Complete Ninja's Handbook

Player's Handbook Rules Supplement #PHBR15

by Aaron Allston

Superhuman feats of skill and daring are the stock in trade of the fearless warriors known as ninja. This 128-page accessory gives you all the information you need to role-play exotic ninja, lone wolf operatives, and other character types - new character kits, special rules, and descriptions of the ninja's unique weapons and equipment. The Complete Ninja's Handbook brings life to these shadowy figures of myth and legend.

Genres: Role Playing Games, Fantasy, Gaming, Games, Dungeons and Dragons, Fiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1995

About the author

Aaron Dale Allston was an American game designer and author of many science fiction books, notably Star Wars novels. His works as a game designer include game supplements for role-playing games, several of which served to establish the basis for products and subsequent development of TSR's Dungeons & Dragons game setting Mystara. His later works as a novelist include those of the X-Wing series: Wraith Squadron, Iron Fist, Solo Command, Starfighters of Adumar, and Mercy Kill. He wrote two entries in the New Jedi Order series: Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream and Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand. Allston wrote three of the nine Legacy of the Force novels: Betrayal, Exile, and Fury, and three of the nine Fate of the Jedi novels: Outcast, Backlash, and Conviction.

Reviews

[Little Timmy · Rating 3 out of 5]

NINJAS! Who doesn't love Ninjas? Well your players might not once you use all you learn in this excellent reference book to add them to the game. Very well laid out and written. Recommended

[Juho Pohjalainen · Rating 3 out of 5]

The martial arts rules are a lot of fun, but you'll want to be careful lest you end up mucking up the game too much with them. I think I prefer the original Oriental Adventures ninja, though, for some better abilities and a bunch of multiclass-induced flavour.

This book also contains some of the weirdest and most ridiculous nonweapon proficiencies. As good argument as any to not bother with the whole subsystem at all.