Perhaps one of the better supplements. This book contains a great deal of information on running a dark campaign. It is a perfect add on for Saniya: Pandora’s Box, as both deal with dark worlds and shadowed menaces. Saniya: Pandora’s Box provides a very solid base that, with the addition of the Heroes of Horror, provides most of what one needs to enter into new version of a Ravenloft-styled game.

A must have along with Saniya: Pandora’s Box. This is the revised 3.5 edition of the Player’s Handbook. Some of the rules have been changed (shields anyone?), and art has been changed. Otherwise, it is the same as the 3.0 edition. Either will work. As a gift, you may wish to purchase the leather bound “Special Edition” of the Player’s Handbook 3.5 edition.

If you can find this, the Epic Level Handbook allows you to advance your D&D d20 characters past 20th level. The epic spell section is wonderfully complex and varied; allowing creative players to create spells that work. There are also a host of monsters that are insanely tough, even for epic characters. Going against them, expect to die, or at least suffer severe harm!

The Psychic’s Handbook offers an optional system for psionic powers – a skill-based system. Psychic powers inflict Subdual Damage as they are used. This means that a few good hits in combat renders you unable to manifest your psychic powers. This makes it far more realistic, but also leaves the players at a disadvantage. This system is also referenced in Saniya: Pandora’s Box.

This is the start of the new 4th edition of Dungeons and Dragons. This is the Player’s Handbook. It will provide the players with the information they need to begin their quests in the new world of D&D 4th.

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