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ELI5: The rules of D&D (latte.isnot.coffee)
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My friends and I want to start a campaign. We don't know the ruling for the game. We are waiting for our official book to come in so we can start our first session. Can anyone explain in a simplistic manner the rules for D&D? Classes and Races we will review ourselves. Just want to know the basics.

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[–] RQG@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Player says what they want to do.

DM decides how difficult it is from trivial to impossible. If it's possible and not trivial the DM sets a difficulty and tells the player what ability and/or skill Bonus to use.

Trivial tasks always succeed, impossible tasks always fail.

Player makes the roll and calculates the outcome.

DM determines the outcome and tells players what happens.

That's the base of dnd. The other rules are all just for determining or changing difficulties, as well as changing what's possible, and what's trivial. And to create an order of operations.