Hey, are there any Dungeons & Dragons nerdz on my feed? My kiddo is all too quickly (at least, as far as my perception of time) making the transition from kid to teen, and as she more & more abandons toys and lots of the activities we used to do together on the regular, I am still wanting to get her involved in some stuff that has "in real life" social elements that she would have some fun and interest in participating in, rather than just ending up with her in ever more screen time.
To head off one suggestion, she has an aversion to team sports (similar to her parents when we were kids). And it has been amazing seeing her self direct in drawing & digital art, but again, that is still a solo activity. But one thing she has expressed interest is in role playing games. And the one I used to love and play all the time when I was close to her age was D&D. SO - I was thinking I could get in a set of dice, and a set of the rulebooks, and be "dungeon master" for an initial campaign with some of her friends to try and spark the interest, and have some fun in some nostalgic reliving my own kidhood, as well as still do some time with the kiddo in the little bit left before she goes full on teen, and likely not wanting to do anything with me. The linked pic is the core rule books I came up with (the iconic 1st edition of "Advanced D&D"). But since my time being obsessed with D&D 45+some years ago I know that there have been a ton of new editions, with some rule changes, as well as a good bit of it moved online too.
SO - long winded lead up to a question finally over: what would be a good equivalent edition to these core rule books I should get, that would give as equally a complete overview, but that would give us more current rules that are compatible with what most current D&Ders are playing these days??

Honestly, my DnD table is about to switch full time to Daggerheart.

One thing I would point out in this discussion is that DnD has a streak of bigotry that makes it really uncomfortable for anyone who experiences irl marginalization. I'm noting that your kiddo uses she/her pronouns, or that you are using those for her. There are some modules that are better than others, but so much of the bigotry is baked in. That's not to say 'don't do it,' but it is to say that your kiddo may notice things you didn't/don't notice.

Daggerheart is a newer system that is a little more approachable, it's easy to pick up but still has a lot of the charm that makes DnD good. It was made by the people who make Critical Role and there's a lot of love and heart in it. But if you still want to do DnD, specifically, 2024 isn't bad, but it's less backwards-compatible with the wide range of content people have made for 5e. It does fix some pretty glaring issues, and it makes the ramp-up easier, but there's a lot of interesting stuff that hasn't been adapted to it yet.

Cool, I will have to check out Daggerheart, just worried that it would be hard for me to come in quickly as an old dog needing to learn new tricks, while having very limited time, and while being the one trying to give a good 1st impression to it. Still, if you think it is easy to get going on then maybe it would be fun for both of us to discover it together at the same time. As for bigotry in some D&D communities - that's really sad to hear. In my day (from the ancient times of the 1980's) it's true that nearly all the people I knew that were into D&D were boys, and there was a lot of fantasy fiction written at the time from stilted solely male view points, plus the Frank Frazetta style objectifying art surrounding fantasy at the time was pretty much the default. But still it's a bummer to find out that misogyny & idiocy is still pervading in some gaming communities, at least in this game. I don't want to have my kiddo have to deal with that kind of bs, or have it embedded in the game either - although unfortunately having to gain some "thicker skin" is part of learning how to deal with our current world too.

Oh no, not communities, I mean in the books, like the PHB and DM guide. Like I'm Jewish and there's an incredible amount of antisemitism in those things, nevermind the sexism. That's why I mentioned it, because even if you only ever played at home, if you're using DnD books, it will come up, so it's better to know and anticipate it than be surprised later, right? Some of the communities are shitty, but that happens - I've also found some good ones.

Critical Role has some videos on YT about it if you want to see what it's like before you commit! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6bV2K5eoJgk Here's one of them, but there are more

I think you may find that adapting to new DND is just as much trouble as a new system. It's still d20 based, but a lot has changed!

yeah, I'm Jewish as well (not practicing except for celebrating a few parts of holidays I've cherry picked as being the fun parts - while my real religious beliefs are as a PanenDeist) , it's been so long since I last ever looked at those books that probably those parts that were in them went over my head and I was unaware. And to be clear, if I can find something that does not have embedded misogyny would be great too.
Thanks for your inputs!

Hey, are there any Dungeons & Dragons nerdz on my feed? My kiddo is all too quickly (at least, as far as my perception of time) making the transition from kid to teen, and as she more & more abandons toys and lots of the activities we used to do together on the regular, I am still wanting to get her involved in some stuff that has "in real life" social elements that she would have some fun and interest in participating in, rather than just ending up with her in ever more screen time.
To head off one suggestion, she has an aversion to team sports (similar to her parents when we were kids). And it has been amazing seeing her self direct in drawing & digital art, but again, that is still a solo activity. But one thing she has expressed interest is in role playing games. And the one I used to love and play all the time when I was close to her age was D&D. SO - I was thinking I could get in a set of dice, and a set of the rulebooks, and be "dungeon master" for an initial campaign with some of her friends to try and spark the interest, and have some fun in some nostalgic reliving my own kidhood, as well as still do some time with the kiddo in the little bit left before she goes full on teen, and likely not wanting to do anything with me. The linked pic is the core rule books I came up with (the iconic 1st edition of "Advanced D&D"). But since my time being obsessed with D&D 45+some years ago I know that there have been a ton of new editions, with some rule changes, as well as a good bit of it moved online too.
SO - long winded lead up to a question finally over: what would be a good equivalent edition to these core rule books I should get, that would give as equally a complete overview, but that would give us more current rules that are compatible with what most current D&Ders are playing these days??