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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fimmtiu" data-source="post: 1718497" data-attributes="member: 7953">I vote for pretty much all the books that WOTC kept cranking out once they'd run dry of ideas. The Complete Whatevers... expensive hardcover reprints of their softcover books. Arms and Equipment Guide, the 160-page shopping list. And I'd have to mention the Planar Handbook, just because it's drier than a phone book compared to the juicy Planescape material that preceded it.I was just reading over the ELH the other night, actually, and was surprised by how bad it was. Still, I don't think I'd call it "bland"... misguided and hideously maimed, but not boring.Most of the (admittedly few) third-party books I've read have been quite unbland. I thought Gamma World d20, for instance, was an amazing book. It did a good job of getting the setting across without setting up a "canon", and the community rules were particularly innovative and well-suited to the world. The Magical Medieval Society book had a lot of dry bits, but the city-building section and the economic system were noteworthy enough to keep it off my "blandest" list. Sword & Sorcery's Advanced Player's Guide, on the other hand, was as stale as a week-old Wonder Bread crust. God, what a disorganized pile of ill-thought-out rule-manglings.</blockquote>