Hero Builder's Guidebook

by Ryan Dancey, David Noonan, John Rateliff

Give your character every advantage.
When you sit down to create a character, let your mind do the work -- don't just leave it to the dice. The "Hero Builder's Guidebook" puts at your fingertops everything you need to know before your character's first adventure. With this book, you will:
Maximize your charactger's potential with step-by-step character advancement guides.
Create a compelling backstory for your characer, including family, friends, and enemies.
Pick from more than 70 variants to the class descriptions in the "Player's Handbook."
Choose personality traits to bring your character to life at the gaming table.
Both players and Dungeon Masters benefit from the detailed character backgrounds in this book.

Genres: Gaming, Role Playing Games, Fantasy, Games, Dungeons and Dragons

64 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2000

Reviews

[R J Royer · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good book for DnD that I am giving away to someone that will hopefully use it with their game.

[Derek · Rating 1 out of 5]

Now I'm not the kind of guy who blames a company for trying to make a buck, but this book in particular was just shameless mining, and worse yet preying on the new players who can be easily turned off by the expense of the game. It gives some basic advice (much of which can be found in the PHB, the rest of which can be found in any one of a thousand RPG message boards) on character backgound developement and building without providing any useful information.

[Mike (the Paladin) · Rating 1 out of 5]

Well, if your playing 3rd edition (possibly 3.5) D&D this book is applicable. i found that a DM had to be very, circumspect about alloying some of the ideas here as in 3rd edition players can get very powerful very fast.

[Katrina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good building blocks and guidelines for quickly building your D&D 3e/3.5e character before fleshing it out! While written for 3e, it's definitely applicable for 3.5e.