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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 2282922" data-attributes="member: 1465">Well, It's "D&D for dummies", so it is supposed that only dummies buy it <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /> If the writing has an ironic feeling, then I can understand the point of this book: to provide a comic relief to people who already play D&D. Otherwise, I think it's really lame...Who isn't able to start playing D&D from the Player's Handbook? Everyone I know has either (1) started from the PHB or (2) started with nothing and followed the other's people teaching. Only a very young kid *perhaps* may find the PHB too difficult, but a very young kid isn't likely to read a whole D&D for dummies either, he would just want to play NOW or forget about it. He needs a DM, not a book.If I wanted to teach the game to someone, I would invite him to play with us and let him learn by doing.If I wanted to spark an interest to someone who won't come to play yet, I'd lend him my own PHB or buy him one.A book like D&D for dummies doesn't seem to me able at all to encourage people to play D&D. At best, it satisfies someone's need to believe that the game is "difficult" and we're "smart" because we play it with ease, while the others need to study 2 books just to speak with us... bleah!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> "Dummies" series books are often intended for people who don't want to learn something but they have to learn it, for work or school reasons, and therefore they don't care about understanding how things work, they just want to be able to write down something in a programming language (for instance) and pass a school assignment quickly.The other purpose of a dummy book is to help someone who doesn't have background knowledge on the topic, and can't afford to get it. But come on, there is _no_ background knowledge you need to play a RPG!</blockquote>

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