Player's Handbook (Dungeons & Dragons)

Create heroic characters for the world’s greatest roleplaying game.   The Player’s Handbook is the essential reference for every Dungeons & Dragons roleplayer. It contains rules for character creation and advancement backgrounds and skills exploration and combat equipment spells and much more. Use this book to create characters from among the most iconic D&D races and classes.   Publisher’s Weekly #1 Best Seller in Hardcover Nonfiction Wall Street Journal #1 Best Seller in Hardcover Nonfiction   • In Dungeons & Dragons you and your friends coauthor your own legend. Guided by a Dungeon Master you create characters and play their roles in a story rolling dice and navigating maps as you unfold a tale as limitless as your imagination.   • The Player’s Handbook is the first of three D&D core rulebooks along with the Monster Manual and the Dungeon Master’s Guide. The Player’s Handbook is the cornerstone. It’s the foundational text of D&D’s fifth edition—for beginners a