Publication:Player's Handbook II

Player's Handbook II

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System: Dungeons and Dragons 3.5e  Abbreviation: PHB2  Author: David Noonan  Publisher: Wizards of the Coast  Item Code: 953747200  Publication Date: May 2006  Format: Hardcover  Page Count: 224  ISBN-10: 0-7869-3918-4  Price: $34.95 ; C$46.95

Product Blurb A follow-up to the Player’s Handbook designed to aid players and provide more character options. The Player’s Handbook II builds upon existing materials in the Player’s Handbook. This is the first direct followup to the best-selling and most used D&D rulebook. It is specifically designed to expand the options available for players by both providing new material and increasing the uses for existing rules. Included are chapters on character race, background, classes, feats, spells, character creation, and character advancement. New rules include racial affiliations that make race matter as a character advances in level, new character classes and alternate class features for existing classes, new feats, tools for rapid character creation, and additional organization and teamwork benefits -- an option first introduced in Dungeon Master’s Guide II and Heroes of Battle. This text is quoted from promotion material. Text and images are copyrighted by the original publisher.

Feats

Feats

Name	Page	Description
Acrobatic Strike	71	Your dexterous maneuvers and skilled acrobatics allow you to slip past a foe's defenses and deliver an accurate strike against him.
Active Shield Defense	71	Your expert use of your shield allows you to strike at vulnerable foes even when you forgo your own attacks in favor of defense.
Adaptable Flanker	71	When you and an ally team up against a foe, you know how to maximize the threat your ally poses to ruin your target's defenses.
Agile Shield Fighter	74	You are skilled in combining your shield bash attack with an armed strike. When you use your shield in unison with a weapon, your training allows you to score telling blows with both.
Arcane Accompaniment	74	You infuse your performance with magical energy, allowing its effects to continue even as you attend to other tasks.
Arcane Consumption	74	You can sacrifice your physical health to strengthen a spell. This process leaves you wracked with pain, but the enhanced energy you draw from the spell might provide the margin between victory and defeat.
Arcane Flourish	74	You use your magical abilities to improve your performance talents.
Arcane Thesis	74	You have studied a single spell in-depth.
Arcane Toughness	75	You draw upon the power of your magic to sustain yourself, allowing you to continue fighting long after your physical body has failed you.
Armor Specialization	75	Through long wear and hours of combat, you have trained your body to believe in its armor.
Blood-Spiked Charger	92	You throw yourself into the fray, using your spiked armor and spiked shield to tear your opponents to pieces.
Battle Dancer	75	You strike at your foes in time with the music you sing or in cadence with an oration you deliver.
Blistering Spell	91	Your fire spells sear the flesh from your enemies' bones, leaving them wracked with pain.
Bonded Familiar	75	You enjoy a stronger than normal magical bond with your familiar, granting you access to two special abilities.
Bounding Assault	75	You can move and attack with superior speed and power.
Brutal Strike	76	You can batter foes senseless with your mace, morningstar, quarterstaff, or flail.
Celestial Sorcerer Aura	90	The power of your sorcerous heritage shines through, allowing you to infuse the area around you with a menacing aura.
Celestial Sorcerer Heritage	90	Your ancestry manifests in the form of several special abilities.
Celestial Sorcerer Lance	90	You can channel your arcane energy into a bolt of power that is baneful to evil creatures.
Celestial Sorcerer Lore	90	The power of your ancestry grants you access to a variety of new spells.
Celestial Sorcerer Wings	91	You channel your inborn magical abilities to spawn a pair of spectral, magical wings that glow with majestic power.
Combat Acrobat	76	Your acrobatics and agility in combat allow you to maneuver across the battlefield with ease.
Combat Awareness	86	When you maintain your combat focus, you have an uncanny ability to sense the ebb and flow of your opponents' vitality.
Combat Cloak Expert	93	You are adept at turning your cloak into a vital part of your combat repertoire.
Combat Defense	87	The state of keen focus and mental discipline you attain in combat allows you to shift the focus of yoru defense from one opponent to another with careful, precise maneuvers.
Combat Familiar	76	Your familiar is skilled in delivering attack spells againstyour foes.
Combat Focus	87	The way of the warrior requires more than simple, brute strength.
Combat Panache	93	Your glowing personality and sharp performance abilities allow you to navigate the battlefield on sheer chutzpah alone.
Combat Stability	87	When you maintain your combat focus, you become difficult to dislodge.
Combat Strike	87	Your intense, focused state allows you to see the one critical moment in a battle when you hang suspended between victory and defeat.
Combat Tactician	77	You excel at approaching an opponent from an unexpected direction to deliver deadly attacks.
Combat Vigor	88	When you maintain your combat focus, your clarity of purpose and relentless drive allow you to overcome your body's frailties.
Cometary Collision	77	You are a thunderbolt of destruction on the battlefield.
Companion Spellbond	77	You form a special magical link with your animal companion, allowing you to share spells with it over a greater distance.
Crossbow Sniper	77	You are skilled in lining up accurate, deadly shots with your crossbow.
Crushing Strike	78	You wield a bludgeoning weapon with superior power, allowing you to batter aside an opponent's defenses.
Cunning Evasion	78	When an area attack detonates around you, you use the chaos and flash of energy to duck out of sight.
Dampen Spell	78	From the lowliest prestidigitator to the most august hierophant, spellcasters both arcane and divine recognize the power of counterspelling.
Deadeye Shot	78	You carefully line up a ranged attack, timing it precisely so that you hit your opponent when his guard is down.
Defensive Sweep	78	You sweep your weapon through the area you threaten, warding away opponents and forcing them to move away or suffer a fearsome blow.
Divine Armor	88	You call upon your deity to protect you in your hour of need by wreathing you in divine power that wards off your enemies' attacks.
Divine Fortune	88	With a quick prayer, you channel divine energy to help resist a spell, poison, or other deadly effect.
Divine Justice	88	You can channel divine energy to turn your foe's strength against him, striking him with the same force that he used against you.
Divine Ward	88	You create a channel of divine energy between yourself and a willing ally.
Driving Attack	78	When you strike an opponent with a piercing weapon, the brutal impact of your strike sends him sprawling.
Earthbound Spell	91	You bind a spell into the rock and soil, leaving it there until an opponent stumbles across it.
Einhander	94	You excel at wielding a one-handed weapon while carrying nothing in your off hand.
Elven Spell Lore	78	You have studied the mighty arcane traditions of the elven, granting you insight into the intricate workings of magic and the theoretical structures behind spells.
Fade into Violence	79	While the chaos of battle swirls around you, you rely on your ability to slip into the background to avoid your enemy's notice.
Fiery Fist	79	By channeling your kienergy, you sheathe your limbs in magical fire.
Fiery KiDefense	79	You channel your kienergy into a cloak of flame that injures any who attempt to strike you.
Flash Frost Spell	91	Your spells that use cold and ice to damage your foes leave behind a thin layer of slippery frost.
Flay	79	When fighting unarmored opponents, you excel at twisting your weapon just before impact.
Grenadier	79	You are skilled in using grenadelike weapons.
Hindering Opportunist	79	When you have a chance to strike a distracted foe, you instead use that opportunity to aid or protect an ally against him.
Imbued Summoning	92	Your summoning spells gain an element of surprise.
Infernal Sorcerer Eyes	91	Your eyes glow with infernal fire, allowing you to see through magical darkness.
Infernal Sorcerer Heritage	91	Your innate magic derives from infernal ancestors.
Infernal Sorcerer Howl	91	You channel the fury of your infernal ancesters into a thunderous roar that blasts your enemies with sonic power.
Infernal Sorcerer Resistance	91	You are as tough and resilient as an infernal monstrosity, allowing you to shrug off acid and cold damage.
Intimidating Strike	79	You make a display of your combat prowess designed to strike terror in your foe.
Indomitable Soul	80	Your physical toughness translates into greater mental resiliency.
Keen-Eared Scout	80	Your sharp sense of hearing allows you to determine much more about your surroundings.
KiBlast	80	You focus your kiinto a ball of energy that you can hurl at an opponent.
Leap of the Heavens	80	Your excellent athletic ability and superior conditioning allow you to make near-superhuman leaps.
Lunging Strike	80	You make a single attack against a foe who stands just beyond your reach.
Lurking Familiar	80	Your familiar hides within the folds of your robe or takes cover behind you as your opponents close in.
Mad Alchemist	94	You are an expert at using alchemical items.
Mad Foam Rager	80	You fight with the rage that only a rabid badger or a beer-addled dwarf can bring to bear.
Master Manipulator	80	Your words are your weapons.
Melee Evasion	81	Your speed, agility, and talent for intelligent fighting allow you to avoid your opponent's blows.
Melee Weapon Mastery	81	You have mastered a wide range of weapons.
Overwhelming Assault	81	If you attack a foe who does nothing to turn aside your attack, you press forward with an indomitable strike.
Penetrating Shot	81	You send a powerful shot cleaving through your enemies.
Profane Aura	89	You call upon the dark powers you worship to fill the area around you with a dreadful mist that obscures sight.
Ranged Weapon Mastery	82	You have mastered a wide range of weapons.
Rapid Blitz	82	You charge across the battlefield, combining your speed and fighting ability to move and attack with unmatched skill.
Ritual Blessing	86	You call upon the powers of goodness and light to bless your allies.
Ritual Blood Bonds	86	You invest your allies with the mighty power of your toten, god, or similar divine entity.
Robilar's Gambit	82	By offering Robilar's Gambit, you absorb damage to place yourself in an advantageous position.
Sacred Healing	89	You can channel divine energy to aid in your efforts to tend to a comrade's injuries, sickness, or other conditions.
Sacred Purification	89	You serve as a conduit of divine energy, filling the area around you with power that aids the living and saps the undead.
Sacred Radiance	89	You channel divine energy to fill the area around you with a soothing, gentle radiance.
Shadow Striker	94	You melt into the shadows, hiding from your enemies until the time is right.
Shield Sling	82	You can hurl your shield as a deadly missile, turning it from a defensive item to a crushing, thrown weapon.
Shield Specialization	82	You are skilled in using a shield, allowing you to gain greater defensive benefits from it.
Shield Ward	82	You use your shield like a wall of steel and wood.
Short Haft	82	You have trained in polearm fighting alongside your comrades in arms, sometimes reaching past them while they shield you, and sometimes shielding them while they attack from behind you.
Slashing Flurry	82	You swing your weapon with uncanny speed, slicing apart a foe in the blink of an eye.
Smiting Spell	92	You can channel the energy of a touch spell into a weapon, causing the spell to discharge when you strike an opponent.
Spectral Skirmisher	83	You have trained extensively in the use of magic that renders you invisible.
Spell-Linked Familiar	83	You and your familiar can share spell energy, allowing your familir to cast a limited number of spells each day.
Stalwart Defense	83	You excel at aiding your allies in battle. When an opponent attempts to strike one of them, you make a quick, distracting motion to ruin the foe's efforts.
Steadfast Determination	83	Your physical durability allows you to shrug off attacks that would cripple a lesser person.
Telling Blow	83	When you strike an opponent's vital areas, you draw on your ability to land crippling blows to make the most of your attack.
Trophy Collector	83	A belt of minotaur fur, a hood of cloaker wing-skin, and an amulet fashioned from a petrified dragon's eye -- these are the intimidating symbols of your trade.
Tumbling Feint	84	When you move near an opponent, your acrobatic maneuvers leave him confused and unable to properly defend himself.
Two-Weapon Pounce	84	When you charge an opponent while wielding two weapons, you can make two quick attacks.
Two-Weapon Rend	84	You wield two weapons with an artisan's precision.
Vatic Gaze	85	Your arcane studies have brought forth your nascent talent to sense magical auras and the power that others are capable of wielding.
Versatile Unarmed Strike	85	You employ a variety of unarmed fighting styles, allowing you to alter the type of damage your attacks deal.
Vexing Flanker	85	You excel at picking apart an opponent's defenses when your allies also threaten them.
Wanderer's Diplomacy	85	Many halflings journey far and wide across the world, spending no more than a few months in one place.
Water Splitting Stone	85	You channel your kienergy to splinter the defenses of creatures whose tough hides or magical natures normally allow them to shrug off your blows.
Weapon Supremacy	85	You are a grandmaster in the use of your chosen weapon.

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