From the publisher: Wordplay is very easy to play and has been designed to be played with any created setting or genre that you wish to explore. The game features the following: Free flowing character creation, allowing a player to describe their alter-ego in the game and use those descriptions as Traits (which are then split between Body, Mind and Soul categories) A dice building game. Describe what your character is doing and make use of as many advantages as you can to build as large a hand or pool of dice as possible. Roll your dice and count up your successes and the highest total wins, only the dice that land on the table count! Create goals for your character and drive them forward to succeed. Instead of numerous complicated rules, Wordplay provides story telling opportunities that are translated into dice for your characters. The game is meant to be rules light, open and encourages players to give vivid descriptions that build a shared, character focused, story. Wordplay requires traditional six sided dice to play and many of them! This plain text Basic edition of the game, gives you the core system which is everything you need to play the game except your imagination and a hand full of dice.