobold Press come not one, but two anthologies of one-shots, 24 adventures in all, and this is an adventure from the second volume. It included a 32-page rulebook for playing characters level 1–5, a 64-page adventure module ( Lost Mine of Phandelver), five pre-generated characters and dice.