This is the D&D Free Rules, released in 2024, covering how to play, adventures, and creating a character for the revised. Play your way with optimized rules for character creation and advancement, exploration, combat, equipment, spells, and much more. Create fantastic heroes from an expanded selection of character origins, classes, and subclasses, all revised and balanced for maximum fun.
The Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game is about storytelling in worlds of swords and sorcery. It shares elements with childhood games of make-believe. Like those games, D&D is driven by imagination. It’s about picturing the towering castle beneath the stormy night sky and imagining how a fantasy adventurer might react to the challenges that scene presents.
Unlike a game of make-believe, D&D gives structure to the stories, a way of determining the consequences of the adventurers’ action. Players roll dice to resolve whether their attacks hit or miss or whether their adventurers can scale a cliff, roll away from the strike of a magical lightning bolt, or pull off some other dangerous task. Anything is possible, but the dice make some outcomes more probable than others.
