Without paying for anything, you're limited to the stuff in the Basic rules, which is enough to be going on with.
If you want more, somebody's going to want to buy some of the books. If somebody gets a master subscription, they can turn on content sharing for a campaign, and everyone in that campaign can read the books and use the character builder stuff from those books on characters within that campaign. (A subscription does not unlock anything by itself.)
2: No. The way it's normally done is that the players each make and control a single character, and the DM controls everything else. In particular, they're there to control the opposition (but also the friendly and neutral parts of the world). You'll have your hands quite full enough without trying to control a protagonist as well.
3: I suggest buying a pre-made adventure to run for your first outing. I think Phandelver and Below is particularly designed for groups starting out, but I don't actually know, as it's been a long, long, time since I was in that position.
So I have a group of us that are wanting to do the tabletop but we found this instead! Im a little confused on the website though.
1. Do all of us have to subscribe to the hero/master to be able to play?
2. If I'm DM do i need to create a character as well?
I have so many more questions and I'm just overwhelmed atm and any tips would be awesome!
1: None of you do.
Without paying for anything, you're limited to the stuff in the Basic rules, which is enough to be going on with.
If you want more, somebody's going to want to buy some of the books. If somebody gets a master subscription, they can turn on content sharing for a campaign, and everyone in that campaign can read the books and use the character builder stuff from those books on characters within that campaign. (A subscription does not unlock anything by itself.)
2: No. The way it's normally done is that the players each make and control a single character, and the DM controls everything else. In particular, they're there to control the opposition (but also the friendly and neutral parts of the world). You'll have your hands quite full enough without trying to control a protagonist as well.
3: I suggest buying a pre-made adventure to run for your first outing. I think Phandelver and Below is particularly designed for groups starting out, but I don't actually know, as it's been a long, long, time since I was in that position.