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@CleverNickName said they wouldn't do another thread and in the Companion thread people wondered if there could be another. This one should also be short-lived, as I'm splitting sourcebooks from adventures: otherwise it wouldn't be fair!
Here's a list of the sourcebooks and campaign settings for 5th Edition D&D to date. I'm going by Wizards' classification, which has some things as sourcebooks and some as adventures. If you disagree, take it up with them!
You all know the rules by now, but I'll post them here anyway just in case.
HOW TO PLAY
Three important points that you must read before voting--
Ultimately, the whole point of this thread is to have fun. Some people really want this to be a "Best In Show" contest, and they get really worked up when (not 'if') their favorites get eliminated (I am sometimes one of those people). But hopefully we have all figured out how this works by now. For the newly-initiated, remember that this is not an election, nor is it a survey or a job evaluation. Frankly, this is a celebration of the hard work @CleverNickName put into these threads.
LIST OF SOURCEBOOKS IN 5E D&D
(as of August 10, 2023)
Volo’s Guide to Monsters (sourcebook, 2016)
Xanathar’s Guide to Everything (sourcebook, 2017)
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes (sourcebook, 2018)
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything (sourcebook, 2020)
Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons (sourcebook, 2021)
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse (sourcebook, 2022)
The Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide (campaign setting, 2015)
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica (campaign setting, 2018)
Acquisitions Incorporated (campaign setting, 2019)
Eberron: Rising from the Last War (campaign setting, 2019)
Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount (campaign setting, 2020)
Mythic Odysseys of Theros (campaign setting, 2020)
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft (campaign setting, 2021)
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space (campaign setting, 2022)
Here's a list of the sourcebooks and campaign settings for 5th Edition D&D to date. I'm going by Wizards' classification, which has some things as sourcebooks and some as adventures. If you disagree, take it up with them!
You all know the rules by now, but I'll post them here anyway just in case.
HOW TO PLAY
- Only the sourcebooks and campaign settings that have been published in print by Wizards of the Coast are included. Third-party publishers, or materials that were only released electronically, are not included.
- Each entry starts with 20 points.
- Every day, you vote for one book that you like, which gains 1 point. And then you vote for a different book, which loses 2 points. It is intentional that a negative vote is worth more than a positive vote, because math.
- Mark your upvotes in green, and downvotes in red. Or just show them in bold text and use "+1" and "-2" to mark them, if colored text is too difficult on your browsing device.
- It's easier if you just copy and paste the previous poster’s vote and change the numbers; the Quote function isn't the best for this.
- You may vote only once per day. This is an honor system, and we are all honorable gamers; please do not abuse it. If this means you vote once at night one day, and once the next morning - that's fine, but don't vote again until the following day. Rule of thumb: if your most recent vote post says "yesterday" in the time stamp, you can vote again.
- This is just another Internet popularity contest and you do not have to explain an upvote or downvote, but feel free to do so...those explanations are where the fun is! And the more outlandish, petty, or nitpicky your reasons for voting, the better!
- When downvotes reach 0 the sourcebook is removed from the list.
- Finally, if an entry has one point left, then you have to make the choice to use all of your downvotes to eliminate it; there is no vote splitting. In addition, you can't upvote and downvote the same entry (no "see" votes). And you have to use BOTH YOUR UPVOTE AND DOWNVOTE if you vote.
Three important points that you must read before voting--
- This is just a popularity contest, and it's supposed to be fun. You can cast your votes for whatever reason you want; a book that you used a lot, a book you wanted to love but hated, a book that contains Drizzt Do'Urden, whatever. But this is for enjoyment only. If you experience anger, hostility, or other evidence of Not Having Fun, you're doing it wrong.
- As always, the list is the list. If you have a complaint about the list, please direct it to //dev/null.
This list only includes the sourcebooks that were released in print by Wizards of the Coast. If I included all vaguely-licensed books, the list would be hundreds of items; cutting it down would require me to pick my favorites, and this is a vote to determine the consensus favorite, not mine. Wizards makes distinctions in its products: there are sourcebooks, campaign settings, and adventures. Both sourcebooks and campaign settings combined are only 14 items, so I'm combining them to speed things up. Also, the recent Spelljammer box set has additional sourcebooks in with the adventure, namely Astral Adventurer’s Guide (a sourebook), Boo's Astral Menagerie (a bestiary), and Light of Xaryxis (an adventure module). I've elected to include only the one instance of Spelljammer, because otherwise it's getting multiple chances in the vote and that also doesn't seem fair.
Ultimately, the whole point of this thread is to have fun. Some people really want this to be a "Best In Show" contest, and they get really worked up when (not 'if') their favorites get eliminated (I am sometimes one of those people). But hopefully we have all figured out how this works by now. For the newly-initiated, remember that this is not an election, nor is it a survey or a job evaluation. Frankly, this is a celebration of the hard work @CleverNickName put into these threads.
LIST OF SOURCEBOOKS IN 5E D&D
(as of August 10, 2023)
Volo’s Guide to Monsters (sourcebook, 2016)
Xanathar’s Guide to Everything (sourcebook, 2017)
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes (sourcebook, 2018)
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything (sourcebook, 2020)
Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons (sourcebook, 2021)
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse (sourcebook, 2022)
The Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide (campaign setting, 2015)
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica (campaign setting, 2018)
Acquisitions Incorporated (campaign setting, 2019)
Eberron: Rising from the Last War (campaign setting, 2019)
Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount (campaign setting, 2020)
Mythic Odysseys of Theros (campaign setting, 2020)
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft (campaign setting, 2021)
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space (campaign setting, 2022)
