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Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition (the current edition) is made to be very accessible and easy to get into for anyone who wants to do so. All you really need to do is read the free Basic Rules (https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/basicrules) published by Wizards of the Coast, and gather some friends. Having at least one person who has played before is recommended, but not required. See below to get recommendations for how to find people with whom to play.

There are lots of places! If you can find a local game shop, many of them will have bulletin board postings of people looking for players, and many even have weekly D&D nights where you can just show up and meet other people who want to play and join a game. The 'Looking For Games' subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/lfg/) is also a good place to look.

You don't necessarily need to buy your own dice to play. If you are playing at a local game store or with experienced players, often times someone will have spares that you can borrow. If you're playing with people online (or even in person) you could even use digital dice rollers -- though some people frown upon this (and it's definitely not as satisfying). If you do get your own dice, you're probably going to want a 7 dice set: one each of a D4, D6, D8, D10, D12, D20, and a percentile die (basically a D10 but with 00-90). The most important one is a D20, so you can often even just get by with one of those. If you want to be fully prepared, we'd recommend having two D20s and four D6s, which can make several common rolls easier to do all at once.

Not really, if you don't want! One of the beauties of D&D is that most of what you need are a good imagination and people to play with. The core rules you need can be found in the Basic Rules published by Wizards of the Coast (https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/basicrules) and are completely free. If you want to get more in-depth you can purchase the 5th Edition Player's Handbook and any of the other supplemental resource books from Wizards of the Coast. If you are running a game yourself you probably want the Dungeon Master's Guide, as well as optionally a pre-written adventure (or you can use a free one, mentioned below, or make one yourself), a whiteboard (for maps), dry erase markers, mini figures, etc. If you are playing with other experienced players or at a game shop, you can probably borrow things from other players (just like dice, as mentioned above). You can also purchase digital copies of the source books places like DnDBeyond (www.dndbeyond.com), which often also have plenty of other good resources, or find them online in various places like The Trove (https://thetrove.net/).

There are tons of options for people just starting out. If you want an official published adventure, The Lost Mines of Phandelver or Dragon of Icespire Peak are the best for both beginner players as well as beginner Dungeon Masters. They were released with the D&D 5e Starter Set and Essentials Kit (respectively), but the adventures themselves can also be bought online individually. There are lots of other official published campaigns with various themes, aesthetics, and complexities, so we suggest looking for something that sounds fun to you. Most of them have a suggested level progression for players, so good ones for beginners are anything that starts at level 1 and goes to level 5 or so. If you are open to more variety (but also wider variance of quality and detail), or are just looking for a more one-shot (single session) adventure type thing, you can find tons of content published by other enthusiasts on sites like DM's Guild (https://www.dmsguild.com/). Lots of the user-created ("homebrew") content is free, with some larger or more detailed content having set (but usually low) prices.