Most useless book ever?

[FickleGM]

Arrgh, I have so many...I guess that one of the AEG one-word books will do - DUNGEON (that is AEG, right? I don't have it with me at work).

That one is probably the worst for me. Of WOTC stuff, I'll also put forth the Psionics Handbook as Exhibit A.

 

[ThirdWizard]

I bought FRCS and I don't run a Forgotten Realms game. I actually run Planescape, so I can't very well pilliage it for much. So, I gave it away. Probably my most useless book.

 

[Pseudonym]

So, are these books useless becasuse:

1) they are just badly written

Enemies and Allies falls under that from me.

2) they assume a style of gaming that doesn't fit what you do

More that they were books that I thought were fascinating and presented a great role play opportunity, but my group at the time wouldn't play anything other than Forgotten Realms, so they languished on my shelves until I packed them up and put them in storage, and found another gaming group. Still haven't used any of them.

 

[Masquerade]

Without a doubt, the most useless book on my shelf is the Epic Level Handbook. Others have basically outlined why this book is such a waste of space. Personally, if I ever play beyond level 20, I will continue using the same rules that were in place for the first twenty levels. No reason to change things at that point or any other.

 

[Dark Jezter]

Living Greyhawk Gazeteer.

Never used it, not once. Never borrowed anything from it for another campaign. I never even looked at for long to admire the setting info or illustrations. I have no idea what made me decide to buy this book.

 

[Varianor Abroad]

Agh!! Delete this post!! Quick, before one of my GMs sees it!!

I hate swarms.

Then don't repost it! Might as well dip your character in honey and brimstone, stake yourself out on a fire ant nest and summmon a hellwasp swarm.

 

[Threedub]

How about any of the four books I own from Fast Forward, with probably Dungeon World: Catacombs being the worst. The only bright point is I bought them at a significantly reduced price and they do a good job of stabilizing a short table leg.

 

[DaveMage]

I thought is was almost universally agreed that the WORST BOOK EVAR was the Synnabar RPG...


As for D&D/d20, I'll go with the Sundered Reaches Campaign Setting (Fast Forward).

 

[Brainfreeze]

The Psionics book...I know that i've only bought 1 copy of it..though now i'm walking around with 3 since people placed them on my shelf and never wanted them back...

 

[Sejs]

Oh that's easy.

Sprawl Sites, for Shadowrun.

Old 1st ed SR book that had maps for various locations one might visit in the course of 'running. The back section had a number of random encounters broken down by encounter type.

The maps were ... lame. Limp and uninteresting. The random encounters were worse. I bought the book, read through it, scoffed at the content and banished it to the back of the collection never to be used.