Tell your DM that the PHB has the rules for combat in it so that it the primary book used for most playing - that and the MM.
The DMG really has information on how a DM can/should run the game, things to consider, how to develop "settings", and of course magic items (but at 1st level that is really not a big deal since 1st level characters generally have nothing more than perhaps some potions and scrolls.
The SRD is handy for electronic reference and should fill the gap until you get the hard cover books.
The reason the MM is really important, other than the data on monsters themselves is that it has a lot of information on "types" and monster special abilities.
As pointed out before paladins and monks have a restriction on multiclasing.
Prestige classes are a special kind of multiclassing that does not count towards the xp penalty associated with multiclassing (see PHB 60 covers the penalty).
There are many, many electronic character sheets out there. I suggest using one of them for character generation.
Most are free, some are free for a while, some cost (usually only around $15 or so US dollars).
My personal favorite sheet is The One Sheet. You can use it for free up to level 6 and it has imbedded into it all the information from the SRD (that is the OGC stuff). It is very easy to use and full of detail. It is an excel sheet though, so if you don't like (or have acess to that software) then this isn't for you.
Here is the link to its site:
http://theonlysheet.com/
Here is a link to a site that is pretty much “The” depository for character sheets of genres. You can search through it to find one that you like better.
http://www.rpgsheets.com/cgi-bin/arcdb.cgi?cat=79&sec=1
The DMG really has information on how a DM can/should run the game, things to consider, how to develop "settings", and of course magic items (but at 1st level that is really not a big deal since 1st level characters generally have nothing more than perhaps some potions and scrolls.
The SRD is handy for electronic reference and should fill the gap until you get the hard cover books.
The reason the MM is really important, other than the data on monsters themselves is that it has a lot of information on "types" and monster special abilities.
As pointed out before paladins and monks have a restriction on multiclasing.
Prestige classes are a special kind of multiclassing that does not count towards the xp penalty associated with multiclassing (see PHB 60 covers the penalty).
There are many, many electronic character sheets out there. I suggest using one of them for character generation.
Most are free, some are free for a while, some cost (usually only around $15 or so US dollars).
My personal favorite sheet is The One Sheet. You can use it for free up to level 6 and it has imbedded into it all the information from the SRD (that is the OGC stuff). It is very easy to use and full of detail. It is an excel sheet though, so if you don't like (or have acess to that software) then this isn't for you.
Here is the link to its site:
http://theonlysheet.com/
Here is a link to a site that is pretty much “The” depository for character sheets of genres. You can search through it to find one that you like better.
http://www.rpgsheets.com/cgi-bin/arcdb.cgi?cat=79&sec=1