Keith had to write a report for school on a topic of interest to him. We decided to post it so he can share it with the new potential players that he meets.

Dungeons and Dragons, known as D&D for short, is a strategic roleplaying game. There are a variety of things you can do in D&D. The entire premise of the game is that you are someone else, somewhere else. That someone else could be a dragonborn monk, an elvish wizard or an orcish ranger. The somewhere else could be a dark dungeon, a mighty forest, or the open ocean. 

The core part of D&D is rolling dice. For the ease of play, people abbreviate dice names. They call them “d” and then the number of sides there are on the dice. For example, a d6 is a six-sided dice.