rulebook

See also: rule-book and rule book

English

Alternative forms

• rule book, rule-book

Etymology

From rule +‎ book.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

rulebook (plural rulebooks)

1. A book containing a set of rules.
   • 2013, Greg Costikyan, Uncertainty in Games, Cambridge, Mass., London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 47:

     The main tool Rogue-likes bring to creating interesting gameplay through randomness is algorithmic complexity far beyond that provided by a few 1D100 tables in the back of the D&D rulebook.

Translations

a book containing rules

• Finnish: sääntökirja
• French: règlement (fr) m, règles (fr) f pl
• Serbo-Croatian: pravilnik (sh) m

See also

• ruleset
• throw the rulebook at