D&D 5E D&D Products That Were Never Used By Anyone?

[Quartz]

I used the ELH several times in 3E, called it a day when a Sorcerer cast 17 spells in 1 round. Used preconstructed characters to play some Dungeon adventures.

Extended Time Stop, right? Probably plus Multispell and Quickened.

 

[Quartz]

Epic Level Handbook? Did anyone actually use this?

Read Sepulchrave II's Chronicles of Wyre for epic-level D&D done right.

My 1e copy of the Conan modules.

I'll see you Conan and raise you Red Sonja!

 

[Zardnaar]

Extended Time Stop, right? Probably plus Multispell and Quickened.

Multiple time stops plus haste. Haste plus tinestop 2 spells per round while tmestopped then cast another timestop etc.

 

[Blue]

I have 3.0, 3.5, and 4e books that I purchased for character options and since I didn't get to create many characters (either long runnign campaigns or DMing) I'm sure some went unused as in the rules in the books never made it to the table, though the books did get read and generate ideas.

I have 3rd party products I never found a game that allowed.

I've been purging old gaming stuff with a focus on things I won't need and doesn't have sentimental value, so I can't just go peruse. But I can wave my hand in the general direction of the stuff I've given away and be confident there are at least a few examples there.

 

[dave2008]

I mean ... I'd have to hear a first-hand account of those games. You've read those rules?

Does playing all the roles myself count? I have several copies of the Immortal rules, but never could convince anyone to play. It is almost a completely different game than BECM. Of course, not that I am converting them to 5e, I've heard a lot people say they liked the Immortal Rules, but not that I think about it, no one said the played them!

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

It really was. I feel like, if given a proper marketing push, it could've had the potential to be another Planescape or Dark Sun, a radically new vision for D&D.

But, to answer your question, no, I did not. Alas.

Ghostwalk was phenomenally creative, but did anyone actually play it?

 

[77IM]

I've never even heard of anyone playing Ghostwalk. No actual play blogs, no overgrown wiki, no loving amateur 5E conversions, etc. Which is weird because it was really amazingly well-done in so many ways.


Here's another product that I question whether anyone ever used, because it was very nearly useless: the 3E Hero Builder's Guidebook. The material wasn't bad, exactly, it just wasn't good for a book -- it would have been fine as a series of Dragon articles, or maybe a few chapters in Xanathar's Guide to Everything.

 

[Sacrosanct]

I think there is some confusion with bad and no one played. So we can set aside listing off the worst products (like Forest Oracle or WSG). Lots of people actually played with those, including myself. That's how we know it was so poorly written

I think the actual answer is there are a ton of products, but since none of us played or used them, it's gonna be hard to remember them lol

I'm gonna hazard and say most were from 2e and 3e, because we seemed to have a lot of bloat in those editions. For example, we had all of those "Complete book of." series in 2e, and while lots of people used most of those like Complete book of elves, and, ninjas, etc. how many actually used Sages and Specialists? Or Warriors of Heaven? Or the Mage Stone Boardgame (for dragonlance)?

 

[Gradine]

Ghostwalk was phenomenally creative, but did anyone actually play it?

Came to this thread to post this. A lot of people very fondly remember this book, but I haven't heard any examples of anyone actually playing it. It was a phenomenal setting but I feel like maybe it was begging to be let out of its D20 straitjacket and given a much more suitable system to play with.

 

[Laurefindel]

This is a personal vote for me - i'm sure plenty of people got good use of them - but I'm going with all of the Brithright's Player Domain books.

I never even came close to use any of them, but really liked them. As a matter of fact, I still have them all. They have survived the multiple purges of unused RPG books along with my Planescape stuff. Which says a lot.