The hardest thing about D&D is getting started. There's a lot to learn; character sheets and proficiency modifiers can feel as alien to newcomers as the game's fictional languages. It's easy to become lost and throw in your proverbial wizard's hat before you've even delved your first dungeon.
D&D beginner boxes don't always help. Despite being pitched as the ideal place to learn, they usually present players with a wall of text and baffling stats to decipher. They also put an inordinate amount of strain on whoever is 'running' the game – the Dungeon Master. This new D&D Starter Set, though? Well, that's a different story. I've been digging through it over the last few weeks, and I think this might be the best starter set Dungeons & Dragons has ever had. It seems as though publisher Wizards of the Coast has finally cracked the code.
