Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook: Roleplaying Game Core Rules, 4th Edition

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	Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook: Roleplaying Game Core Rules, 4th Edition Wizards RPG Team Wizards of the Coast, 2008 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 178 reviews view larger image
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The first of three core rulebooks for the 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game. The Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game has defined the medieval fantasy genre and the tabletop RPG industry for more than 30 years. In the D&D game, players create characters that band together to explore dungeons, slay monsters, and find treasure. The 4th Edition D&D rules offer the best possible play experience by presenting exciting character options, an elegant and robust rules system, and handy storytelling tools for the Dungeon Master. The Players Handbook presents the official Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game rules as well as everything a player needs to create D&D characters worthy of song and legend: new character races, base classes, paragon paths, epic destinies, powers, magic items, weapons, armor, and much more.

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Excellent game. Makes a great Board game

The book came super fast and was a great price new, better than in the stores. I've tried 4ed at a convention and with my friends. We still aren't sold on it as a whole. It is WAY too similar to World of Warcraft.

However, it makes for a fun, Heroquest elite like board game. The book is full of errors and errata has been added on wizard's website, but that is to be expected for a first printing. Mostly just clarifications.

Enjoy everyone, it's worth giving a chance and I like that it's a chance to start over without feeling like a powergamer with 2000 books to choose from.

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Not the D&D we remember

What a strange beast this new game is.

Hasbro has changed Dungeons and Dragons so radically as to make it unrecognizable from the D&D so many of us grew up with. Gone are the endless ways to customize a character- the proficiencies, the spell lists, the multitude of races and classes to draw on- that were the hallmark of the sometimes unwieldy AD&D of years past. Instead, Hasbro has scaled the races and classes back to an odd handful of old and new (dwarves, elves and... dragonborn?) that are primarily cosmetic, and replaced the proficiency lists and spellbooks with endless combat feats and combat powers, combat exploits and combat spells, combat, combat, combat. Yes, combat, always a major part of any D&D session, has now taken not just center stage but the whole damn opera, and once and for all overwhelmed all other aspects of the game.

This is simply too bad. Although the old system had many, many flaws, its heart was always in the right place. It was a *role-playing* system, designed to allow its players to create nearly any kind of character from their imaginations, and to lay out traits and abilities that made that character play unlike any other. In 4th Edition, players design characters that are all too similar to each other (the combat powers for each class, despite all the pages devoted to them, are actually quite limited and homogeneous), and put them through the paces of combat after combat that play out in far too similar a way. True, a bare handful of skills provide evidence that the designers at least considered the possibility of RP outside of battle, but it is clear that their inclusion was little more than an afterthought.

If the new rules were introduced as their own miniatures game without the baggage of the D&D name, this review would be more favorable. After all, the new combat system is solid, and battles play out in a generally dynamic, engaging fashion, at least for an encounter or two. But by using the Dungeons and Dragons brand, and worse, discontinuing 3.5, Hasbro forces the comparison to older incarnations. Simply put, there is far too much missing from 4th Edition for it to seem like anything other than a shadow of its former selves.

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