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KthulhuX posted...

krazychao5 posted...

I never understood DnD

Reading this doesn't help

Listening to people talk about D&D with other people who play D&D or (as is the case here) targeted towards other people who play it is possibly the WORST way to try to understand it. If you actually want to understand it, I suggest you read the intro to an RPG book. Quite a few are available for free online, so there's no real cost to it.

Yeah, we weren't exactly being polite to anybody new here. DnD requires it's own unique language, in fact all roleplaying games do and they're all different. Like you can easily find someone saying this:
Two handing a weapon's attack goes like this: 1d20+Str+BAB-PowerAttack (if you have it, and use it up to BAB) to hit, and damage is WeaponDice + Str x 1.5 + PowerAttack (if you used it).

If you ever are curious about where to start though, I actually recommend podcasts to learn it because even if you don't understand the mechanics you can still enjoy the roleplaying that goes on.
You can understand the base mechanics and then read the books once you get the language down.