Everything you need to create characters and play the new adventures in this introduction to the world’s greatest roleplaying game.

Dungeons & Dragons is a cooperative storytelling game that harnesses your imagination and invites you to explore a fantastic world of adventure, where heroes battle monsters, find treasures, and overcome quests. The D&D Essentials Kit is a new introductory product meant to bring D&D to audiences interested in jumping into a fantasy story.

This box contains the essentials you need to run a D&D game with oneDungeon Master and one to five adventurers. A newly designed rulebookon-boards players by teaching them how to make characters, and theincluded adventure, Dragon of Icespire Peak, introduces a new 1-on-1rules variant.

Contents:

64-page rulebook that teaches how to create characters of levels 1–6 and play the game. Includes the introduction of sidekick rules. Dragon of Icespire Peak™, a 64-page introductory adventure Double-sided poster map for use with the Dragon of Icespire Peak™ adventure (21” x 15”) Four-panel, folding Dungeon Master’s screen (33" × 8.5")

6 blank character sheets

11 polyhedral dice

81 cards describing magic items, sidekicks, and other D&D game elements, plus a folding box to hold all the cards

Codes for D&D Beyond, the official digital toolset for D&D