Advanced Dungeons Dragons Players Handbook

Presents an introduction to Dungeons and Dragons with information on the rules, characters, weapons and gear, and game etiquette.

Outlines how to determine a character's abilities, rules for character improvement, and mapping and combat procedures

TSR games and rules editor, preface by author, credits and acknowledgements, 16 appendices, glossary, afterword, a list of tables and charts, and index.

Create heroic characters for the world’s greatest roleplaying game. The Player’s Handbook is the essential reference for every Dungeons & Dragons roleplayer. It contains rules for character creation and advancement, backgrounds and skills, exploration and combat, equipment, spells, and much more. Use this book to create characters from among the most iconic D&D races and classes. Publisher’s Weekly #1 Best Seller in Hardcover Nonfiction Wall Street Journal #1 Best Seller in Hardcover Nonfiction • In Dungeons & Dragons, you and your friends coauthor your own legend. Guided by a Dungeon Master, you create characters and play their roles in a story, rolling dice and navigating maps as you unfold a tale as limitless as your imagination. • The Player’s Handbook is the first of three D&D core rulebooks, along with the Monster Manual and the Dungeon Master’s Guide. The Player’s Handbook is the cornerstone. It’s the foundational text of D&D’s fifth edition—for beginners and for veterans alike. • The Player’s Handbook walks you through how to create a Dungeons & Dragons character—the role you’ll play in the D&D world. • Dungeons & Dragons is the world’s greatest roleplaying game. Created in 1974, D&D transformed gaming culture by blending traditional fantasy with miniatures and wargaming.

Provides information on the origins, tactics, myths, and lairs of a variety of undead creatures and threats encountered in the game of Dungeons and Dragons.

A deluxe version of the essential core rulebook every D&D Dungeon Master needs, this special release features an embossed, leather-bound cover and premium, gilt-edged paper.