I’ve never played D&D before and I don’t know anyone who does. I want to get into it but I can’t figure out where to find the rules I need. Is there a free version of the rules that I can learn before I invest like $150 in the books?
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3Depending on your familiarity, these may be of use: I'm at a loss with “Dungeons and Dragons.” How does one play it, anyway?, What is role-playing, and where do I start?. There's probably also a lot of useful questions between the linked and related there too. – Someone_Evil Apr 02 '22 at 23:58
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1Oh, and Welcome to RPG.SE and to the hobby! Take the [tour] if you haven't already and see the [help] or ask us here in the comments (use @ to ping someone) if you need more guidance. Good Luck and Happy Gaming! – Someone_Evil Apr 02 '22 at 23:58
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@Trish “Recommend the material required to learn the rules of D&D” is worlds apart from “recommend me a cool D&D adventure”. – Thomas Markov Apr 03 '22 at 13:11
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4Does this answer your question? I'm at a loss with “Dungeons and Dragons.” How does one play it, anyway? – Raj Apr 04 '22 at 12:08
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The Basic Rules can be found here at the D&D website or here on D&D Beyond. Notably, the Basic Rules compendium at D&D Beyond contains the rules from the Basic Rules pdf as well as some additional material from the Systems Reference Document.
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2D&D Beyond's so-called "Basic Rules" are not the same as the actual Basic Rules document. Just look at the classes they contain; the actual Basic Rules contains only Cleric, Fighter, Rogue, and Wizard while D&D Beyond's "Basic Rules" contains all but Artificer. The top of D&D Beyond's Basic Rules states: "This section contains the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rules and the rules in the SRD, released as part of the Open Gaming License.". D&D Beyond calls it the "Basic Rules" but it contains significantly more information than the Basic Rules document – Exempt-Medic Apr 02 '22 at 23:45
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3I think an explanation of what the basic rules/srd contains, or more specifically don't contain, would be very useful. If you have the capacity, a primer for what to read to get started would be excellent, but that's arguably going above and beyond – Someone_Evil Apr 02 '22 at 23:50
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@Someone_Evil Watching basketball tonight. My wife is a Chapel Hill grad. Might be able to put something together later though. – Thomas Markov Apr 02 '22 at 23:53