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

[Deiscent]

2e Chronomancer.
I know of roughly a dozen people (myself included) who
own a copy but zero who've ever actually used any part of it.
Interesting/odd read, but really needs stuff be written to encorperate it.

I fell in love with this book, and it ignited something in me about the concepts of time etc. that have held over for +20 years! This and the Complete Book of Necromancers! But your right of course, I had a GM tease me that he'd let me use the Chronomancer stuff, but that fell through. But every edition I look for a way to make one nonetheless.

 

[Gradine]

In case anyone was thinking about adding them to the pile, but I used most if not all of the late-3.5x weird books. Basically, any of the official 3.5 products except for Ghostwalk. Oh, and Weapons of Legacy, I guess.

 

[Satyrn]

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

I used the ghost class briefly in one campaign when a couple PCs died in one encounter in a haunted mansion.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

You're talking about the "Player's Secrets Of" series, right? Because, I actually did use the Stjordvik one in a short-lived (though non-Birthright) campaign. It was a compact location and had the right viking-ish feel.

I do keep thinking about running a throwback 2e Birthright campaign. I never got to play or run it back in the day, and I feel like it would create a dramatically different D&D experience.

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.

 

[JiffyPopTart]

I have a couple nominations for "Books i've never seen anyone use nor do I remember discussions on." I see that #3 has already been shot down though.

1. The Celtic and Roman historical splatbooks for 2e. Not super rare but i've never known anyone to own them.
2. Maztica setting for Forgotten Realms.
3. Dungeoneers and Wilderness Survival Guide (what garbage on an otherwise awesome series of books).
4. The set of three "environment books" for 3.5 (one was ocean, one was ice, and the third was deserts) which had some good ideas in them.

And my ultimate contribution...one that I actually really like and made multiple characters from because it was "different" but fairly balanced but ive never heard discussed.....Magic of Incarnum for 3.5. I don't really get the EVERYTHING IS BLUE!!! motiff but I really like the variety of new character types you could pull off with that book.

DS

 

[TarionzCousin]

1. The Celtic and Roman historical splatbooks for 2e. Not super rare but i've never known anyone to own them.
4. The set of three "environment books" for 3.5 (one was ocean, one was ice, and the third was deserts) which had some good ideas in them.

I own and have used some things from the Celtic splatbook.

I played in a couple campaigns with a DM who used Frostburn and Sandstorm.

 

[Zardnaar]

I have a couple nominations for "Books i've never seen anyone use nor do I remember discussions on." I see that #3 has already been shot down though.

1. The Celtic and Roman historical splatbooks for 2e. Not super rare but i've never known anyone to own them.
2. Maztica setting for Forgotten Realms.
3. Dungeoneers and Wilderness Survival Guide (what garbage on an otherwise awesome series of books).
4. The set of three "environment books" for 3.5 (one was ocean, one was ice, and the third was deserts) which had some good ideas in them.

And my ultimate contribution...one that I actually really like and made multiple characters from because it was "different" but fairly balanced but ive never heard discussed.....Magic of Incarnum for 3.5. I don't really get the EVERYTHING IS BLUE!!! motiff but I really like the variety of new character types you could pull off with that book.

DS

I used Stormwrack and own the Roman and Celtic PDFs, never used them though even back in the day (we did use the Greek one).

 

[Yaarel]

I want to believe that at least the authors would give it a try before selling

That is a pretty brilliant comment.

 

[Gradine]

4. The set of three "environment books" for 3.5 (one was ocean, one was ice, and the third was deserts) which had some good ideas in them.

These were excellent books that I've used quite extensively.

And my ultimate contribution...one that I actually really like and made multiple characters from because it was "different" but fairly balanced but ive never heard discussed.....Magic of Incarnum for 3.5. I don't really get the EVERYTHING IS BLUE!!! motiff but I really like the variety of new character types you could pull off with that book.

One of my favorite PCs was an Incarnate. Once our DM put together this epic combat against a legion of goblins led by a warlord riding a war elephant. On the first turn I airstepped up to the warlord's platform, got a crit and one-shotted him (we were using the wounds/vitality variant system), and the rest of the goblins basically just surrendered. It was awesome.

If there was an official 3.5 splat with one or more random one-off base classes, I've played one. I think the only 3.5 books with base classes I never made PCs with were Complete Arcane and Complete Warrior, and I've DMed both a Warlock and a Swashbuckler.

 

[reelo]

My 3e Oriental Adventures book is pristine. I bought it, read it, never, ever used it, nor, do I hear anyone really talking about how they did either.

Mine saw extensive use. I played in a Rokugan/OA campaign that lasted until lvl 17!