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Dungeons & Dragons sourcebooks
- Acquisitions IncorporatedIn 2008, the creators of Penny Arcade partnered with Wizards of the Coast to create an actual play podcast. This collaboration produced a few fourth edition…
- Wizards Presents: Races and ClassesWizards Presents: Races and Classes arrived in December 2007 with an unusual proposition: here was a book about a game that did not yet exist.
- Dungeons & Dragons Starter SetTSR, Inc. published four starter sets for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons between 1994 and 1999. Shannon Appelcline noted that by 1993 the Basic D&D line ended…
- Guildmasters' Guide to RavnicaThe sky over Ravnica never holds more than one moon, yet the ground beneath it stretches endlessly in every direction. This single city spans an entire…
- Mythic Odysseys of TherosJames Wyatt began writing free PDF releases called Plane Shift in 2016. He was a longtime Wizards employee who had worked on Dungeons & Dragons for over a…
- Dungeons & Dragons Rules CyclopediaThe Dungeons and Dragons Rules Cyclopedia arrived in 1991 as something unusual: a single 304-page hardback that gathered years of scattered rulebooks into…
- Tasha's Cauldron of EverythingTasha's Cauldron of Everything arrived on the shelves of local game stores and online retailers on the 17th of November 2020.
- Dungeons & Dragons Basic SetThe Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set arrived in 1977 promising something simple: a way in. Before it existed, the fantasy role-playing game that Gary Gygax and…
- Monster ManualMonster Manual is the collection of creature rules TSR published in 1977 as the first hardcover book in the Dungeons & Dragons line. Games journalist David M.
- Dungeon Master's GuideThe Dungeon Master's Guide sits on the table, but only one person is allowed to open it during play. Every player in a game of Dungeons & Dragons needs a…
- Greyhawk (supplement)Greyhawk, a slim 68-page booklet published in early March 1975, has been called the first and most important supplement to the original Dungeons and Dragons…
- Blackmoor (supplement)Blackmoor, a sixty-page digest-sized booklet published by TSR, Inc. in 1975, quietly slipped into the hands of tabletop gamers carrying something no rulebook…
- Dungeons & Dragons (1974)Dungeons & Dragons arrived in 1974 in a brown wood-grain box, digest-sized, with a subtitle that sprawled across the packaging: Rules for Fantastic Medieval…
- Dungeons & Dragons Game (1991 boxed set)The New Easy-to-Master Dungeons & Dragons Game arrived in 1991 with a promise built right into its name: that the world's most famous fantasy role-playing…
- Dungeons & Dragons Master RulesDungeons & Dragons Master Rules arrived in 1985 with a promise that few tabletop games had dared to make: that a character could grow powerful enough to rule…
- Dungeons & Dragons Companion SetThe Dungeons & Dragons Companion Set arrived in 1984 with an unusual promise: your character has killed every monster in the Monster Manual, collected every…
- Dungeons & Dragons Expert SetThe Dungeons and Dragons Expert Set arrived in 1981 with a question baked into its design: what happens after you survive the dungeon?
- Unearthed ArcanaUnearthed Arcana arrived in 1985 with a promise that Gary Gygax himself had made in the March issue of Dragon magazine: a book that would gather scattered…
- Dungeons & Dragons Immortals RulesThe Dungeons and Dragons Immortals Rules asks a question most game designers never dare to pose: what happens after a character reaches the top?
- Monstrous CompendiumMonstrous Compendium arrived in 1989 not as a bound book, but as loose-leaf pages meant to be filed inside a three-ring binder.
- Player's HandbookThe Player's Handbook became, in 2024, what Wizards of the Coast called "the fastest-selling Dungeons & Dragons product ever." The company also called it…
- Spelljammer: Adventures in SpaceThe Spelljammer: Adventures in Space boxed set arrived on the 16th of August 2022. It contained three distinct sourcebooks alongside a Dungeon Master's…