Several expansion manuals for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.DragonLance Adventures by Tracy
Hickman and Margaret Weis
Dungeoneer's Survival Guide by Douglas Niles
Fiend Folio
edited by Don Turnbull
Forgotten Realms Adventures by Jeff Grubb and Ed Greenwood
Greyhawk Adventures by James Ward
Manual of the Planes by Jeff Grubb
Monster Manual II by Gary Gygax
Oriental Adventures by Gary Gygax
Unearthed Arcana by Gary Gygax
Wilderness Survival Guide by Kim Mohan
DragonLance Adventures
provides additional campaign resource
material for Tracy Hickman's
DragonLance Campaign and world of Krynn, as well as information on
classes, races, spells, and artifacts.
Dungeoneer's Survival Guide
and Wilderness Survival Guide
flesh out the worlds of the Underdark and the Great Outdoors, respectively.
Both present some genuinely valuable and interesting info, but deal with
both subjects in too much detail for all but the hard-core gamer. Both
were also offered in shrinkwrapped "Limited Editions", which contained
modules Dark & Hidden Ways and
Wild Things respectively.
Fiend Folio
is TSR UK's sequel to the
Monster Manual, and is mostly a
compilation of monsters previously published / submitted to White Dwarf
magazine's "Fiend Factory" feature. Originally intended to be released
in November 1979 (and so dated on the preface page!), production was delayed
for more than two years due to "contractual reasons". Apparently, the
manual was to be released as a Games Workshop product (licensed by TSR), but
when TSR failed to merge with Games Workshop -- instead, opening the TSR UK
division -- Games Workshop reportedly stalled production on the manual for
as long as possible. (Thanks to
Ciro Alessandro Sacco
for this info). It was pre-released, in final form, at the GamesFair
1981 convention in the UK. (Thanks to Adam Shultz for this info).
Estimates place the total number of Fiend Folios sold at 190,000.
Forgotten Realms Adventures, like
Greyhawk Adventures, provides supplemental information to the
Forgotten Realms Campaign setting. Besides offering
additional background material, spells, etc, it also serves to update this
1st Edition AD&D campaign to 2nd Edition AD&D conventions.
Greyhawk Adventures takes over where
the World of Greyhawk Campaign
set left off, describing in depth many additional features of the Greyhawk
campaign. It bears a "Compatible with AD&D 2nd Edition" starburst,
although it does not have the 2nd Edition logo (it was published in 1988,
just prior to 2nd Edition AD&D being released).
Manual of the Planes
covers rules and locations for
extra-planar campaigns. It is supported by a single module,
OP1 Tales of the Outer Planes.
Monster Manual II
is (surprise) the sequel to the
Monster Manual. Written by the same
person (Gygax), in exactly the same format. Published in 1983, the
Monster Manual II heralded the re-design of all the AD&D manuals to this
style (though Fiend Folio was not reprinted after roughly 1982, so it
escaped the redesign).
Oriental Adventures
introduces a Far-Eastern campaign
setting, replete with ninjas and samurai.
Unearthed Arcana
is a rules expansion from Gary Gygax,
adding new character classes (Barbarian, Acrobat, Cavalier, etc), as well as
new spells, races, and magic items. Unfortunately, many players
complained that the new character classes were too powerful. An
errata
article was published in
Dragon #103, and this article stated that
the changes would be incorporated into later prints, but this revision never
transpired (thanks to Michael Deaton and Richard Graves for this info).
While the Dungeoneer's Survival Guide and
Wilderness Survival Guide were released in "Limited Editions", the hardbacks are identical to
the stand-alone
versions, with the exception that the bar codes on the rear covers of the
hardback books have been crossed out with a black "x", to prevent them
from being scanned and sold separately from the booklets. Thanks
to Devon Hibbs and Paul Tremiti for this info.
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Fiend Folio
- First (1981): ISBN
(only) on spine. Lower-left corner of back cover has the ISBN, as
well as "1981 TSR Hobbies, Inc. All Rights Reserved." and "The
designation 'TM' is used to designate trademarks owned by TSR Hobbies,
Inc." (Thanks to
Adrian
Newman for this info).
- Second:
ISBN and TSR Product number on spine and
lower-left corner of back cover. Copyright info has been dropped.
(Thanks to
Adrian
Newman for this info).
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- First: Front cover and spine
have the Angled TSR logo.
- Second: Front cover and spine
now have the Gold Angled TSR logo (thanks to Mike Kuo for this info).
- First: TSR UK address on back is "The Mill, Rathmore
Road".
- Second: TSR UK address on back is "120 Church End, Cherry
Hinton".
Thanks to Matt Roberts for this info.
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- First (1983):
Preface and Acknowledgement boxes (on page 4)
are shaded in gray, making the text inside somewhat hard to read.
Thanks to John Justice for this info.
- Second: Preface and Acknowledgement boxes are
now white, with gray shading outside of the boxes. Rear cover has
the Angled TSR logo.
- Third: Preface and Acknowledgement boxes
are white, with gray shading outside of the boxes. Rear cover does
not have the Angled TSR logo, but has the price ("$15.00") in the lower
right corner. Thanks to Michael Deaton for this info.
- Fourth-
Ninth: Unknown.
- Tenth (1987). States "10th
Printing, October 1987" on copyright page. Thanks to Michael
Deaton for this info.
- Eleventh (1988): States "11th Printing, October 1988"
on copyright page. Rear cover does not have the Angled TSR
logo, but has the price ("$15.00") in the lower right corner.
Thanks to Michael Crisman for this info.
- Twelfth
(1989): States "12th Printing, July 1989" on copyright page.
Otherwise identical to the Eleventh print.
Thanks to Rick Blumer and Michael Deaton for this info.
Oriental Adventures
- First (1985): Front
cover and spine have Angled TSR logo. Back cover has ISBN and
Product Number above the bar code.
- Second:
Front cover and spine have Gold Angled TSR logo. Back cover has ISBN
only above the bar code. Also present is a copyright line (1985 TSR
Hobbies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Printed in USA) and a price
in the lower right corner ($15.00). Inside is identical to First
print. Thanks to
Adrian
Newman for the printing sequence info and the scans below.
Unearthed Arcana
- First (1985): Has no
indication of printing # on copyright page. Rear cover has the U.S.
TSR address to the right of the Angled TSR logo, as well as the ISBN and
Product Number in the lower left (thanks to Michael Deaton for this info
and the scan).
- Second: Identical to First
(no printing # on copyright page), but rear cover has the ISBN and Product
Number covered over with a sticker -- this sticker has "394-54834-5" (the
Product Number, but missing the "TSR1200"), and the price, $15.00.
Thanks to Michael Deaton for this info.
- Second+: Identical to the Second print
above, but the sticker on the rear cover now has "394-54834-5TSR1500"
(the full, "corrected" Product Number for the price change from $12 to
$15), though no actual price listed. Thanks to Njål Brekke for
this info.
- Third: Does
not state any printing # on the
copyright page. Rear cover has both the U.S. and U.K. TSR addresses
to either side of the Angled TSR logo, but now only has an ISBN (above the
bar code). "Printed in the USA" and the price ($15.00) are in the
lower left corner (thanks to Michael Menges for this info).
- Fourth (1987): States "4th printing,
August 1987" on copyright page.
Rear cover identical to Third print (thanks to Josh Berling for this
info).
- Fifth (1987): States "5th
printing, October 1987" on copyright page. Otherwise identical to
Fourth (thanks to
Adrian Newman for this info).
- Sixth (1988): States "6th
printing, April 1988" on copyright page. Otherwise identical to
Fourth (thanks to Michael Deaton for this info).
- Seventh
(1988): States "7th printing, October 1988" on copyright page.
Otherwise identical to Fourth (thanks to Rick Blumer for this info).
- Eighth
(1989): States "8th printing, July 1989" on copyright page.
Otherwise identical to Fourth (thanks to Michael Deaton for this info).
- Ninth (1989):
States "9th printing, December 1989" on
copyright page. Otherwise identical to Fourth (thanks to Thomas
Jones for this info).
- Tenth (1990): States "10th printing, May
1990" on copyright page. Otherwise identical to Fourth
(thanks to Richard Graves and David Lamontagne
for this info).
- Eleventh (1991): States "11th printing,
March 1991" on copyright page. Otherwise identical to Fourth
(thanks to John Huckerby
for this info).
- Twelfth (1991): States "12th printing,
October 1991" on copyright page. Gold Angled TSR logo on cover and
spine. Otherwise, identical to Fourth (thanks to Michael Deaton for
this info). As far as we are aware, this print was the last for
Unearthed Arcana; as you can see, TSR
continued to print it nearly two years after
2nd Edition AD&D had debuted (a result of TSR's continuing efforts
to fill orders for 1st Edition books).
Thanks to
Adrian
Newman for the Forgotten Realms Adventures scan.
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Monster Manual II |
Unearthed Arcana |
Oriental Adventures (1st) |
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Dungeoneer's Guide |
Wilderness Guide |
DragonLance Adventures |
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Manual of the Planes
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Greyhawk Adventures
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Forgotten Realms Adventures
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These manuals are a dime-a-dozen, with the
possible exception of Manual of the Planes (produced at the twilight
of 1st Edition AD&D rules).