The Complete Sha'ir's Handbook

The Complete Sha'ir's Handbook
Genre Role-playing games
Publisher TSR
Publication date
 1994
Pages 126

The Complete Sha'ir's Handbook is an accessory for the 2nd edition of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, published in 1994.

Contents

The Complete Sha'ir's Handbook covers sha'irs and also the elemental mages of Zakhara. Presented in the familiar "Complete Handbook" format. it gives role-playing and campaign advice (apprentices, dueling practices), new wizard kits (astrologer, numerologist, clockwork mage, and others), almost a dozen secret magical societies, and ten pages of new spells and proficiencies. The Mechanician, for example, crafts clockwork automata to cast his spells.[1]

This book details the wizards of the Al-Qadim setting, including the core kits of Sha'ir, Sorcerer, and Elemental Mage. It also introduces a number of additional kits.

Publication history

The Complete Sha'ir's Handbook was written by Sam Witt and published by TSR as a 128-page softcover.[1]

Reception

Allen Varney reviewed The Complete Sha'ir's Handbook for Dragon magazine #219 (July 1995).[1] Varney comments: "The kits work well, especially the Mechanician [...] But the societies come out of nowhere, adding a needless layer of campaign complexity ungrounded in Arabian folktales or the Zakharan campaign. If you want a secret society of desert mages, play in the Dark Sun world. Flatly written and wordy, The Complete Sha'ir's Handbook offers some useful advice on topics like genie prisons and caring for familiars, but its new spells look unusually powerful, as does the wizard assassin called the Spellslayer. Look before buying.[1]

Reviews

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Varney, Allen (July 1995). "Role-playing Reviews". Dragon (Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: TSR) (#219): 54.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, June 11, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.