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A listing of manuals for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. more...

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Several manuals are required for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. The current Dungeons & Dragons requires three core rulebooks: the Player's Handbook, the Dungeon Master's Guide, and the Monster Manual. Variations of these three books have formed core manuals since the first edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, however many and varied different optional manuals have existed for all versions of Dungeons & Dragons.

Because of the d20 System and Open Gaming License, with 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons there are many other optional manuals which are not officially "Dungeons & Dragons" but are fully compatible with Dungeons & Dragons. These can vary the game a lot or a little. Some of these options rather than being optional extra manuals can be used to replace some or all of the standard manuals. One most popular of these alternate manuals is Arcana Unearthed which is an alternative Player's Handbook. Castles & Crusades has alternatives for all the core manuals, producing a simpler D&D type game.

Current (v3.5) Dungeons and Dragons

The revisions of the 3.5 edition made a number of previous rulebooks obsolete, however others are still almost fully compatible with the revisions. The core rulebooks were completely replaced. The Psionics Handbook was replaced with the Expanded Psionics Handbook. The third edition had five softcover rulebooks focusing on character classes: Sword and Fist (fighter and monk), Tome and Blood (sorcerer and wizard), Defenders of the Faith (cleric and paladin), Masters of the Wild (barbarian, druid, and ranger), and Song and Silence (bard and rogue), were updated into four revised and expanded hardcover rulebooks for 3.5 edition: Complete Warrior (barbarian, fighter, ranger), Complete Divine (cleric, druid, paladin), Complete Arcane (sorcerer, wizard), Complete Adventurer (bard, rogue), and Complete Psionic (psion, wilder, psychic warrior, soulknife).

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (1st edition)

The popularity of the first three core rulebooks the Monster Manual (1977), the Players Handbook(1978), and the Dungeon Master's Guide (1979), encouraged TSR to publish more and more books. Before the second edition of the game was released, there were over a dozen hardbound sourcebooks. Many were sourcebooks and optional rules, however Unearthed Arcana (1985) represented a significant suplement for both the Players Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide.

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