The Complete Priest's Handbook, Second Edition (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Player's Handbook Rules Supplement #2113 (Paperback)

by Aaron Allston (Author)

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Product Description
A new reference supplement to the smash bestseller, Player's Handbook. Includes fresh, useful informstion with magic and rules that make the priest a more interesting character class. SRP: $15.00S. Min.: 1.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Wizards of the Coast; 2 edition (June 30, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0880388188
• ISBN-13: 978-0880388184
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #577,971 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars hey it helps some, not much but some, September 17, 1999

By A Customer

the book lacked most of what has made the other additions to this series great. As stated before you can probably find all the info included therein as well as some more useful stuff in the Faiths and Avatars as well as the Spells and Magic supplement. IT's ok if you just want to play a boring cleric( but then again wouldn't you just be better off taking the example from the players handbook). Take my word for it, save yourself the money to spend on something that would be really worth your while, but if you have to look at it just flip through it, you can get the important stuff outta there fairly quick.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Whoever wrote this hated priests, January 10, 2000

By	Christopher Dudley (Laurel, MD USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Where 2nd Edition AD&D endows fighters with the ability to (at first level) swing a longsword in each hand, potentially doing 28 points of damagae in a single round without counting Strength bonuses, the 2nd Edition Priests handbook cuts a Priest's power in half. I didn't find a single Priesthood that allowed it's followers to cast spells from all spheres, and many were reduced in combat ability. The special abilities added often come at the cost of the Priest's ability to Turn Undead creatures.

In short, ignore the sample priesthoods, or at least give them more spheres and/or abilities, if you want your players to still be your friends.

The rest of the book is good. It provides mythos creation guidelines, so if you don't wish to play in Forgotten Realms or Greyhawk, you can create your own pantheon and mythology using the guidelines in this book.

The kits are not all that great, one of them even relying on the heavily flawed Martial Arts system from the Player's Handbook. But with a little tinkering, you can use them. Just about everything in here needs a little work, but it's not unusable.

It's a good reference for DMs who are creating their game world. For players, they will probably get little use out of it.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Best thing to do with this book..., September 30, 1999

By A Customer

Read it in the bookstore as a reference book when you are creating your world and putting Gods into it. But thats it...leave it there. This is the book in my TSR library with the most dust on it. But I pass it to new DM's more then i read it so it's not completely useless unless you don't know that many-would be DM's.