Dungeons & DragonsD&D Starter Set: Dragons of Stormwreck Isle, for ages 12 Years & Up

If you need help learning to be a DM or just to understand how to play D&D then buy this.

Kids love it!

Everything you need to start your first campaign. The book gives detailed stat blocks, encourages you to add your own flavor as a DM and even gives bonus material to make your adventure your own. Comes with a set of dice as well. Easy to use and to understand, this made the first campaign very cost effective and quick. I went online and printed the maps for it thru DnD beyond. But that was extra that I desired for my players. If you don't, get a reusable mat, like chessex makes.

Of the best, from the best, and for the best DnD introduction! Love it!

So excited about this. Now the hard part is finding people to play with.

I used this adventure kit to learn the rules of 5e D&D and teach my kids how to play D&D (somewhat successfully on both accounts).The starter set comes with a set of dice, the short stormwreck isle adventure, a basic rules book, and some premade character sheets.The dice are nothing out of the ordinary but you'll get one of each of the 7 standard side types.The adventure, Stormwreck Isle, is a short and basic Forgotten Realms campaign. It's got a limited scope to a tiny little island but it has a handful of interesting random encounters along with some preset encounter location/dungeon(s). It's supposed to be tied fairly closely to the premade characters so the story arcs in some part follow along. It makes sense but makes the campaign a bit more rigid. I will say that the starter set does help explain DM (the person who manages the adventure) responsibilities but I imagine if someone were a brand new DM, the game would be very hard to follow. So for a starter set in general where everyone is learning at the same time this short adventure might actually swell up a fair amount of time especially on the DM part.The basic rule book is actually pretty good. Because the character sheets have all the stats and level increases baked in, the rule book trims that out. It leaves only the essentials of play in it which actually makes it an easier to navigate rule guide than even the Player's Handbook (the most basic core book you'd need to play D&D). It gets the job done and it's where I learned all the rules prior to fleshing out a 5e collection of books.Premade character sheets are included to ease entry to the game. They've already got everything related to the class and character aside from name, sex, and backstory. So you can end up owning the character if you like it but you aren't really afforded subclass options. But the adventure is only intended to take you through level 3 so no huge loss if You're just using it to learn. That said, each character sheet basically has instructions on using the character baked in including the level up process and abilities accessed at those levels. One gripe I had with the manufacturing on this though was that the ink on the character sheets themselves were so incredibly pungent/foul that when I would open the box it would make the room smell rancid. So I let the open box get aired out in front of a fan to mitigate the stink.Overall, this is a good product but you get more bang for your buck from the "Essentials Kit" which is largely the same thing but enables players to make their own characters, take on a larger adventure, and has access to more content in Forgotten Realms.

Great present for my 9 year old son. It was easy to get him into D&D. It was a good starter kit for him with plenty of character starts and everything a player needs. It has a good story with it.

Great place to start playing D&D. I have played for years and began here with my first time being a DM. I learned a lot from it.