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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dragonblade" data-source="post: 5794644" data-attributes="member: 2804">The red box beginner's set is an introduction to the game but not super useful long term.The Heroes of The Fallen Lands and Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms books provide a much more in-depth explanation of how to create a character, how your abilities work, and so on. That information is shared across both those books. As Klaus pointed out, the classes they offer is different, however.DMs Kit provides the basics of how a DM would run a game, design encounters and adventures and provides a pretty good sample adventure.The Monster Vault provides a lot more monsters. All of the classic D&D monsters are included along with tokens to use.The Rules Compendium is designed to be a reference book that both players and DMs can use to look up a rule during play. It duplicates some of the rules found in the DM's kit or the two "Heroes of..." books, but also has more in-depth explanations of rules not found in the other books.At a bare minimum you could theoretically game for years with just one "Heroes of..." book, the Rules Compendium, DM's Kit and Monster Vault.If your kids really like it, there are a lot of other 4th edition books out there targeted to both players and DMs. There are too many to go through and give you a pros and cons review of each one, but if one seems interesting to you, or there is a particular class or something you heard about and aren't sure where you could find it, then anyone on this forum can help you out and answer those questions.I am almost 35 and have played D&D since I was 9 years old. I have played and own extensive book collections from all 4 editions of D&D during that time span. Others on this forum have similar experience and knowledge and we'd be happy to help you out. I have a 1 and a half year old son myself and can't wait for the day that he can play with me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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