An essential reference for every Dungeons & Dragons roleplayer, this text contains rules for character creation and advancement, backgrounds and skills, exploration and combat, equipment, spells, and much more.

"The Player's handbook features the 4th edition game rules, including character creation, combat and adventuring, classes and races, equipment and magic items, skills, feats, powers, and more"--Cover p. [4].

"Player's Handbook 2 is the most significant expansion to the 4th edition Dungeons & Dragons game. This companion to the 'Player's handbook' core rulebook introduces the primal power source, which draws on the spirits that preserve and sustain the world. This book includes four classes tied to the primal power source: the barbarian, the druid, the shaman, and the warden. It also presents four new arcane and divine classes: the avenger, the bard, the invoker, and the sorcerer"--Back cover.