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<blockquote data-quote="UnknownAtThisTime" data-source="post: 5379650" data-attributes="member: 94582">I have a strong opinion on this. &nbsp;I think you should skip the red box and buy the DM Kit, the Monster Vault, and &quot;The Dungeon&quot; set of Dungeon Tiles. &nbsp;This will be enough for you to do more than get your feet wet. You can essentially play through &quot;two&quot; modules of content with the material above. The adventures are &quot;relatively&quot; straight forward and require minimal prep time. &nbsp;I spent literally 30 minutes for example reading the adventure included in the MV, and feel I could DM it easily with just the materials I listed above and on the fly. (The MV adventure is an abbreviated crawl, not a full size adventure).&nbsp;All three of those products will set you back a total of $53.00 from Amazon. &nbsp;That being said, the Red Box is $13 at Amazon. If you are that concerned with making a large investment in something you are unsure of, the red box is the way to go because it is absurdly affordable.&nbsp;&nbsp;EDIT:&nbsp; I should clarify why I include the &quot;Dungeon&quot; set of Dungeon Tiles, when it is obviously not a requirement to play the game.&nbsp;&nbsp; A) I am pretty sure you can build every map in the Monster Vault adventure using that large included map and a extra tiles from &quot;The Dungeon&quot;.&nbsp; If you chose to play this adventure to get your feet wet, you would require no additional mapping solution(whiteboard, graph pad, etc).&nbsp; It would be quite an elegant intro to the game.B) I think it is a great value for $13.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; At this price point, it is actually quite a cheap solution.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="UnknownAtThisTime, post: 5379650, member: 94582"] I have a strong opinion on this. I think you should skip the red box and buy the DM Kit, the Monster Vault, and "The Dungeon" set of Dungeon Tiles. This will be enough for you to do more than get your feet wet. You can essentially play through "two" modules of content with the material above. The adventures are "relatively" straight forward and require minimal prep time. I spent literally 30 minutes for example reading the adventure included in the MV, and feel I could DM it easily with just the materials I listed above and on the fly. (The MV adventure is an abbreviated crawl, not a full size adventure). All three of those products will set you back a total of $53.00 from Amazon. That being said, the Red Box is $13 at Amazon. If you are that concerned with making a large investment in something you are unsure of, the red box is the way to go because it is absurdly affordable. EDIT: I should clarify why I include the "Dungeon" set of Dungeon Tiles, when it is obviously not a [B]requirement[/B] to play the game. A) I am pretty sure you can build every map in the Monster Vault adventure using that large included map and a extra tiles from "The Dungeon". If you chose to play this adventure to get your feet wet, you would require no additional mapping solution(whiteboard, graph pad, etc). It would be quite an elegant intro to the game. B) I think it is a [B]great[/B] value for $13. At this price point, it is actually quite a cheap solution. [/QUOTE]

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