Intended to offer an easier entry point to 4E D&D, the line kicked off with the boxed Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set (2010) - whose cover looks almost exactly like Frank Mentzer's iteration of the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rules (1983). Shannon Appelcline noted that "Wizards' final major expansion of 2010, Essentials, was the biggest change for D&D since the 2008 release of the 4E rules. The 2010 Starter Set was referred to as the "Red box" edition. It also included two adventures – one designed for solo-play and one designed for group play (called The Twisting Halls). The box set included two booklets (a 32-page book for players and a 64-page book for Dungeon Masters), two sheets of die-cut tokens for characters and monsters, dice, and cardstock character sheets and power cards. This new Starter Set was released on September 7, 2010. Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy Roleplaying Game Starter Set (red box cover)
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A PDF version of these Quick Start Rules was made available for free download. The 2008 Starter Set was referred to as the "Blue box" edition due to its cover. This box set included an introductory version of the 4th Edition rules (a 16-page Quick Start Rules booklet and a 64-page Dungeon Master's Book), dice, three sheets of double-sided map tiles, 50 tokens (to represent characters and monsters) and an adventure module called Beneath the Village of Harken. Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Starter Set (blue box cover) įollowing the release of the new 4th Edition Player's Handbook, Monster Manual, and Dungeon Master's Guide in June 2008, the Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Starter Set was released on October 21, 2008.
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It included a booklet on how to create characters for new players, a trade paperback version of the Player’s Handbook, and a set of dice.
This starter set was advertised as a sequel to the Basic Game (2006). In 2007, Wizards of the Coast published the Dungeons & Dragons Player's Kit. The characters, the content of the adventure, and the miniatures were almost entirely different from the 2004 edition. It was known as the "Blue Dragon Edition" due to the blue dragon on its cover. Then in 2006, a new edition of Dungeons & Dragons Basic Game was released.
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Similar to the 3rd Edition starter set, this set included quick start rules, a full rulebook, and an adventure but it also included 16 painted plastic miniatures, double-sided map tiles, and a set of dice. It was known as the "Black Dragon Edition" due to the black dragon on its cover.
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In 2004, Dungeons & Dragons Basic Game was published as an simplified version of game in the form of a board game that was compatible with the full version of v3.5. Īfter the revision to 3rd Edition (known as v3.5) was published in 2003, three more starter sets were published. It included a 32-page rulebook, a 48-page adventure book, 32 pages of reference, a map, two pages of tokens and a "Read This First" sheet. In 2000, the 3rd Edition version of Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Game was released.
This set also included dice, a dice bag and pre-generated characters but did not include an audio CD. Similar to the previous starter sets, it included a simplified ruleset up to the 3rd level, an adventure book, and a Dungeon Master's Screen. in 1997 and in 1999 they published the last starter set for the 2nd edition, the Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Game. : 97 The main difference in this new edition was that it included The Book of Lairs and did not include an audio CD. Then in 1995, this starter set was re-released with new artwork and re-titled as the Introduction to Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Game. In 1994, First Quest: The Introduction to Role-Playing Games was released. It was an introductory AD&D game with an example of play on a CD after two years of introductory board games, the company was now back to introductory roleplaying, though no longer under the Basic D&D brand". Shannon Appelcline noted that by 1993 the Basic D&D line ended and was replaced with games like Dragon Quest (1992) and DragonStrike (1993), and that "There was another abrupt change the next year when TSR put out First Quest (1994) by Richard Baker, Zeb Cook, and Bruce Nesmith. published four starter sets for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. Rick and MortyĪdvanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition 4.2 Stranger Things Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Starter Set.