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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viktyr Gehrig" data-source="post: 5506935" data-attributes="member: 9249">Everything I'd recommend is highly conditional. I can't see the database from the link provided, but here's what I consider essential to 2e. If there's anything you already have in your collection, I apologize.The Player's Option series, including Skills & Powers, Combat & Tactics, and Spells & Magic. Whether you allow players access to these books or not, they're an invaluable tool for customizing your campaign world. You can use the standard point-buy rules to design your own subraces of all of the standard AD&D races and the Priest rules in Spells & Magic provide more robust guidelines for building specialty priests than even the Complete Priest's Handbook. I consider the proficiency systems to be better than the standard proficiency rules and use the weapon mastery and martial arts rules in Combat & Tactics.The Complete Book of Humanoids contains rules for all of the major humanoid races to be used as PCs and contains a good amount of material for dealing with them other than as PC races are disposable enemies.The Complete Ninja's Handbook contains mystical martial arts rules that can be converted to the Combat & Tactics system with little trouble.If you'd like to expand the cultural diversity of your D&D source material, the Kara Tur, Al Qadim and Maztica boxed sets provide a wealth of material for cultures derived from East Asia, the Middle East, and Mesoamerica respectively. With the exception of Al Qadim they are, in my opinion, too fixated upon real-world history and not enough on the folklore of the regions they're based on, but they're a good start.On that note, the basic boxed sets for each campaign setting are good. If you like Planescape, the Planeswalker's Handbook is essential and the the Dead Gods, Well of Worlds, and The Great Modron March are some of the best adventure modules available.For Spelljammer, the Complete Spacefarer's Handbook is an essential resource, and the three Known Space sourcebooks-- Greyspace, Krynnspace, and Realmspace-- provide enough material to keep you going for awhile, especially if you have a lot of stuff for the settings individually. If you like psionics, regardless of whether or not you like Dark Sun, The Will and the Way is an excellent sourcebook. Thri-Kreen of Athas is one of my favorite AD&D books of all time, but it's kinda niche outside of Dark Sun.</blockquote>

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