The first two sections (Golden Rules and Getting Started) give you the fundamentals of the game. As a new player, you should not be reading this front to back in one sitting. There are no stupid questions - PAD is a deceptively complex game!
If you have not already, please come join our community, say hello to us, and ask any questions you might have in the #new_player_help channel.
Although anyone is welcome and encouraged to use/share this guide, it was written with the Puzzle and Dragons Community Discord Server in mind, and references a lot of resources available on the server. Welcome to Puzzle and Dragons! This is a fairly detailed but definitely not comprehensive guide to what you should (and definitely should not!) be doing as a new player in PAD. Please contact with any content-related questions or concerns. Original guide by River, expanded and reworked by irinya, updates by Estina and fluff