D&D Rule Books

Materials for a D&D game can be simple or fancy depending on the preferences and the budget of the players. Some players enjoy using battle mats, miniatures, terrain pieces, and full-color accessory cards. Others keep to the basics. However you like it, though, you'll need to at least have a character sheet, a set of dice, and a core rulebook.

The core rulebooks include the Player's Handbook, the Dungeon Master's Guide, and the Monster Manual. If your roleplaying group doesn't mind sharing, you can get by with just one copy each for the whole group, but I've found it best if players have their own Player's Handbook.

The other books are called supplements, and contain optional rules and extra classes, skills, equipment, monsters, and so on. They're effectively expansion packs to the main game and are completely optional.

Adventurer's Vault 2	Arcane Power	Assault on Nightwyrm Fortress
Death's Reach	Demon Queen's Enclave	Draconomicon
Draconomicon 2: Metallic Dragons	Dungeon Delve	Dungeon Master's Guide
Dungeon Master's Guide 2	Ebberon Campaign Guide	Ebberon Player's Guide
Hammerfast	Keep on the Shadowfell	King of the Trollhaunt Warrens
Kingdom of Ghouls	Manual of the Planes	Martial Power 2
Monster Manual	Monster Manual 2	Open Grave
Player's Handbook	Player's Handbook 2	Player's Handbook 3
Player's Handbook Races: Dragonborn	Primal Power	Prince of Undeath
Pyramid of Shadows	Revenge of the Giants	Scepter Tower of Spellgard
The Plane Below: Secrets of Elemental Chaos	Thunderspire Labyrinth	Underdark