Here's the ultimate version of the DMG for Gygax purists. this is the book that once you put down, never really stays down. As a book conosour who enjoys nothing more than a classic, this my friends, is a classic that you can never really "finish" reading.
Yes, indeed, everything a player could need to know, save what is contained soley in the Dungeon Master Guide (In which case it isn't for a player anyhow.) can be found somewhere in the painstakingly categorized and eloquently worded text. Everything from armor class, to hit ratios, character stats, race abilities, and more are preserved between the gorgeous, hardback cover. It includes everything a player would need to know for successful expeditions in the worlds of make-believe. Gygax, its creator (Sorry Gary if you preferred another version or game, but this one was my far my favorite.). First edition had no appostrophe.)Handbook," was in my humble opinion, the master work of Mr. This book, "Advanced D & D Players(Yes, I can spell. What a gift! I tell you, since then I've hosted so many campaigns and enticed many freinds and aquaintances to play. That was matched in the text, which was expanded along those lines even more in the 3.5e revisions: DMs and players were given many more tools to make "weird" campaigns if they so desired than they were in AD&D's core books.I got this book for the first time about a year ago when my girlfreind bought me the entire first edition set. Similarly, the art within the 3e books was intended to present characters adventuring in times and places that didn't correspond strictly to the traditional ideas of D&D campaigns that held sway before then (with varying success, in my opinion). The drastic change in the 3/3.5e PHB/DMG covers from those for 1e and 2e delivered a mission statement about setting and tone that was, as I understand it, intentional they hinted at a game of spells and swords, but built across a far wider potential range of settings and tones. That meshed with the text in those books, which explained that settings other than that were possible (and that you could buy products to help realize them) but otherwise helped mostly to create characters and campaigns within that same sort of setting. One thing I came to notice about both examples of the 2nd Edition Player's Handbook cover art (and the similar art found in most places in the Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide) was how thoroughly it suggested a specific setting for games using the rules, that is, a fantasy pseudo-medieval Europe with some wilder, more barbaric places within it or nearby it, located in a conceptual space somewhere between Lord of the Rings and Conan the Barbarian, with a dash of Western-Classical-Era heroic myth thrown in for good measure.
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