Miniatures Handbook
The Miniatures Handbook was a Dungeons and Dragons Third edition splatbook released in October 2003 that, contrary to its name, had fuck-all to do with miniatures, and was basically just a collection of the classes and races that WotC had been cooking up but couldn't find a place for in their other splatbooks. Or at least it might as well have been that; the latter half probably has something to do with miniatures, but you never hear anybody talking about those rules because the races and classes in the first half get all the attention. It introduced four new base classes, seven prestige classes, twenty-something new monsters (at least two of which later got reprinted as playable races), 22 new general feats, and 10 new metamagic feats.
NEW CLASSES
- Favored Soul (Reprinted in Complete Divine)
- Healer
- Marshal
- Warmage (Reprinted in Complete Arcane)
NEW PRESTIGE CLASSES
- Bonded Summoner
- Dragon Samurai
- Havoc Mage
- Skullclan Hunter
- Tactical Soldier
- War Hulk
- War Chief
NEW MONSTER RACES
- Abyssal Eviscerator
- Aspect
- Bright Naga
- Catfolk (reprinted as a playable race in Races of the Wild)
- Cave Dinosaur
- Crucian (reprinted as a playable race in Sandstorm)
- Cursed Spirit
- Displacer serpent
- Equiceph
- Gravehound
- Kruthik
- Mad Slasher
- Magma Hurler
- Nothic
- Phargion
- Protectar
- Ramadeen
- Scaled Stalker
- Shadow Beast
- Spark Lasher
- Stonechild
- Walking Wall