U20 FAQ > The Game (8 entries)
High-level answers to questions related to roleplaying games (RPGs) with a focus on D&D.
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Dungeons and Dragons is a tabletop roleplaying game (RPG) played with your imagination, dice, miniatures, pens and paper, and friends; a form of mutual storytelling where you battle monsters, explore, and ...
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Playing D&D will neither hurt nor kill you (unless you choke on a cheesy poof, but then you may have had deeper issues). Your character, however, can "die" in the same ...
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A number of different things could happen. It's likely that most, if not all, of the other players survived the encounter. In that case you would roll a new character and ...
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No. While the core books are rather pricey at 40-50$ a pop, you can often get the set of three (that's the Player's Handbook, the Dungeon Master's Guide, and the Monster ...
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At least one set of the core books, at least one set of dice (preferably one per player), some paper and pencils, some time, and a table to seat you and ...
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The funny-sided dice are no different in function from the six-siders we're used to seeing while playing Monopoly or Yahtzee--they factor random chance into the game. Will you be able to ...
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Sometimes, he does. More often, however, the DM is invested in the story being played out in the game world, and he doesn't want to see it all end on the ...
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There is no way to answer that question accurately since every game is played by different people with different goals. We should start by pointing out that a single D&D game ...




