The Complete Priest's Handbook
The Complete Priest's Handbook is a supplemental rulebook published in 1990 for the 2nd edition of the "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game. Contents. "The Complete Priest's Handbook" is a rules supplement for the 2nd edition "Player's Handbook" which details priestly characters and the role of religion in campaigns. The book includes rules for priest kit subclasses, and 60 sample priesthoods. This "AD&D" game supplement provides noble priests, outlaw priests, fighting monks, amazon priestesses, and other “priest kits”; priest personality archetypes like the crusader, philosopher, hypocrite, and earnest novice; 60 sample  priesthoods of deities for agriculture, birth, disease, elemental forces, hunting, literature, oceans, oracles, trade, wind, wisdom, and more; and rules for designing new faiths. There are new weapons and equipment, martial-arts rules, and adventure hooks for priest characters. Publication history. PHBR3 "The Complete Priest's Handbook" was written by Aaron Allston, with illustrations by Thomas Baxa, and was published by TSR in 1990 as a 128-page book. Reception. Allen Varney reviewed "The Complete Priest's Handbook" for "Dragon" magazine #165 (January 1991). He comments on the book by asking, "Is there anything so unlikely as a "generic priest ? Varney's concluding comments in the review are: "Never thought of an all-priest campaign? Then you never saw "The Complete Priest's Handbook". Bravo! (Or do I mean "Hallelujah"?)"