Most useless book ever?

[John Q. Mayhem]

Epic Level Handbook, hands down. I have a hard time believing anyone really uses that thing outside of the bathroom.

Don't be ridiculous, the pages are too glossy to be of even minimal use there.

 

[Aus_Snow]

Even to the staunchest detractors of the 3.0 PsiHB, I can't see how it can hold a candle to the horribleness that was the 2E PsiHB.

Ugh, yeh. Thanks, I'd nearly forgotten that one.

 

[Eva of Sirrion]

For me, savage species. There's some twinked stuff in there, such aas the staff that can start a grapple, and the "rules" for assigning a level adjustment that basically sum up as "it's your call."

 

[Dr. Harry]

Also, Fading Suns d20 (it looked like it promised what I wanted, but I haven't had the moxie to prune it), Deities & Demigods (useless bunch of stats for gods. I wanted mythology!), and the Farscape RPG (no one in my group but me and the SO likes Farscape).

TWK

Hey, I know an old gamer friend in Knoxville who liked farscape! Maybe he would be interested! Unless ... Rog?

 

[MrFilthyIke]

Dragonlords of Melnibone d20

I can't even give it away, because I don't want to dump it on someone without telling them how awful it is, and then they decide they don't want it.

You can send it to me, I loves me all books of all strips.

 

[wakedown]

I'm so happy to see so many people picked Deities & Demigods. I normally eat up any information on deities, but this was a HUGE disappointment. I dropped in on eBay a few weeks after owning it and realizing Complete Divine added more value. I get more mileage out of 2E Monster Mythology than Deities & Demigods.

I never bit on the 3.0 Psionics Handbook, but I find the Expanded Psionics Handbook is very good and have gotten good mileage from it.

 

[Acid_crash]

to me, the most useless book is the one not printed...

But, of those printed, it's got to be Deities and Demigods

 

[Wycen]

I assumed the original poster meant d20, thus my first reaction was 3.0 Psionics book. I use it as a writing surface when it happens to randomly surface.

But for non d20, I'm thinking Aerotech, the boxed set for BattleTech that introduced aerospace fighters. I loved the art and felt it was a natural inclusion to a wargame. Unfortunately, I could never figure out how the hell to run it. Fuel points, speed, turn radius, whatever. I might be able to puzzle it out now, 18? years later, but at the time the only thing I could ever figure out was the bombing and strafing rules as they applied to BattleTech.

 

[Dr. Harry]

I thought is was almost universally agreed that the WORST BOOK EVAR was the Synnabar RPG...


As for D&D/d20, I'll go with the Sundered Reaches Campaign Setting (Fast Forward).

Ah, but I didn't buy Synnibar ... Heaven help me, I did buy a Fast Forward book (Green Races)

 

[Soel]

In hindsight, a lot of those FFG books were pretty useless too. $5 is one thing but when you wish you had that $5 back for some of them is saying something.

Which ones have you got? I might be interested in taking some off your hands if you got something good.