Dungeons & Dragons: Files & Links
BASIC INFORMATION
- Dungeons & Dragons: official homepage
- Dungeons & Dragons on Wikipedia: lots of information about the history and development of the game here
- Dragon+: D&D's magazine with interviews, feature articles (ideas for your game), comics, etc.
FOR DUNGEON MASTERS AND PLAYERS
Rules:
Names:
Rules:
- Official Rules Introduction
- beginner:
- Starter-Set Rules.pdf
- free and basic: it's only 32 pages long
- Chart of Combat Actions
- Newbie's Guide to Healing
- Newbie's Guide to Rogue Skills
- Starter-Set Rules.pdf
- more experienced:
- Essentials Kit Rules.pdf
- free and moderately complex: it's 66 pages long
- even more experienced:
- The Basic Rules.pdf
- free but much more complex: it's 180 pages long
Names:
- list of names from one of D&D lead writers, Chris Perkins
- random generator (lots of options here)
BOOKS
Player's Handbook: If you're going to buy only one hardcover book, this should be it.
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FOR DUNGEON MASTERS
Adventures:
Maps:
official:
Sounds:
Adventures:
- Defiance in Phlan
- I used the first section of this adventure at the D&D introduction.
- The adventure background starts on page 5.
- The adventure itself starts on page 6.
- Here's a map of the city of Phlan if you want it.
- free D&D campaigns
- Those that end with .pdf are the easiest to print out.
- Many of these are DDEX adventures, like the one I used at the D&D introduction.
- Dungeon Masters' Guild
- This is a link to free adventures created by all kinds of people.
Maps:
official:
- The Sword Coast
- probably the most popular region in D&D
- Starter Set
- Phandalin (with labels)
- dungeon scrawl (fun and easy to learn)
- Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator
- Click the arrow in the upper-left corner to customize your world.
- for all of these from Watabou, right click to modify the maps
- one-page dungeon (perhaps the most useful)
- region generator
- city generator
- village generator
- mansion generator
- sigil generator (random symbols)
Sounds:
- the sounds of a medieval village
- Also check out the presets in the menu under the equalizer.
FOR PLAYERS
Character Creation:
Random:
Dice:
Character Creation:
Random:
- Don't know where to start? Want to just make a random character?
- Get a character sheet and some dice, and then use this chart to roll a random character.
- blank character sheets
- pre-generated characters
- online character builder (very nice, and I believe you can have up to six characters for free)
Dice:
- free dice roller (or use an app on a phone)
VARIOUS FREE RESOURCES
This is an archive of everything Wizards of the Coast released for free during COVID.
This is an archive of everything Wizards of the Coast released for free during COVID.
- There are a few adventures, lots of coloring pages, and a few other things.
PODCASTS/VIDEOS
- Dragon Talk (D&D's offiicial podcast)
- Acquisitions, Incorporated (hilarious)
- Caution: Contains some salty language, but not a lot.
- I listened to these comedians play D&D with one of the lead writers for D&D, Chris Perkins.
- Their shenanigans are hilarious, and they also give you a good idea of how to play the game (even though they started out using 4th edition).
- Critical Role
- The Adventure Zone (hilarious)