If you don't know what to do, you make something up, and it becomes the rules.”

“But ultimately we learned that if you're a new DM, you make the rules.

“I think it’s very easy to get bogged down by the intricacies of what at first looks to be 800 pages of rules,” Hidalgo says. The Starter Set comes with a single set, but because players often need to roll dice all at the same time and sharing them can get tedious. We recommend getting multiple sets online for cheap-or an entire one-pound bag if you're so inclined. This is a set of 6 to 7 multi-sided dice, which you can buy at either a game store or online. In addition to the Starter Set, you'll also need some polyhedral dice. Although any good D&D game involves one part preparation and two parts winging it, it's hard for new players to know exactly what they need to prepare, what they don't, and how they can craft a story that's fun to play.Īs Bilanko explains, the Starter Set not only solves all these issue with its pre-written story, “The Lost Mine of Phandelver,” it gives you tips and teaches you how to prepare your own story the next time around. The largest task for a new group of players is finding a DM, someone who prepares an entire world (basically writes the choose-your-own-adventure book) before anyone even sits down. “I always lean people toward the D&D Starter Set.which teaches you how to be a Dungeon Master as you're playing, and it has a rule book and pre-generated characters with backstories for everyone else who wants to play.” “We get people coming into the store all the time who aren't really sure what D&D is, but think it might be something they're interested in,” Bilanko says.

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