Chapter 1: How to Play - Dungeons & Dragons vs. Rick and Morty: Basic Rules

Chapter 1: How to Play. The Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game is about storytelling in worlds of swords and sorcery. Like games of make-believe, D&D is driven by imagination. It's about picturing a crumbling castle in a darkening forest and imagining how a fantasy adventurer might react to the challenges that scene presents. In this fantasy world, the possibilities are limitless. That's a really poetic o-o-opening, Morty, and it's all kinda mostly true, but the theater major who wrote that forgot to mention... POWER, Morty! The most People play this game because they want limitless power and treasure and to act like a complete badass all the time. I-I-I mean, honestly, it's the }, but fine, fine. That's just a b-b-*BURP*-baseline assumption we have to make because this is a human game for human people.} W-w-we're not playing Dungeons & Dragons is a portal gun to } and } without n-n-needing to be a genius like me who built one, Morty. It's not as good as a portal gun, but it's also a lot cheaper and doesn't require unstable energy sources to operate.} it's good stuff. Dungeon Master (DM): The castle stands among the trees, the crumbling ruins of seven round towers jutting up from it like broken teeth. An archway littered with twisted shards of rusted metal gapes open at the top of a short flight of steps. Two of the towers, speckled with dark arrow slits, loom beside the entryway, and a dark hall yawns beyond. Phillip (cleric): Let's send the rogue up ahead to look in and make sure it's safe. Amy (rogue): OK, I'll move to the side and sneak along the wall of the tower until I can peer in through the entrance. What kind of cleric sends somebody in to die for them, anyway? He's totally complicit, Morty. Unlike a game of make-believe, D&D gives structure to the stories-a way of determining the consequences of the adventurers' actions. Players roll dice to determine whether their attacks hit or miss and whether their characters can scale a cliff, roll away from the...