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Dungeons & Dragons is a game where you say what your character does, the Dungeon Master (DM) says what happens, and a twenty-sided die settles every argument in between. That is the whole engine. Everything else is detail, and this guide gives you only the detail you need for your first night at the table. The rules here come from…

Players and Dungeon Masters roll the same dice for different reasons. A player rolls to find out whether the plan worked. The DM rolls to find out what the world does about it. Below: the rolls each side makes in the first hour of a game, the ten rolls that make a table lean in, and the four rolls of…