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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scribble" data-source="post: 5379541" data-attributes="member: 23977">The redbox is designed essentially for someone completely new to gaming, who also probably doesn't have anyone teaching them the ropes...  The user can play a choose your own adventure scenario, to build his/her chacter, and then there is an adventure that the user can either run for friends, or have someone run for him/her.There is also some info on creating another adventure on your own.It has dice, and some tokens, and maps which are cool...It's not really intended as a continued use product though, more a teaching aid for someone with absolutely no experience.Since it sounds like you have some gaming experience under your belt it seems like you might want to just jump into the main Essentials stuff.For players that would be:A copy of either Heroes of the Fallen Lands or Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms, or both.Each book has rules for different character types, but can be used independently of each other.For the DM:The monster vault- Contains a bunch of "classic" monsters, and an adventure. it also has tokens to use depicting the monsters at the table.The DM's kit... It is more advice based, but has lots of good advice, and a few extra rules... It also has a screen, and an adventure. I think it's somewhat optional, although helpful.For both:A copy of the Rules Compendium is somewhat optional... It's a good source for pretty much all the non character specific rules of the game in an easy to use format. Most of (all of?) the rules though are found throughout the other books. You probably only need one for your table.Hope that helps!</blockquote>

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