D&D 5E Do you ACTUALLY use 3rd Party Books?

[TheSword]

Lots and lots of adventures. If those adventures have thematic player options or monsters, sure I’ll use them. I’d very rarely use them for player options otherwise.

 

[Jolly Ruby]

From books, I've used a lot of adventures and monsters, and I often use magic items. But what I use more often in my "day-to-day" as a DM are small things like encounters, puzzles, traps, NPCs, small lair or room maps and things that I unplug from the original context, or get from the patreons I subscribe to.
Also, 3pp monsters are a good idea to challenge experienced players with something they don't know yet.

 

[Shiroiken]

I might use 3PP for DM facing things (monsters and magic items), but I don't allow player facing items. The other DM is running Midgard, so obviously he allows stuff from that.

 

[guachi]

More and more for 5e as time goes on. And also many non-5e compatible games. I haven't been impressed with WotC products for at least 4 years now so I've branched out to support a number of Kickstarter campaigns and other stuff. It's probably $1000 worth and Hasbro gets none of it.

 

[Voadam]

Tonight's game I used a Tveirherjar from Creature Codex (reskinned into an Orc warlord with a magic chainsaw), two Red Fangs of Shargaas from Volo's, a Black Sun Orc from Creature Codex, and three Orcs from the MM. The module is a pathfinder one (Lords of Rust) converted to 5e.

 

[CleverNickName]

I use a lot of third-party stuff for 5E. Tonight alone: My homebrew campaign setting is a mashup of the "Seas of Vodari" campaign setting by Tribality Games (maps, setting, rules, subclasses, feats, and spells) and elements from Mystara: Red Steel (maps, lore, magic items), and I use several map packs, monster books, token libraries, and NPCs from the Roll20 Marketplace.

 

[GreyLord]

I play Castles and Crusades. That counts I think...even if not used in conjunction with 5e or even another system.

 

[Fanaelialae]

Yeah, I've allowed plenty of player facing options over the years (albeit, only after careful consideration and sometimes a balance rewrite).

I also use plenty of DM facing options. For my current campaign, I've been using A5E's Monstrous Menagerie instead of the Monster Manual, because I consider it to be an entirely superior product.

 

[Larnievc]

Have you actually used 3rd Party products at your game table in your last campaign or two?
(Books and PDFs, not personal homebrew.)

I've bought lots of 3PP content but none of it has been used apart from monsters...

-edit-

I excluded campaign setting and adventures as those can be pretty system agnostic.

I use anything I can get my hands on. Monster books, world books, character classes, spells, items etc.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I play Castles and Crusades. That counts I think...even if not used in conjunction with 5e or even another system.

Yeah, it's a third party D&D game for sure, legally forked off the 3E ruleset, although Troll Lords seem to be saying now that it never needed the OGL to begin with.