Player's Handbook

The 1978 Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook, first printing Dave Trampier's cover, adventurers looting a towering idol, is often called the most homaged cover in roleplaying, and it is the main reason this book is so prized. Inside are the first edition AD&D classes, spells and rules that a generation of players learned from. A true first printing, from August 1978, carries the TSR wizard logo and has a white flyleaf. Check both before treating a copy as a first, because the Trampier painting stayed on the cover through several later printings.