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Introduction: Embark on an epic adventure 10 years in the making. Introducing the 2024 Player’s Handbook, the new and improved guide for fifth edition DUNGEONS & DRAGONS. We’ve loved hearing from you and built this book to deliver what you want—and more! Dive into the biggest Player’s Handbook in Dungeons & Dragons history, thoughtfully redesigned based on 10 years of feedback from the D&D community. Create compelling characters with optimized rules, updated spells and equipment, and expanded player options. With an improved layout and organization, you have all the information you need right at your fingertips. This new and improved Player’s Handbook is the ultimate guide for fifth edition D&D players. Play your way with optimized rules for character creation and advancement, exploration, combat, equipment, spells, and much more. Create fantastic heroes from an expanded selection of character origins, classes, and subclasses, revised and balanced for maximum fun. Explore ancient ruins and deadly dungeons. Battle monsters while searching for legendary treasures. Gain experience and power as you trek across uncharted lands with your companions. Your adventure begins now! |
Features: 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. 2024 Edition: Improved layout and organization help you find the information you’re looking for more easily and clearly. The ideal start to your D&D adventures, with updated learn to play and character creation sections. Expanded player options! Customize your character with 12 classes, 48 subclasses, 10 species, 16 backgrounds, and 75 feats, revised and balanced for maximum fun. Marvel at new illustrations and a streamlined design that make every page a joy to experience. Locate rules information easily with an alphabetized Rules Glossary. Explore more than 380 spells, including all-new additions to your arsenal. Get greater versatility in combat with new Weapon Masteries. Craft new items and discover fresh ways to utilize your tools with a new Tools & Crafting System. Arm Yourself for Adventure - Learn How to Play: Dungeons & Dragons immerses you in a world of stories. The rules give structure to those stories, determining the consequences of an adventurers’ actions. Will your fireball finish off that vicious troll? Will you see the trap door before falling to your doom? Roll the dice and see. The Player's Handbook is the essential D&D rulebook for both players and Dungeon Masters. Whether you're pulling off a thrilling heist or trying to charm a surly troll, this book will teach you everything you need to know for a lifetime of playing and running D&D games. Bring Your Character to Life - Create a Character: The Player's Handbook will guide you through the process of creating a character. Choose from the most iconic D&D races and classes. Give your adventurer a personality and background. Equip them with armor, weapons, and all the adventuring gear they'll need to succeed. And dive into a game of magic and monsters, brave warriors and spectacular adventures. As your character's experience and power grows, this book will also be your guide for leveling up, with handy reference charts and a variety of customization options. Enter a World of Magic - Fill in Your Spellbook: Learn to resurrect your allies with the touch of your hand or punish enemies with blazing orbs of fire. The Player's Handbook will teach you the rules for spellcasting, the nature of magic in the D&D multiverse, and serve as your personal spellbook—who needs to go to wizard school? Choose your spells from a huge A–Z directory, with full descriptions of over 350 of D&D's most beloved spells. Playing Dungeons & Dragons: Become an Adventurer: Adventurers come in all shapes and sizes. Find one that’s fun for you. An elvish cleric, driven from society for trespassing on tradition. A dwarven paladin, atoning for an ignominious past. The Player’s Handbook provides the skeleton for your characters. Flesh them out however you choose. Join the Party: D&D brings people together and forges new friendships. Silly moments spawn inside jokes; moving battles leave treasured memories—whether in the heat of battle, embroiled in social intrigue, or solving clever puzzles, your party has your back. Choose Your Own Path: The woods are growing dark. Behind a mass of ivy, you see the stones of a crumbling castle. What do you do? In D&D, your options are limitless. Because the Dungeon Master, as narrator of your tale, can improvise in reaction to any choice you make, what happens next is entirely flexible. Do you dare go on? Format: Hardback Pages: 384 |
Specifications: Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Release Date: 17/09/2024 Genre: Tabletop Game Ages: 12+ Play Time: 60 minutes Players: 2-6 |