Your Most Useful and Most Used RPG Products

[Deset Gled]

This site: The Hypertext d20 SRD (v3.5, 5e & Pathfinder d20 System Reference Document) :: d20srd.org

For years, this was my first stop resource for 3.Xe rules questions. Simple, elegant, quick, easy to navigate.

For 5e, I also use this one a lot: 5th Edition SRD

 

[GMMichael]

Skyrim Official Game Guide by Prima Games, and of course, donjon.bin.sh

 

[overgeeked]

I would love to see a list of all these books have to offer at some point. I've heard that Errant is stuffed full of procedures, but not what that entails.

There’s a free no-art edition of Errant on Drivethru.

 

[jerryrice4949]

I'm thinking about the RPG products I find myself coming back to time and time again as a gift guide for others.

What RPG products do you find yourself using year after year? Which products provide the biggest impact at your table?

Here's my list:

• Pathfinder Flip Mat Basic and Staedtler Lumovision medium black 315-9 wet-erase markers
• Midgard World Book
• Demon Cults and Secret Societies
• Level Up Advanced 5e's Trials and Treasure and Monstrous Menagerie
• Shadowdark Quickstart RulesDemon Cults and Secret Societies

Demon Cults and Secret Societies is my favorite 5E book both official and 3PP. It was also an amazing value on Kickstarter at the time.

 

[overgeeked]

Worlds Without Number. Free PDF. Hands down the best fantasy worldbuilding book. Check out the free version to get a taste.

Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master. One of the best referee resources for actually running games.

Game Master’s Handbook of Proactive Roleplaying. Running games this way makes the referee’s life so much easier.

Chessex Dry Erase Battle Mat.

Blades in the Dark. The section on clocks is worth its weight in gold. Useful for any game.

Monster of the Week. The section on making monsters and running mysteries is worth its weight in gold. Useful for any game.

 

[Voadam]

Battle Maps

Flipmats from Paizo. Many good ones like the crypt and the dragon lair and the wilderness terrain ones.

Various from WotC, I got a great map collection booklet with like 20 that are great. My brother had laminated a couple of the module ones and gave me two to use (spider queen temple and some underdark one) and they are fantastic to unroll and layout then roll up afterwards.

Mongoose d20 Starship Troopers terrain maps are pretty fantastic. Got a set super cheap from a Paizo sale years ago.

Everything else is cycled depending on what my current game of choice is and what Adventure Path/modules I am running.

 

[Voadam]

I also was a big fan of the 4e Monster Vault for the counters.

They covered the fantasy basics, were super cheap compared to minis, looked great, and were easy to store in ziplocks with labels for types.

I used them in my pathfinder games all the time until my friends got into Reaper Bones collections and we used their minis from then on.

 

[Divine2021]

Recently: Monster Overhaul by Skerples, Midgard/Southlands Campaign Setting by Kobold, Mothership’s Warden Operation Manuel, Goodman Games’ The Dungeon Alphabet by Michael Curtis.

All these resources are excellent and I highly recommend them to you.

 

[Peter BOSCO'S]

It is my dice. Specifically my Zocchi 20's and 6's. I can't remember the last game I played or ran that I did not use at least one of them in. It's been at least 35 years. I am so glad I bought the $1 per die dice and not the cheap $0.35 per die Chessex dice.

 

[radiothief]

I'm thinking about the RPG products I find myself coming back to time and time again as a gift guide for others.

What RPG products do you find yourself using year after year? Which products provide the biggest impact at your table?

Here's my list:

• Pathfinder Flip Mat Basic and Staedtler Lumovision medium black 315-9 wet-erase markers
• Midgard World Book
• Demon Cults and Secret Societies
• Level Up Advanced 5e's Trials and Treasure and Monstrous Menagerie
• Shadowdark Quickstart Rules

Veins of the Earth and Into the Wyrd and Wild. BUT a really unsung hero is "for the queen" which i have players run before campaigns to see if they are really attached to their "queen" or patron, ruler etc. It also helps for world building