Player's Handbook

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Player’s Handbook, 3.5 ed.
Player's Handbook for D&D version 3.5
Author Monte Cook, Jonathan Tweet, Skip Williams
Genre(s) Role-playing game
Publisher Wizards of the Coast
Released July 2003
Media Type Print (Hardback)
Pages 320
ISBN 0-7869-2886-7
AD&D 1st Edition (8th printing)
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AD&D 1st Edition (8th printing)

The Player's Handbook (in previous editions of the game, Players Handbook) is a book of rules for the seminal fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. It does not contain the complete set of rules, but only those concerning players of the game. Additional rules, concerning Dungeon Masters, who referee the game, can be found in the Dungeon Master's Guide. Many optional rules, such as those governing extremely high-level players, and some of the more obscure spells are found in other sources.

The Player's Handbook has gone through several editions through the years. The original Advanced Dungeons & Dragons First Edition Players Handbook divided the game rules between the Players Handbook and the Dungeon Masters Guide. Later editions of the game moved the bulk of the game rules to the Player's Handbook, leaving information needed chiefly by the Dungeon Master in the Dungeon Master's Guide.

The Player's Handbook contains tables and rules for creating characters and lists the abilities of the different character classes, the properties and costs of equipment, a complete list of spells that magic-using character classes (such as wizards or clerics) can cast, and numerous other rules that govern gameplay.

The Player's Handbook along with the Dungeon Master's Guide and Monster Manual make up the core rulebooks of Dungeons & Dragons.

In 2006 Player's Handbook II was released.

[edit] References

  • Cook, David (1989). Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition Player's Handbook. TSR, Inc..

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Dungeons & Dragons Core Rule Books
Player's Handbook | Dungeon Master's Guide | Monster Manual
3.5 Dungeons & Dragons Supplemental Source Books
Book of Exalted Deeds | Cityscape | Complete Adventurer | Complete Arcane | Complete Divine | Complete Mage | Complete Psionic | Complete Warrior | Dragon Magic | Dungeon Master's Guide II | Expanded Psionics Handbook | Fiendish Codex I II | Frostburn | Heroes of Battle | Heroes of Horror | Libris Mortis | Lords of Madness | Magic of Incarnum | Monster Manual III IV | Planar Handbook | Player's Handbook II | Races of Destiny | Races of the Dragon | Races of Stone | Races of the Wild | Sandstorm | Spell Compendium | Stormwrack | Tome of Battle | Tome of Magic | Unearthed Arcana | Weapons of Legacy
3.0 Dungeons & Dragons Supplemental Source Books
Arms and Equipment Guide | Book of Challenges | Book of Vile Darkness | Defenders of the Faith | Deities and Demigods | Draconomicon | Enemies and Allies | Epic Level Handbook | Fiend Folio | Hero Builders Guidebook | Manual of the Planes | Masters of the Wild | Miniatures Handbook | Monster Manual II | Psionics Handbook | Savage Species | Song and Silence | Stronghold Builders Guidebook | Sword and Fist | Tome and Blood
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Dragonlance: Dragonlance Campaign Setting • Eberron: Dragonmarked | Eberron Campaign Setting | Explorer's Handbook | Faiths of Eberron | Five Nations | Magic of Eberron | Player's Guide to Eberron | Races of Eberron | Secrets of Xen'drik | SharnForgotten Realms: Champions of Ruin | Champions of Valor | City of Splendors | Dragons of Faerûn | Faiths and Pantheons | Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting | Lords of Darkness | Lost Empires of Faerûn | Magic of Faerûn |Mysteries of the Moonsea | Player's Guide to Faerûn | Power of Faerûn | Races of Faerûn | Serpent Kingdoms | Shining South | Silver Marches | Unapproachable East | UnderdarkGhostwalk: GhostwalkGreyhawk: D&D Gazetteer | Living Greyhawk GazetteerOriental Adventures: Oriental Adventures
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