The Complete Priest's Handbook
The Complete Priest's Handbook is a supplemental rulebook published in 1990 for the 2nd edition of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.
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| Author | Aaron Allston |
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| Genre | Role-playing game |
| Publisher | TSR |
Publication date | 1990 |
| Pages | 128 |
Contents
The Complete Priest's Handbook is a rules supplement for the 2nd edition Player's Handbook which details priestly characters and the role of religion in campaigns.[1] The book includes rules for priest kit subclasses, and 60 sample priesthoods.[1]
This AD&D game supplement provides noble priests, outlaw priests, fighting monks, amazon priestesses, and other “priest kits”; priest personality archetypes like the crusader, philosopher, hypocrite, and earnest novice; 60 sample priesthoods of deities for agriculture, birth, disease, elemental forces, hunting, literature, oceans, oracles, trade, wind, wisdom, and more; and rules for designing new faiths.[2] There are new weapons and equipment, martial-arts rules, and adventure hooks for priest characters.[2]
Publication history
PHBR3 The Complete Priest's Handbook was written by Aaron Allston, with illustrations by Thomas Baxa, and was published by TSR in 1990 as a 128-page book.[1]
Reception
Allen Varney reviewed The Complete Priest's Handbook for Dragon magazine #165 (January 1991).[2] He comments on the book by asking, "Is there anything so unlikely as a "generic priest"?"[2] Varney's concluding comments in the review are: "Never thought of an all-priest campaign? Then you never saw The Complete Priest's Handbook. Bravo! (Or do I mean "Hallelujah"?)"[2]
Reviews
- Review: White Wolf #23 (1990)
References
- Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. pp. 109–110. ISBN 0-87975-653-5.
- Varney, Allen (January 1991). "Role-playing Reviews". Dragon. Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: TSR (#165): 68–69.