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Player's Handbook

Table of Contents

Foreword to the 2nd Edition

Credits

Foreword

Welcome to the AD&D® Game

Welcome to the AD&D Game

How the Rule Books are Organized

Learning the Game

Coming from the D&D Game

The AD&D Game Line

A Note About Pronouns

The Real Basics

The Goal

Required Materials

An Example of Play

Glossary

Step-by-Step Character Generation

Step-by-Step Player Character Generation

Chapter 1: Player Character Ability Scores

Player Character Ability Scores

Rolling Ability Scores

Alternative Dice-Rolling Methods

The Ability Scores

Wisdom

Table 3: Constitution

Table 4: Intelligence

Table 5: Wisdom

Table 6: Charisma

What the Numbers Mean

Chapter 2: Player Character Races

Player Character Races

Minimum and Maximum Ability Scores

Racial Ability Adjustments

Class Restrictions and Level Limits

Languages

Dwarves

Elves

Gnomes

Half-Elves

Halflings

Humans

Other Characteristics

Table 7: Racial Ability Requirements

Table 8: Racial Abilities

Table 9: Constitution Saving Throw Bonuses

Table 10: Average Hieght and Weight

Table 11: Age

Table 12: Aging Effects

Table 13: Class Ability Minimums

Chapter 3: Player Character Classes

Player Character Classes

Class Ability Score Requirements

Class Descriptions

Warrior

Table 14: Warrior Experience Levels

Table 15: Warrior Melee Attacks per Round

Fighter

Table 16: Fighter's Followers

Paladin

Table 17: Paladin Spell Progression

Ranger

Table 18: Ranger Abilities

Table 19: Ranger's Followers

Wizard

Table 20: Wizard Experience Levels

Table 21 Wizard Spell Progression

Mage

Schools of Magic

The Schools of Magic

Specialist Wizards

Table 22: Wizard Specialist Requirements

Illusionist

Priest

Table 23: Priest Experience Levels

Table 24: Priest Spell Progression

Cleric

Priests of Specific Mythoi

Ethos

Druid

Weapons Allowed Druid

Druids, Archdruids, and the Great Druid

The Grand Druid

Rogue

Rogues

Table 25: Rogue Experience Level

Thief

Skill Explanations

Table 26: Thieving Skills Base Scores

Table 27: Thieving Skill Racial Adjustments

Table 28: Thieving Skill Dexterity Adjustments

Table 29: Thieving Skill Armor Adjustments

Table 30: Backstab Damage Multipliers

Table 31: Thief's Followers

Bard

Table 32: Bard Spell Progression

Table 33: Bard Abilities

Multi-Class and Dual-Class Characters

Multi-Class Combinations

Multi-Class Benefits and Restrictions

Dual-Class Benefits and Restrictions

Chapter 4: Alignment

Alignment

Law, Neutrality, and Chaos

Good, Neutrality, and Evil

Alignment Combinations

Non-Aligned Creatures

Playing the Character's Alignment

Changing Alignment

Chapter 5: Proficiencies (Optional)

Proficiencies (Optional)

Acquiring Proficiencies

Training

Table 34: Proficiency Slots

Weapon Proficiencies

Effects of Weapon Proficiencies

Related Weapon Bonus

Table 35: Specialist Attacks Per Round

Weapon Specialization

Cost of Specialization

Effects of Specialization

Nonweapon Proficiencies I

Nonweapon Proficiencies

Using What You Know

Secondary Skills

Table 36: Secondary Skills

Nonweapon Proficiencies II

Nonweapon Proficiencies

Using Nonweapon Proficiencies

Table 37: Nonweapon Proficiency Groups

Table 38: Nonweapon Proficiency Group Crossovers

Table 39: Tracking Modifiers

Table 40: Movement While Tracking

Table 41: Weapon Construction

Nonweapon Proficiency Descriptions

Armorer

Brewing

Cooking

Dancing

Fishing

Forgery

Gaming

Healing

Hunting

Jumping

Mining

Pottery

Running

Singing

Weaving

Chapter 6: Money and Equipment

Money and Equipment

Starting Money

Equipment Lists

Clothing

Daily Food and Lodging

Household Provisioning

Transport

Animals

Services

Tack and Harness

Miscellaneous Equipment

Armor

Weapons

Equipment Descriptions

Tack and Harness

Transport

Miscellaneous Equipment

Weapons

Armor

Armor Sizes

Getting Into and Out of Armor

Creatures with Natural Armor Class

Table 42: Standard Exchange Rates

Table 43: Initial Character Funds

Table 44: Equipment

Table 45: Missile Weapon Ranges

Table 46: Armor Class Ratings

Encumbrance

Encumbrance (Optional Rule)

Basic Encumbrance (Tournament Rule)

Specific Encumbrance (Optional Rule)

Encumbrance and Mounts (Tournament Rule)

Magical Armor and Encumbrance

Effects of Encumbrance

Table 47: Character Encumbrance

Table 48: Modified Movement Rates

Table 49: Carrying Capacities of Animals

Table 50: Stowage Capacity

Chapter 7: Magic

Magic

Wizard Spells

Schools of Magic

Learning Spells

Illusions

Priest Spells

Casting Spells

Spell Components

Magical Research

Spell Descriptions

Chapter 8: Experience

Experience

Group Experience Awards

Individual Experience Awards

Training Experience

Where's the Specific Info?

Chapter 9: Combat

Combat

More Than Just Hack-and-Slash

Table 51: Combat Modifiers

Definitions

Damage

Melee

THAC0

The Attack Roll

Figuring the To-Hit Number

Modifiers to the Attack Roll

Table 51: Combat Modifiers

Weapon Type vs. Armor Modifiers

The Various Types of Weapons

Impossible To-Hit Numbers

Table 52: Weapon Types vs. Armor Modifiers

Calculating THAC0

Table 53: Calculating THAC0S

Table 54: THAC0 Advancement

Combat and Encounters

The Combat Round

What You Can Do in One Round

The Combat Sequence

Initiative

Standard Initiative Procedure

Initiative Modifiers

Group Initiative (Optional Rule)

Individual Initiative

Multiple Attacks and Initiative

Spellcasting and Initiative

Weapon Speed and Initiative (Optional Rule)

Magical Weapon Speeds

Table 55: Standard Modifiers to Initiative

Table 56: Optional Modifiers to Initiative

Attacking with Two Weapons

Table 57: Armor Modifiers for Wrestling

Table 58: Punching and Wrestling Results

Movement in Combat

Movement in Melee

Movement and Missile Combat

Charging an Opponent

Retreat

Attacking Without Killing

Punching and Wrestling

Overbearing

Weapons in Nonlethal Combat

Nonlethal Combat and Creatures

Touch Spells and Combat

Missile Weapons in Combat

Range

Rate of Fire

Ability Modifiers in Missile Combat

Firing into a Melee

Taking Cover Against Missile Fire

Grenade-Like Missiles

Types of Grenade-Like Missiles

Table 59: Cover and Concealment Modifiers

Special Defenses

Parrying

Parrying (Optional Rule)

The Saving Throw

Rolling Saving Throws

Saving Throw Priority

Voluntarily Failing Saving Throws

Ability Checks as Saving Throws

Modifying Saving Throws

Table 60: Character Saving Throws

Magic Resistance

Effects of Magic Resistance

When Magic Resistance Applies

Successful Magic Resistance Rolls

Turning Undead

Evil Priests and Undead

Table 61: Turning Undead

Injury and Death

Wounds

Special Damage

Falling

Paralysis

Energy Drain

Poison

Healing

Natural Healing

Magical Healing

Herbalism and Healing Proficiencies

Character Death

Death From Poison

Death From Massive Damage

Chapter 10: Treasure

Dividing and Storing Treasure

Chapter 11: Encounters

Chapter 12: NPCs

NPCs

Hirelings

Followers

Henchmen

PLayer Character Obligations

Chapter 13: Vision and LIght

Light

Table 62: Visibility Ranges

Table 63: Light Sources

Chapter 14: Time and Movement

Time and Movement

Movement

Jogging and Running (Optional Rule)

Cross-Country Movement

Table 64: Base Movement Rates

Swimming

Holding Your Breath

Climbing

Calculating Success

Climbing Rates

Base Climbing Success Rates

Types of Surfaces

Actions While Climbing

Climbing Tools

Getting Down

Table 65: Base Climbing Success Rates

Table 66: Climbing Modifiers

Table 67: Rates of Climbing

Appendix 1: Spell Lists

Wizard Spells

Priests Spells

Appendix 2: Notes on Spells

Notes on Spells

Adjudicating Illusions

Appendix 3: Wizard Spells

First-Level Spells

Alarm

Cantrip

Enlarge

Erase

Friends

Grease

Jump

Mending

Message

Mount

Sleep

Spook

Taunt

Tenser's Floating Disc

Unseen Servant

Ventriloquism

Wall of Fog

Wizard Mark

Second-Level Spells

Bind

Blur

ESP

Forget

Improved Phantasmal Force

Knock

Protection From Cantrips

Pyrotechnics

Ray of Enfeeblement

Rope Trick

Scare

Shatter

Tasha's Uncontrollable Hideous Laughter

Web

Whispering Wind

Wizard Lock

Third-Level Spells

Blink

Delude

Haste

Invisibility, 10' Radius

Item

Leomund's Tiny Hut

Melf's Minute Meteors

Protection From Evil, 10' Radius

Protection From Normal Missiles

Slow

Wraithform

Fourth-Level Spells

Evard's Black Tentacles

Hallucinatory Terrain

Ice Storm Spell

Illusionary Wall

Improved Invisibility

Leomund's Secure Shelter

Magic Mirror

Massmorph

Minor Creation

Minor Globe of Invulnerability Spell

Monster Summoning II Spell

Otiliuke's Resilient Sphere

Phantasmal Killer Wizard Spell

Plant Growth Wizard Spell

Polymorph Other Spell

Polymorph Self Spell

Rainbow Pattern

Rary's Mnemonic Enhancer

Remove Curse Wizard Spell

Fifth-Level Spells

Advanced Illusion Spell

Airy Water

Animal Growth

Animate Dead Wizard Spell

Avoidance

Bigby's Interposing Hand

Chaos Wizard Spell

Cloudkill Spell

Cone of Cold Spell

Conjure Elemental Wizard Spell

Hold Monster Wizard Spell

Leomund's Lamentable Belaborment

Leomund's Secret Chest

Magic Jar Spell

Major Creation Spell

Monster Summoning III Spell

Mordenkainen's Faithful Hound

Passwall Spell

Seeming

Sending

Transmute Rock to Mud Wizard Spell

Wall of Force

Wall of Iron

Wall of Stone

Sixth-Level Spells

Antimagic Shell Spell

Bigby's Forceful Hand

Chain Lightning Wizard Spell

Conjure Animals Wizard Spell

Contingency

Control Weather Wizard Spell

Ensarement Wizard Spell

Extension III

Eyebite

Geas

Glassee

Globe of Invulnerability

Guards and Wards

Invisible Stalker Spell

Legend Lore Wizard Spell

Lower Water Wizard Spell

Mass Suggestion

Mirage Arcana

Mislead

Monster Summoning IV Spell

Mordenkainen's Lucubration

Move Earth Wizard Spell

Otiluke's Freezing Sphere

Part Water Wizard Spell

Permanent Illusion

Programmed Illusion

Project Image

Reincarnation Wizard Spell

Repulsion Wizard Spell

Shades

Stone to Flesh Wizard Spell

Tenser's Tranformation

Transmute Water to Dust Wizard Spell

True Seeing

Veil

Seventh-Level Spells

Banishment

Bigby's Grasping Hand

Charm Plants Wizard Spell

Control Undead Spell

Delayed Blast Fireball

Drawmij's Instant Summons

Monster Summoning V Spell

Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion

Mordenkainen's Sword

Phase Door

Power Word Stun

Prismatic Spray Spell

Reverse Gravity Wizard Spell

Sequester Wizard Spell

Shadow Walk

Simulacrum

Spell Turning

Statue

Teleport Without Error

Vanish

Vision Wizard Spell

Trap the Soul

Eighth-Level Spells

Antipathy-Sympathy

Bigby's Clenched Fist

Binding Wizard Spell

Clone Spell

Demand

Glassteel

Incendiary Cloud Spell

Mass Charm Wizard Spell

Maze

Mind Blank

Monster Summoning VI Spell

Otiluke's Telekinetic Sphere

Otto's Irresistable Dance

Serten's Spell Immunity

Sink Spell

Symbol Wizard Spell

Ninth-Level Spells

Astral Spell Wizard Spell

Bigby's Crushing Hand

Crystalbrittle

Energy Drain Wizard Spell

Monster Summoning VII Spell

Mordenkainen's Disjunction

Appendix 4: Priest Spells

Priest Spells

First-Level Spells

Animal Friendship

Bless Priest Spell

Combine

Command

Create Water

Cure Light Wounds

Detect Evil Priest Spell

Detect Magic Priest Spell

Detect Poison

Detect Snares and Pits

Endure Cold/Endure Heat

Entangle Spell

Faerie Fire

Invisibility to Animals

Invisibility to Undead

Light Priest Spell

Locate Animals or Plants

Magical Stone

Pass Without Trace

Protection From Evil Priest Spell

Purify Food and Drink

Remove Fear

Sanctuary

Shillelagh

Second-Level Spells

Aid Spell

Augury

Barkskin

Chant

Charm Person Priest Spells

Fire Trap Priest Spell

Flame Blade

Goodberry

Heat Metal

Hold Person Priest Spell

Know Alignment Priest Spell

Messenger

Obscurement

Produce Flame

Resist Fire/Resist Cold Spell

Third-Level Spells

Animate Dead Priest Spell

Call Lightning Priest Spell

Continual Light Priest Spell

Create Food and Drink

Cure Blindness

Cure Disease

Dispel Magic Priest Spell

Feign Death Priest Spell

Flame Walk

Glyph of Warding

Hold Animal

Locate Object Priest Spell

Magical Vestment

Meld Into Stone

Negative Plane Protection

Plant Growth

Prayer

Protection From Fire

Pyrotechnics Priest Spell

Remove Curse Priest Spell

Stone Shape Priest Spell

Summon Insects Priest Spell

Tree

Water Breathing Priest Spell

Water Walk

Fourth-Level Spells

Abjure

Animal Summoning I

Call Woodland Beings

Cloak of Bravery

Control Temperature, 10' Radius

Cure Serious Wounds

Detect Lie

Divination Priest Spell

Imbue With Spell Ability

Lower Water Priest Spell

Neutralize Poison Priest Spell

Plant Door

Produce Fire Priest Spell

Protection From Evil, 10' Radius Priest Spell

Protection From Lightning

Reflecting Pool

Repel Insects

Speak With Plants

Spell Immunity Priest Spell

Sticks to Snakes

Tongues Priest Spell

Fifth-Level Spells

Air Walk

Animal Growth Priest Spell

Commune With Nature Spell

Planr Shift Priest Spell

Quest Priest Spell

Rainbow

Raise Dead Spell

Spike Stones

Transmute Rock to Mud Priest Spell

True Seeing Spell

Wall of Fire Priest Spell

Sixth-Level Spells

Conjure Fire Elemental

Liveoak

Part Water Priest Spell

Speak With Monsters

Stone Tell

Transmute Water to Dust Priest Spell

Transport Via Plants

Turn Wood

Wall of Thorns

Weather Summoning Priest Spell

Word of Recall

Seventh-Level Spells

Animate Rock

Astral Spell Priest Spell

Changestaff

Chariot Sustarre

Confusion Priest Spell

Conjure Earth Elemental

Control Weather Priest Spell

Reincarnate Priest Spell

Sunray

Transmute Metal to Wood

Wind Walk

Appendix 5: Wizard Spells by School

Abjuration

Alteration

Conjuration/Summoning

Enchantment/Charm

Illusion/Phantasm

Invocation/Evocation

Lesser/Greater Divination

Necromancy

Appendix 6: Priest Spells by Sphere

All

Animal

Astral

Charm

Combat

Healing

Plant

Sun

Weather

Appendix 7: Spell Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Appendix 8: Compiled Character Generation Tables

Table 1: Strength

Table 2: Dexterity

Table 3: Constitution

Table 4: Intelligence

Table 5: Wisdom

Table 6: Charisma

Table 7: Racial Ability Requirements

Table 8: Racial Ability Adjustments

Table 9: Constitution Saving Throw Bonuses

Table 13: Class Ability Minimums

Table 18: Ranger Abilities

Table 21: Wizard Spell Progression

Table 22: Wizard Specialist Requirements

Table 25: Priest Spell Progression

Table 26: Thieving Skill Base Scores

Table 27: Thieving Skill Racial Adjustments

Table 28: Thieving Skill Dexterity Adjustments

Table 29: Thieving Skill Armor Adjustments

Table 30 Backstab Damage Multipliers

Table 32: Bard Spell Progression

Table 33: Bard Abilities

Table 43: Initial Character Funds

Table 46: Armor Class Ratings

Table 53: Calculated THAC0S

Table 61: Turning Undead

Tables

Table 1: Strength

Table 2: Dexterity

Table 3: Constitution

Table 4: Intelligence

Table 5: Wisdom

Table 6: Charisma

Table 7: Racial Ability Requirements

Table 8: Racial Abilities

Table 9: Constitution Saving Throw Bonuses

Table 10: Average Hieght and Weight

Table 11: Age

Table 12: Aging Effects

Table 13: Class Ability Minimums

Table 14: Warrior Experience Levels

Table 15: Warrior Melee Attacks per Round

Table 16: Fighter's Followers

Table 17: Paladin Spell Progression

Table 18: Ranger Abilities

Table 19: Ranger's Followers

Table 20: Wizard Experience Levels

Table 21 Wizard Spell Progression

Table 22: Wizard Specialist Requirements

Table 23: Priest Experience Levels

Table 24: Priest Spell Progression

Table 25: Rogue Experience Level

Table 26: Thieving Skills Base Scores

Table 27: Thieving Skill Racial Adjustments

Table 28: Thieving Skill Dexterity Adjustments

Table 29: Thieving Skill Armor Adjustments

Table 30: Backstab Damage Multipliers

Table 31: Thief's Followers

Table 32: Bard Spell Progression

Table 33: Bard Abilities

Table 34: Proficiency Slots

Table 35: Specialist Attacks Per Round

Table 36: Secondary Skills

Table 37: Nonweapon Proficiency Groups

Table 38: Nonweapon Proficiency Group Crossovers

Table 39: Tracking Modifiers

Table 40: Movement While Tracking

Table 41: Weapon Construction

Table 42: Standard Exchange Rates

Table 43: Initial Character Funds

Table 44: Equipment

Table 45: Missile Weapon Ranges

Table 46: Armor Class Ratings

Table 47: Character Encumbrance

Table 48: Modified Movement Rates

Table 49: Carrying Capacities of Animals

Table 50: Stowage Capacity

Table 51: Combat Modifiers

Table 52: Weapon Types vs. Armor Modifiers

Table 53: Calculating THAC0S

Table 54: THAC0 Advancement

Table 55: Standard Modifiers to Initiative

Table 56: Optional Modifiers to Initiative

Table 57: Armor Modifiers for Wrestling

Table 58: Punching and Wrestling Results

Table 59: Cover and Concealment Modifiers

Table 60: Character Saving Throws

Table 61: Turning Undead

Table 62: Visibility Ranges

Table 63: Light Sources

Table 64: Base Movement Rates

Table 65: Base Climbing Success Rates

Table 66: Climbing Modifiers

Table 67: Rates of Climbing