HaroldTheHobbit
Adventurer
For the impact it’s had on my gaming, probably Runequest 2ed core.
What is your favorite RPG book of all time?
Corinnguard
Hero
Hmm...if a favorite book is one you pick up the most at every opportunity you've got, I guess then that my favorite would have to be the Manual of Adventurous Resources: Complete by Purple Martin Games. I really like it's Elementalist class.
Committed Hero
Adventurer
GURPS WW2 Weird War Two - odd title, but great book. Packed to the rafters with useful stuff for any 20th Century campaign.
Professor Murder
Hero
The oldest DnD book I still have on my shelf because nothing has ever even come close to replacing it.
Edgar Ironpelt
Adventurer
My first thought was for the old Flying Buffalo Citybooks series.
I will say that Aaron Allston's Strike Force, mentioned in the original post, is worth at least a honorable mention. I'll also put down some of the D&D Mystara gazetteers as honorable mentions, in particular The Grand Duchy of Karameikos, The Elves of Alfheim, and The Dwarves of Rockholm. (And yeah, two of those three were also written by Aaron Allston. Maybe a pattern here.)
I will say that Aaron Allston's Strike Force, mentioned in the original post, is worth at least a honorable mention. I'll also put down some of the D&D Mystara gazetteers as honorable mentions, in particular The Grand Duchy of Karameikos, The Elves of Alfheim, and The Dwarves of Rockholm. (And yeah, two of those three were also written by Aaron Allston. Maybe a pattern here.)
1e DMG - Something about everything, even if you wouldn't or shouldn't use it.
Runner up - Moldvay Basic. My first RPG and still a classic.
3rd place - Tome of Mighty Magic from North Pole Publications from the early 80s. Saw it back in the day and finally got a copy a few years ago. Some great spells in there that I'm sometimes tempted to see if I could get permission to make a 5e update of.
Runner up - Moldvay Basic. My first RPG and still a classic.
3rd place - Tome of Mighty Magic from North Pole Publications from the early 80s. Saw it back in the day and finally got a copy a few years ago. Some great spells in there that I'm sometimes tempted to see if I could get permission to make a 5e update of.
Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
Yeah The Grand Duchy of Karameikos is a great book, I was thinking about listing it too, but the Rules Cyclopedia won out.
I thought about putting this one down. Definitely worthy of criticism, but Gygax's overwrought prose captured my imagination for a long time and pulled me into the hobby. I used many of the appendices, especially F-K, long after the rules were supplanted.
