Robertson in issue 61 of White Dwarf magazine (January 1985), rating it a 7 out of 10 overall. The Companion Set was reviewed by Megan C. This book covers running high-level campaigns, including mass combat, other worlds and planes, and new monsters and treasure. The next section "The War Machine" was designed by Douglas Niles and Gary Spiegel as a method for coping with large-scale battles, especially those in the campaign's background. This section ends with notes on the organization and running of tournaments. The introduction also constructs a feudal system to provide a basis for the dominions, which will be granted to or conquered by the player characters. The Dungeon Master's Companion begins with general guidelines on running a campaign and planning adventures for characters of level 15 and higher. It also introduces the optional character class of druid, presented as a special progression for clerics of neutral alignment. The concept of "attack rank" is introduced for the three demi-human classes although, per the Expert Set rules, they are capped at a specified maximum level, further accumulation of experience points increases their combat abilities. This section concentrates wholly on human characters, treating dwarves, elves, and halflings separately. The Player's Companion details the new abilities and increases in skills, spells, and other abilities that accrue to members of each character class as they rise in level. It introduces new weapons, armor types, and unarmed combat rules as well as providing details on running a stronghold and its recurrent costs, such as wages of the castle staff. The book begins with commentary on the changes since a character began as an adventurer at level one. The Player's Companion covers information on character levels 15-25. This set was limited to 1,000 copies and was sold by mail and at GenCon 17. The 10th Anniversary Dungeons & Dragons Collector's Set boxed set, published by TSR in 1984, included the rulebooks from the Basic, Expert, and Companion sets modules AC2, AC3, B1, B2, and M1, Blizzard Pass Player Character Record Sheets and dice. The set contains two booklets: Player's Companion: Book One and Dungeon Master's Companion: Book Two, which were edited by Anne Gray. It was published by TSR in 1984 as a boxed set containing a 64-page book and a 32-page book. The Companion Rules set was written by Mentzer, with art by Larry Elmore and Jeff Easley. Between 19, this system was revised and expanded by Mentzer as a series of five boxed sets, including the Basic Rules, Expert Rules (supporting character levels 4 through 14), Companion Rules (supporting levels 15 through 25), Master Rules (supporting levels 26 through 36), and Immortal Rules (supporting Immortals – characters who had transcended levels). The Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set was revised in 1983 by Frank Mentzer as Dungeons & Dragons Set 1: Basic Rules. It was first published in 1984 as an expansion to the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set. With recent developments at WotC/Hasbro I am considering going back to 2nd Edition.The Dungeons & Dragons Companion Set is an expansion boxed set for the Dungeons & Dragons ( D&D) fantasy role-playing game. I have been playing D&D since 1975 Lost all original books in a fire. Though they did put in a color picture for each creature.Īppears to be the original text based on my memory. Monstrer manual alphabetical listings, click the creature name and it takes you to the creature.įew if any of the original pictures appear to be in the PDF. That's not enough to downgrade the rating. Lack of this index and hypertext linking it to the books' title pages is the only thing I can find to complain about really. I titled it "Entire collection of all 26 AD&D Second edition Index of books" I saved that as an OpenOffice word processing document in the directory (file folder) with the PDF. There is no such list at the beginning and you will want that to go to the correct book rapidly. (counting the AD&D originals being part of that 20 years)Ĭopy-Paste the text listing of page numbers where each book starts in the document. It took about 20 years for it all to be originally published. Just an initial scanning of the PDF so far. This is a HUGE PDF 28.4 mb Nearly 6000 pages.
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