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Role Playing Books
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Vampire: The Masquerade Revised (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 3,045 ratings — published 1991
Player's Handbook (Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as role-playing)
avg rating 4.57 — 14,958 ratings — published 2014
Monster Manual (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 1st Edition)
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avg rating 4.26 — 2,632 ratings — published 1977
Player's Handbook (Dungeons & Dragons, 3.5rd Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as role-playing)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,291 ratings — published 2003
Legends and Lore: Cyclopedia of Gods and Heroes from Myth and Legend (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 1st Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as role-playing)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,806 ratings — published 1980
Players Handbook (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 1st Edition)
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avg rating 4.29 — 2,595 ratings — published 1978
Player's Handbook (Dungeons & Dragons, 3rd Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as role-playing)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,988 ratings — published 2000
Shadowrun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as role-playing)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,497 ratings — published 1991
Player's Handbook (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 2nd Edition)
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avg rating 4.07 — 2,463 ratings — published 1989
Dungeon Masters Guide (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 1st Edition)
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avg rating 4.36 — 2,324 ratings — published 1979
Dungeon Master's Guide (Dungeons & Dragons, 3rd Edition)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,348 ratings — published 2000
Monster Manual II (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 1st Edition)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,125 ratings — published 1983
Manual of the Planes (Dungeons & Dragons, 3rd Edition)
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avg rating 3.79 — 1,374 ratings — published 1987
Monster Manual (Dungeons & Dragons, 3.5rd Edition)
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avg rating 4.10 — 2,120 ratings — published 2003
Fiend Folio (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 1st Edition)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,596 ratings — published 1981
Player's Handbook (Dungeons & Dragons, 4th Edition)
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avg rating 3.45 — 1,554 ratings — published 2008
Monster Manual (Dungeons & Dragons, 3rd Edition)
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avg rating 3.89 — 1,734 ratings — published 2000
Mage: The Ascension (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 1,195 ratings — published 1993
Savage Worlds Explorer's Edition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 1,173 ratings — published 2003
Dungeon Master's Guide (Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition)
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avg rating 4.49 — 8,044 ratings — published 2014
Core Rulebook (Pathfinder, 1st Edition)
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avg rating 4.32 — 3,055 ratings — published 2009
Dungeon Master's Guide (Dungeons & Dragons, 3.5rd Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as role-playing)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,557 ratings — published 2003
Monstrous Manual (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 2nd Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as role-playing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,310 ratings — published 1993
Dungeon Master's Guide (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 2nd Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as role-playing)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,945 ratings — published 1989
Tome of Magic (Advanced Dungeon & Dragons, 2th Edition)
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avg rating 3.78 — 616 ratings — published 1991
Unearthed Arcana (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 1st Edition)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,099 ratings — published 1985
Oriental Adventures (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 1st Edition)
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avg rating 3.72 — 947 ratings — published 1985
Monster Manual (Dungeons & Dragons, 4th Edition)
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avg rating 3.54 — 774 ratings — published 2008
Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Play It (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 5,130 ratings — published 2013
The Complete Ranger's Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as role-playing)
avg rating 3.61 — 508 ratings — published 1993
The Forgotten Realms: Campaign Set (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,189 ratings — published 1987
The Complete Wizard's Handbook (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.60 — 685 ratings — published 1990
Forgotten Realms: Adventures (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Stock #2106)
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avg rating 3.86 — 690 ratings — published 1990
Complete Adventurer (Dungeons & Dragons Edition 3.5)
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avg rating 3.74 — 949 ratings — published 2005
The World of Darkness (Main Rulebook)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,479 ratings — published 2004
Monster Manual (Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition)
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avg rating 4.56 — 6,291 ratings — published 2014
The Isle of Dread (Dungeons and Dragons Module X1)
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avg rating 3.89 — 453 ratings — published 1981
Call of Cthulhu: Horror Roleplaying (Call of Cthulhu RPG)
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avg rating 4.46 — 8,228 ratings — published 1981
Monster Manual II (Dungeons & Dragons, 3rd Edition)
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avg rating 3.81 — 1,334 ratings — published 2002
Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (Dungeons & Dragons, 3rd Edition)
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avg rating 4.20 — 2,174 ratings — published 2001
Dungeons and Dragons Basic Rules (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 1,816 ratings — published 1981
The Complete Fighter's Handbook (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 556 ratings — published 1989
Xanathar's Guide to Everything (Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition)
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avg rating 4.48 — 3,660 ratings — published 2017
GURPS Basic Set (GURPS Third Edition)
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avg rating 3.80 — 735 ratings — published 1989
Fate Core System (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 922 ratings — published 2013
Advanced Player’s Guide (Pathfinder, 1st Edition)
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avg rating 4.27 — 872 ratings — published 2010
The Complete Thief's Handbook (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 768 ratings — published 1990
The Complete Priest's Handbook (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.48 — 463 ratings — published 1990
Player's Option: Skills & Powers (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 238 ratings — published 1995
Savage Species: Playing Monstrous Characters (Dungeons & Dragons, 3rd Edition)
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avg rating 3.62 — 534 ratings — published 2003
“Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.”
― So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
― So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
“Real life this fdar had taught me that in the adult world, fate was chaotic and uncertain. Guidelines for success were arbitrary. But in the world of D&D, at least there was a rule book... By role-playing, we were in control, and our characters... wandered through places of danger, their destinies, ostensibly, within our grasp.”
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