The original "Players Handbook" was reviewed by Don Turnbull in issue No. 10 of "White Dwarf", who gave the book a rating of 10 out of 10. Turnbull noted, "I don't think I have ever seen a product sell so quickly as did the "Handbook" when it first appeared on the Games Workshop stand at Dragonmeet", a British role-playing game convention; after the convention, he studied the book and concluded that "whereas the original rules are ambiguous and muddled, the "Handbook" is a detailed and coherent game-system, and very sophisticated." Turnbull felt a bit of apprehension at the amount of time it would require to digest all the new material, but concluded by saying "I said of the "Monster Manual" that it was TSR's most impressive publication to date; that is no longer true—this accolade must belong to the "Handbook" which is nothing short of a triumph."