D&D Essentials Kit

I started my journey into this with the D&D Essentials Kit which was recommended to me by my friend Ben (@MarcianTobay). When I said I wanted to a campaign and didn't know anything he got excited. Comma very.

Link to Buy

The Kit includes dice, a basic rulebook, a quest (Dragon of IceSpire Peak), and a lot of cardboard cards. The cards are things like initiative order (1-9), some magical items, conditions, and sidekicks*.

All very useful for an in-person game. My game is not.

In retrospect, for my purposes, this was probably not a good buy but if you're pulling a new game together from nothing and living people coming over I would recommend it. Having a physical object to hold is great and helps sort out all of the differing things you need to remember.

I will say, and will go into this more later I'm sure, but with almost no background in D&D the manual only makes sense about 78% of the time. Maybe it's because there's so much to learn. Or maybe because it's meant to be referenced and not read cover to cover. Regardless, I immediately had to go online and do a google search for almost every term and mechanic.

Thank god you nerds out there are ready to answer my questions.

I'm gonna have a lot.