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

[ad_hoc]

I didn't vote because it isn't that I don't allow them we just don't use them.

 

[kigmatzomat]

In the game I am in now we use Tome of Heroes for some downtime activities, Magical Medieval Society Western Europe (3e) for setting up manors & such, various 3pp adventures, plus some monsters (not sure how many are from monster supplements or from adventures).

When I was running d&d, I used various 3p adventures, mmsw:we, allowed a class from online sources, and probably some other stuff.

 

[Parmandur]

I've gotten good use out of Kobold Press Midgard Setting and Mosnter books. And I play DCC and Call of Cthulu as well, but those aren't D&D properly so I dunno if "third party" is accurate.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

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

Excluding campaign settings and adventures is a laughable attempt to bias the results.

Fortunately almost all of those contain some player options and monsters.

Kobold Press Midgard Setting

Midgard rocks! I'm not in a Midgard campaign right now but I kind of wish I was.

 

[Parmandur]

Midgard rocks! I'm not in a Midgard campaign right now but I kind of wish I was.

I love the big Setting book. A literal mine of ideas.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Magical Medieval Society Western Europe (3e) for setting up manors & such

MMS:WE is one of the greatest third party books of the 3E era. It makes me sad how few people remember it now. (To be fair, the company that publishes it has since gone all-in on 1E stuff, so that limits how well known they are outside those circles now.)

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I've gotten good use out of Kobold Press Midgard Setting and Mosnter books. And I play DCC and Call of Cthulu as well, but those aren't D&D properly so I dunno if "third party" is accurate.

DCC is a D&D derivative. Goodman is open about their desire to make it the game that OD&D "felt" like back in the late 1970s, rather than the game it actually was. It takes the gonzo way the game was often played (Nazis tanks versus D&D characters!) and bakes that into the actual mechanics.

 

[Parmandur]

DCC is a D&D derivative. Goodman is open about their desire to make it the game that OD&D "felt" like back in the late 1970s, rather than the game it actually was. It takes the gonzo way the game was often played (Nazis tanks versus D&D characters!) and bakes that into the actual mechanics.

Yes, but it stands on it's own, unlike Kobold Press purely 5E support products.

 

[Jd Smith1]

Nope.

 

[kigmatzomat]

MMS:WE is one of the greatest third party books of the 3E era. It makes me sad how few people remember it now. (To be fair, the company that publishes it has since gone all-in on 1E stuff, so that limits how well known they are outside those circles now.)

MMS:Silk Road was equally good.

Much of those books were so world-building foundational that it is essentially independent of any game system. There were some aspects that acknowledge specific spells, but they were sufficiently transparent on their rational that it can easily be guidance on how to leverage any other system's magic as it was more about the effect of the magic (flight, movement, lighting, earth moving, etc).

My only problem with them is more an acknowledgement that the majority of gamers will find it fairly boring conceptually and the remainder will become virtually addicted to it in an almost game-derailing fashion as they gleefully dive through the tables like Scrooge McDuck in his money bin.