Lets start by saying this game is really fun and easy to learn. Ever since I have received it we have played this game over 5 times, it always changes when you get the different heros.  You can randomly choose a hero or just look through the hero cards and pick one that way.  There are 7 white dice and 7 black dice.  The white dice are for the heros and the black are for the monsters.  The first player who is going to be the adventurer rolls the 7 white dice, and the player to their left rolls 1 black die and that is because you start on level 1. As the adventurer moves on to the next levels that is when you can start adding more dice.  Now if a dragon is rolled that die is set aside in the Dragon's Lair, and the adventurer can't fight the dragon until there are at least 3 dragon's in the dragon's lair.  To do the actions you must first fight the monsters, then the treasure or deal with the potion and then if there are 3 dragon's in the dragon's lair, then fight the dragon.  Now you need to be careful on which of your fellow companions you choose to use, because in order to fight the dragon you must use 3 different companions unless you have a specialty saying otherwise.