The Player's Handbook II builds upon existing materials in the Player's Handbook. This is the first direct follow-up to the best-selling and most used D&D rulebook. It is specifically designed to expand options available for players by 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 feature for existing classes new feats, tools for rapid character creation and additional organization and teamwork benefits