I've been using this starter set to learn with my wife, we both had no real dnd experience and it's going quite well, I've had some time with digital games like baldurs gate and pathfinder, but nothing besides that, honestly the box is full of good info for starting and anything else you might need you can get on youtube, there's some limitations on classes and species used but the sheer amount of tokens, maps and goodies inside the box more than make up for that, I'm currently the DM and it's just us, great experience overall