Reviews for Player's Option

The average rating for Player's Option based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-03-29 00:00:00 David Holton Of all of the '2.5' books I have to say I used this one the most. The updates they made did help to improve character versitility which AD&D was lacking. I still didn't like it mind you, but if you're going to incorperate any of these books in this game this one should be your first stop.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-05-15 00:00:00 Roberto Thegenus I'm on the record for saying that 2nd edition AD&D was where the decline of Dungeons & Dragons began for me. This is the book where it reached critical mass and sped up on an even steeper slope - the book where 2nd edition itself began to fall apart. It's woefully unbalanced and notoriously non-playtested, and adds almost nothing to the game except more clunkiness and unnecessary mechanical bits. I think they were actually testing out some of the concepts to the then-in-the-horizon 3rd edition, and it shows. Half star for character points, which on their own are kind of a mess, but you could use them to customize the classes a little bit. I wouldn't recommend it overmuch, though.