Premium 2nd Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook – May 21, 2013 Author: Wizards RPG Team | Language: English | ISBN:
0786964456 | Format: PDF
Premium 2nd Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook – May 21, 2013 Description
- Series: D&D Core Rulebook
- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Wizards of the Coast; 2 edition (May 21, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0786964456
- ISBN-13: 978-0786964451
- Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.8 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
For the uninitiated, this is a reprint of the 1995 version of the AD&D 2nd Edition Player's Handbook. Many players prefer the original 1989 printing (and it does cause confusion at the table when both versions are in use). In my opinion, though, the full-color layout is much more readable in the newer version than the original's two-color printing. I have heard complaints that some purchasers did not know this was the version that was being remade, but the page count (320, up from 256) has been here on Amazon and WOTC's site since February, and the previews of the book clearly were the never version.
With that out of the way, the physical book itself is excellent, with heavier paper stock than the original, plain goldenrod endpages (as opposed to the ad-printed ones from the 1995 version), and easier to read text -- it was re-typeset with current-day layout software, and there are nowhere near as many hyphenated words and sentences breaking across columns or pages as there was in the original. The cover is embossed, with the castle pattern along the edges and the design on the back having nice texture. The title page has the original 2nd-Edition logo on it, along with a small WOTC logo instead of TSR's (much smaller than the original TSR logo). The are has been cleaned up as well, with all of the paintings being re-scanned from the originals, and with more vibrant colors (making it easier to see details -- the image of the giant fish attacking adventurers underwater on page 17 pops much more than before). There were two images in the original that are _not_ in the reprint, however: Page 78 was replaced with a full-page version of the cover illustration, while page 246 has a full-page version of the Dungeon Master's Guide cover.
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