Get more customers on the phone, on your site, and in the door. Online ads on Google can help you reach the right customers and grow your business. Jul 07, 2015 Yesterday the original AD&D Players Handbook was given new virtual life, being made available as a pdf download from dndclassics.com (a special section of drivethrurpg / rpgnow). It's currently priced at $9.99. One the product page there's a nice historical essay by Shannon Appelcline who has written similar essays for most of the other 1E products. Ad.com Advertising made easy. The physical volume of the DMG is quite substantial in size, coming in a hefty 240pages hardback with tiny sans-serif font and with a very good piece of cover art of an Efretti making very short work of a party of adventurers by David Sutherland. The quality of interior art is acceptable, but usually without context. The volume comes with a. Ad- definition, a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin, where it meant “toward” and indicated direction, tendency, or addition: adjoin. Usually assimilated to.
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Presentation
The Dungeon Master's Guide is a 192-page, hardcover volume. It has black-and-white text with blue headings. Most of the artwork is blue, but some pieces are black and white, and a few full page pieces of art are full color. The text is arranged in three columns, like the Player's Handbook. It has a Jeff Easley cover painting of a stretched out wizard battling a dragon in a chaotic swirl of color. It was difficult to really get a handle on what was happening there.
The Good Stuff
It lists magic items.
The Bad Stuff
The 2nd Edition Dungeon Master's Guide is probably one of the worst DMGs out there if you are an experienced DM. I rarely needed it when running games - most of what I needed was in the Monstrous Compendiums, Monstrous Manual, or the Player's Handbook. I pretty much only needed the pages with the magic items.
The art is lackluster. Most of it was just plain bad (see page 32). Much of it looked like clip art, often with Celtic knotwork around it. Unlike the artwork in the 1st Edition book and the later 3rd Edition book, none of it was particularly exciting or inspiring. I was amused however that the painting on page 8 clearly has a monster clearly ripped off from Conan the Destroyer, though.
Conclusion
As an experienced DM who had been playing AD&D for about a decade before I switched to 2nd Edition, I was disappointed in this book. I read and re-read the old DMG a million times, always finding inspiration and information. I tried to read and reread this one, but never really did - I just looked up what I needed when I needed it - basically it was a true reference book only. It did not inspire. If you are playing AD&D 2nd Edition, sure, you'll need this for a bit here and there, but otherwise, this DMG is not really worthy of the name.
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a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin, where it meant “toward” and indicated direction, tendency, or addition: adjoin. Usually assimilated to the following consonant; see a-5, ac-, af-, ag-, al-, an-2, ap-1, ar-, as-, at-.
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Origin of ad-
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< Latinad, ad- (preposition and prefix) to, toward, at, about; cognate with at1
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British Dictionary definitions forad-
prefix
near; next toadrenal
Word Origin for ad-
from Latin: to, towards. As a prefix in words of Latin origin, ad- became ac-, af-, ag-, al-, an-, acq-, ar-, as-, and at- before c, f, g, l, n, q, r, s, and t, and became a- before gn, sc, sp, st
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Medicine definitions forad-
pref.
Toward; to. Before c, f, g, k, l, p, q, s, and t, ad- is usually assimilated to ac-, af-, ag-, ac-, al-, ap-, ac-, as-, and at-, respectively:adductor, acclimation, agglutinant.
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