BECMI D&D already had rules for Dungeons (Basic Set) and rules for wilderness adventures (Expert Set), AD&D already had a volume dedicated to Dungeon Adventuring with Douglas Niles’ Dungeon Survival Guide, therefore, logically, there was one book missing, and near the end of 1986 Kim Mohan would finally present us with the Wilderness Survival Guide.

Full of little rules to make your wilderness adventuring more realistic as well as more fun, this guide gives rules for different kinds of weather, for encumbrance and movement rates as well as everything you might possibly need to know when outside the town or dungeon.

With a great cover by Jeff Easley, this is also one of the more interesting of the rules supplements for first edition AD&D as Kim Mohan is a particularly good writer and the rules are particularly well set out. This makes this book kind of a model against which to judge other first editions books, and beyond. Definitely worth taking a look.