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<blockquote data-quote="Alby87" data-source="post: 9031377" data-attributes="member: 7031244">I've started playing D&amp;D in 2020, and mastering some months later. I found that both the starter set and books were lacking in advices on how to run the game. And this is to tell a lot, saying that a complessive 900 pages (PHB+DMG+MM) or the Starter Set, made to teach new players how to play, are missing rules on how to play.Sure, we are in multimedia era, where a lot of videos exists. But a game that was sold in bookstores in 80s could not have a book to teach you to play?Tried reading some retroclones... OSE tells you &quot;Don't know how to play an RPG? Search on Internet&quot;.Then, a friend of mine showed the Red Box. Wow. How is difficulty to make a couple of booklet like those in our days? First a simple tutorial on how to play, then some the rules to create and play characters, then another small tutorial on mechanics. Then, the DM booklet, plenty of procedures: exploration, encounter, combat. Then, a first complete dungeon to teach how to dm those, then an incomplete one to teach to stock one. And no need to put QR codes to videos because information is missing in the printed booklet.D&amp;D starts again from the Red Box. I think the 2024 revision of the game should have a truly starter set (first 4 levels, player and DM tutorials, small adventure, dungeon making informations), then classic PHB-DMG-MM with all content dedicated to people which can already play thanks to the starter set.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alby87, post: 9031377, member: 7031244"] I've started playing D&D in 2020, and mastering some months later. I found that both the starter set and books were lacking in advices on how to run the game. And this is to tell a lot, saying that a complessive 900 pages (PHB+DMG+MM) or the Starter Set, made to teach new players how to play, are missing rules on how to play. Sure, we are in multimedia era, where a lot of videos exists. But a game that was sold in bookstores in 80s could not have a book to teach you to play? Tried reading some retroclones... OSE tells you "Don't know how to play an RPG? Search on Internet". Then, a friend of mine showed the Red Box. Wow. How is difficulty to make a couple of booklet like those in our days? First a simple tutorial on how to play, then some the rules to create and play characters, then another small tutorial on mechanics. Then, the DM booklet, plenty of procedures: exploration, encounter, combat. Then, a first complete dungeon to teach how to dm those, then an incomplete one to teach to stock one. And no need to put QR codes to videos because information is missing in the printed booklet. D&D starts again from the Red Box. I think the 2024 revision of the game should have a truly starter set (first 4 levels, player and DM tutorials, small adventure, dungeon making informations), then classic PHB-DMG-MM with all content dedicated to people which can already play thanks to the starter set. [/QUOTE]

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