The Complete Priest's Handbook

The Complete Priest's Handbook is a 2^nd-edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons accessory.

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Clerics have long been players' favorites, but now there are new priest characters for your gaming enjoyment! Within these pages are new rules for mythos-specific priests, guidelines for creating mythoi of your own, how-to's for making new priesthoods. Also here are new Priest Kits, so you can play a fighting monk, an amazon priestess, a savage priest, or even a peasant priest (among many others). All this and more is presented in these 128 pages, the newest accessory for players and DMs

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Description[]

The Complete Priest's Handbook is the 3^rd book in the Player's Handbook Rules series.

This supplement includes guidelines for creating mythlogical history, designing faiths, detailing where special powers come from, duties of priests, rights and restrictions, how to role-play priest characters, and also the relationship a priest has with followers and believers. The book includes rules for "priest kits" (subclasses), including fighting-monks, pacifists, scholars, and prophets, and there are 60 sample priesthoods based on generic principles.^[1]

It provides noble priests, outlaw priests, fighting monks, amazon priestesses, and other “priest kits”; priest personality archetypes like the crusader, philosopher, hypocrite, and earnest novice; 60 sample priesthoods of deities for agriculture, birth, disease, elemental forces, hunting, literature, oceans, oracles, trade, wind, wisdom, and more; and rules for designing new faiths. There are new weapons and equipment, martial-arts rules, and adventure hooks for priest characters.^[2]

Contents[]

Priests, Gods, and the World
Designing Faiths
Sample Priesthoods
Priest Kits
Role-Playing
Equipment and Combat

Gallery[]

Credits[]

Project Design: Aaron Allston
Editing: Karen S. Boomgarden
Black and White Art by: Thomas Baxa
Color Art by: Erik Olson, Larry Elmore and David Dorman
Typography: Gaye O'Keefe
Decial Contributions by: Mark Bennett
Playtesters: Luray Richmond, Mark Richmond

Appendix[]

External Links[]

Dungeon Masters Guild product page

References[]

↑ Lawrence Schick (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. (Prometheus Books), p. 109–110. ISBN 0-87975-653-5.
↑ Roger E. Moore (January 1991). “Role-Playing Reviews”. In Allen Varney ed. Dragon #165 (TSR, Inc.), p. 68–69.

Connections[]

Player's Handbook Rules (PHBR) series
Race books	The Complete Book of Dwarves • The Complete Book of Elves • The Complete Book of Gnomes & Halflings • The Complete Book of Humanoids
Class books	The Complete Barbarian's Handbook • The Complete Bard's Handbook • The Complete Druid's Handbook • The Complete Fighter's Handbook • The Complete Ninja's Handbook • The Complete Paladin's Handbook • The Complete Priest's Handbook • The Complete Psionics Handbook • The Complete Ranger's Handbook • The Complete Thief's Handbook • The Complete Wizard's Handbook

[1] Lawrence Schick (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. (Prometheus Books), p. 109–110. ISBN 0-87975-653-5.

[2] Roger E. Moore (January 1991). “Role-Playing Reviews”. In Allen Varney ed. Dragon #165 (TSR, Inc.), p. 68–69.

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