| Phillip Burris |
I would recommend getting the basic box as a PDF on here first as a cheap alternative. If you like it actually by the physical set. That's what I did mainly for the map and pawns. But you can print off the pawns from the PDF if you need extras.
The basic box comes with two books one mainly walks you through how to create your PCs stripping down most of the spells and feats to a few basic ones to keep generation time quick and keep the rules less complicated than needing to know how various spells work.
The second book is your adventure book/dm guide that teaches you how or run an adventure and gives you the start one one. Plus you can pick up some freebies on here to expand on it a little.
The PDF doesn't have the dice of course. And the character sheets are a simplified version but for just getting to know RPGs or to start a quick game I think it's worth the cost. We've moved to using full character sheets but for the most part use the basic rules as we don't have a lot of time for the core rule book which I have. We just pull extra feats and spells from it usually.