Dungeons & Dragons Essentials Kit

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Main articles: Adventure (Dungeons & Dragons) and Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings A Dungeon Master's notebook with a custom design adventure Dungeons & Dragons' FAST Channel Launches Today". Gizmodo. November 14, 2023 . Retrieved November 14, 2023. D&D Basic Set". Rulebooks and Sets. acaeum.com. Archived from the original on June 24, 2011 . Retrieved May 16, 2013. Cook, Monte. "The Open Game License as I See It, Part II". montecook.com. Archived from the original on April 17, 2007 . Retrieved March 15, 2007.

Chancey, Tyler (November 22, 2022). "Wizards Clarifies One D&D Third Party Support". TechRaptor . Retrieved November 26, 2022.

Baird, Scott (December 3, 2017). "15 Things You Didn't Know About The Disastrous Dungeons & Dragons Movie". Screen Rant . Retrieved February 25, 2020. Witwer, Michael; Newman, Kyle; Witwer, Sam (2018). Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana: A Visual History. Ten Speed Press. ISBN 9780399580949.a b c Slavicsek, Bill; Baker, Richard W. (2005). Dungeons and Dragons for Dummies. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley. pp.268, 293, 363. ISBN 0-7645-8459-6. OCLC 57574631. Main articles: Dungeons & Dragons gameplay and Character class (Dungeons & Dragons) D&D uses polyhedral dice to resolve in-game events. These are abbreviated by a 'd' followed by the number of sides. Shown from left to right are a d20, a d12, a d%, a d10, a d8, a d6, and a d4. A d% and a d10 can be rolled together to produce a number between 1 and 100. Hall, Charlie (July 23, 2018). "Dungeons & Dragons gets a major crossover with Magic: The Gathering this fall". Polygon . Retrieved April 26, 2020.

The early success of D&D led to a proliferation of similar game systems. Despite the competition, D&D has remained the market leader in the role-playing game industry. [12] [13] In 1977, the game was split into two branches: the relatively rules-light game system of basic Dungeons & Dragons, and the more structured, rules-heavy game system of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as AD&D). [14] [15] [16] AD&D 2nd Edition was published in 1989. In 2000, a new system was released as D&D 3rd edition, continuing the edition numbering from AD&D; a revised version 3.5 was released in June 2003. These 3rd edition rules formed the basis of the d20 System, which is available under the Open Game License (OGL) for use by other publishers. D&D 4th edition was released in June 2008. [17] The 5th edition of D&D, the most recent, was released during the second half of 2014. [13] Dungeon Crawl Classics". Goodman Games. Archived from the original on March 24, 2007 . Retrieved March 20, 2007. Dungeons & Dragons is a structured yet open-ended role-playing game. It is normally played indoors with the participants seated around a tabletop. Typically, one player takes on the role of Dungeon Master (DM) while the others each control a single character, representing an individual in a fictional setting. [24] When working together as a group, the player characters (PCs) are often described as a " party" of adventurers, with each member often having their own area of specialty that contributes to the success of the group as a whole. [25] [26] During the course of play, each player directs the actions of their character and their interactions with other characters in the game. [7] This activity is performed through the verbal impersonation of the characters by the players, while employing a variety of social and other useful cognitive skills, such as logic, basic mathematics and imagination. [27] A game often continues over a series of meetings to complete a single adventure, and longer into a series of related gaming adventures, called a " campaign". [7] [28] [29]The wargames from which Dungeons & Dragons evolved used miniature figures to represent combatants. D&D initially continued the use of miniatures in a fashion similar to its direct precursors. The original D&D set of 1974 required the use of the Chainmail miniatures game for combat resolution. [63] By the publication of the 1977 game editions, combat was mostly resolved verbally. Thus, miniatures were no longer required for game play, although some players continued to use them as a visual reference. [64] Plante, Corey. "D&D's community is up in arms over a controversial change". Inverse . Retrieved January 10, 2023. What Is D&D?". Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on November 12, 2005 . Retrieved February 21, 2007. Svensson, Peter (July 21, 2008). "Dungeons & Dragons reborn". Associated Press. Archived from the original on August 22, 2008 . Retrieved November 17, 2008.

Sofge, Erik (March 10, 2008). "With Dungeons & Dragons, Gary Gygax created a monster". Slate Magazine . Retrieved June 11, 2020. Gygax, Gary (1979). Dungeon Masters Guide. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR. p.114. ISBN 0-935696-02-4. OCLC 13642005. Mona, Erik. "From the Basement to the Basic Set: The Early Years of Dungeons & Dragons". The MIT Press. Archived from the original on November 4, 2014 . Retrieved May 6, 2009. Waskul, Dennis; Lust, Matt (2004). "Role-Playing and Playing Roles: The Person, Player, and Persona in Fantasy Role-Playing". Symbolic Interaction. 27 (3): 333–356. doi: 10.1525/si.2004.27.3.333. ISSN 1533-8665. Change of D&D Beyond Ownership". D&D Beyond ( Press release). April 22, 2022 . Retrieved May 11, 2022.Gygax, Gary (December 1978). "Dungeons & Dragons: What Is It and Where Is It Going?". The Dragon #21. TSR. III (8): 29–30. ISSN 1062-2101. Smith, Rich (January 17, 2023). "A Big Change Could Be Coming for Hasbro: Should Investors Worry?". The Motley Fool . Retrieved January 17, 2023. Tweet, Jonathan (May 20, 2004). "What Are D&D Miniatures?". Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on June 6, 2004 . Retrieved February 28, 2007. Peterson, Jon. Playing at the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People and Fantastic Adventures, from Chess to Role-Playing Games. San Diego: Unreason, 2012. ISBN 978-0-615-64204-8. Following an apology issued by Wizards of the Coast for offensive and racist material included in Spelljammer: Adventures in Space and the announced revisions to the product in September 2022, Christopher Perkins – Wizards' game design architect – announced a new inclusion review process for the Dungeons & Dragons studio in November 2022. [124] [125] [126] This process will now require "every word, illustration, and map" to be reviewed at several steps in development "by multiple outside cultural consultants prior to publication". [127] The previous process only included cultural consultants at the discretion of the product lead for a project. All products being reprinted will also go through this new review process and be updated as needed. [128] [125] [127] 2024 revision [ edit ]