Customer Reviews

The Complete Ranger's Handbook (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 2nd Edition, Player's Handbook Rules Supplement/PHBR11)

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The PHBR (Player's Handbook Reference) series is one of the most highly-regarded, and yet much-maligned, series of supplements ever created. Each sourcebook takes one of the races or classes of the AD&D game, and adds to it huge amounts of new detail - new equipment, spells, kits (sub-classes), lore, new rules, etc. The problem is that the players love these so much that the DM often feels compelled to buy into the rest of the series - an expensive proposition! Fortunately, these works were "reprinted" in the excellent AD&D Core Rules CD-ROM. This one includes everything you need to know to design and play a Ranger - chapters include requirements, level advancement, spell use, weapons and armor, tracking, animal empathy, natural lore, strongholds, followes, kits (such as the Explorer, Falconer, and Giant Killer), proficiencies, new spells and magic items, equipment, role-playing, religion, forgatherings, and more! An indispensible tome.

Excellent book with a lot to add for anybody that is playing a ranger or wants to play one. Some very strong kits (pathfinder, stalker, mountain man, etc) and a few week ones (what's up with the plant ranger?) Also recommended for a DM that wants to add an interesting ranger NPC into play.

Everybody loves the Ranger. This book is really helpful in creating a very deep Ranger character. More kits, better information on followers, Ranger society and a wealth of other details. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves to play Ranger characters.

Really Cool Book. Great Organization(Alkthough it can be hard to tell where a chapter ends. There Are Very Cool Kits too. My Three Favorite are the Feralan, Greenwood Ranger(Half Tree) and the Pathfinder. New Nonweaponprofiencies too. Also there are tables for primary terrain, spiecies enemy, and followers. The Cover even looks like tree bark, Buy it! (I hope I didn't make too much typos in this review)

I ORDERED SEVERAL BOOKS IN THIS CATAGORY AS A PLAYER OF 30 YEARS STARTED A COLLECTION FOR MY GRANDSONS, ITS A GREAT GAMES AND A WONDERFUL SET OF LEARNING TOOLS FOR CHILDREN LIKE MATH, READING, COMPREHENSION, DEALING WITH WINS AND LOSSES, STRATAGY, AND A GREAT WAY TO SPEND TIME WITH KIDS DOING A ROLE PLAYING GAME.

This book was great! If your an aspirig DM or just a Ranger PC, you should own this book. It has all the tables you need for the special abilities, armor, weapons, non-wpn prof, and the kits are great! The Greenwood Ranger kit is kinda lame, but overall I liked these compared to the 1st Edition kits. It also has a huge section on animal followers and how to train them and use them as best as possible.

The book is well organized. Writing style is reader friendly. However, over 60% of books is of interest only to players running Rangers above 7th level. I bought the book because I knew nothing about Rangers, and wanted more information for running a beginning level character than found in the Player's Handbook, or the the Skills & Powers book.

The restating of the character creation and organization of the book is very good, but some of the information (Greenwood Ranger) is just plain stupid.

This book opens up the Ranger to an entire world's terrain. The kits, as with the Paladin's Handbook, are outstanding. A must-have.

This book provides a great look inside the persona of a Ranger. It's a great reference for Role-Playing and a handy guide for a few new proficiencies, skills, and items. In addition to being a great guide through the life of a ranger, this handbook also features some of my favorite art work.