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Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Game: The Adventure Begins Now : Everything You Need to Play (Dungeons & Dragons Set)

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Buyers Beware! This is NOT the ADVANCED Dungeons & Dragons manual, as is stated in the title description above. It is in fact a very simplified version of the BASIC Dungeons & Dragons manual. It is not in hardbacked book form, but comes in a box with some flimsy paper rulebooks. Which is all OK, but note that these rules are clearly aimed at people - children, in fact - completely new to D&D, indeed to the whole idea of roleplaying games. If, like me, you were looking to start generating your own characters with some new players, you won't find those rules in here. All the characters are pre-generated and are somewhat middle-of-the-(ancient cobblestone)-road. Still, it found some use: for my two younger siblings (six and nine), who found it was a fun starting point!

This is AD&D at the spot where it all started. Remember the old basic, advanced, and experts rulebooks back from '79? Remember First Quest? The package does have its flaws ( minor, at their worst - after all, if this is your first experience with AD&D, you won't even take notice), but since this deserves a very warm place in every AD&Der's heart, it deserves enough stars to go through the roof ( 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 trillion should suffice).

Oh, right, what is AD&D. AD&D stands for Advanced Dungeons and Dragons - dragons for the greatest creatures to ever roam our fantasies and dungeons where all sorts of fantasy games started( and where this particular package puts you). The game is played as a sort of collective fantasy - role playing. You make a character, someone prepairs your adventures and you explore. You can't possibly run out of ideas for the game - if you noticed Amazon carries some 700 items on the topic. TSR turned to the place where it cannot possibly fail - release its greatest classic all over again. Let's hope they succeed.

My only gripe? Paul Jaquay's picture on the front of the box is trimmed too much.

This box set is a great way to introduce new players to the game. It is particularly good for younger players. Drawbacks, there's a few. A Dungoen Master's screen is included, but it is rather small and you will soon find that you need a larger screen. And the included adventures, though very much fun, start the player characters at level 2. Personnally I prefer to start at the begining. Which may require a little thought, or some on-line probing, to come up with good first level adventures.

However, this does provide everything you need to begin a life time of adventure, and includes 4 very good adventures, so it easily earns 4 stars.

Enjoy the choas, adventure, and joyful insanity that role-playing in the AD&D universe will bring you!

This is an awesome beginning to the D&D game. I have been playing for five years now and it always seemed to complicated to play quickly and for fun. This "resets" how the game is played, and is extremely easy for anyone to understand.

Hate to say but D&D is about as much fun as AD&D. In other words for those that don't know what I'm talking about: D&D=Dungeons & Dragons (very basic) AD&D=Advanced Dugeons & Dragons (very complecated)