Name your favorite D&D book

[ivocaliban]

Rules Cyclopedia, hands down.

 

[Jupp]

Planescape campaign box. It really changed the way for me on how to play D&D. That new playstyle was totally cool and when Hellbound:Blood War came out it was almost perfect.

 

[IronWolf]

Forgotten Realms, the Old Gray Box set. I love the Realms! I's already been playing D&D for several years before this came out, but I have to rank this one as my Favorite. The Player's Handbook as unoriginal as that may sound is a close second.

 

[francisca]

My top 10:
1) 1st Edition AD&D DMG
2) 1st Edition AD&D MM
3) 1st Edition AD&D PHB
4) Moldvay Basic
5) 1st Edition Gamma World
6) Cook Expert
7) Greyhawk 1983 Boxed Set
8) Lankhmar, City of Adventure 1st Edition
9) Thieve's World Boxed Set by Chaosium (GR has their work cut out for them)
A) Stone to Steel

#1 is head and shoulders above the rest for me.
#2-5 are pretty interchangeable, as are #6-A

 

[DaveStebbins]

I named mine Buddy!



Sorry, that's the first thing that popped into my head when I read the thread title.

-Dave

 

[Brund the Decrepit]

I will second the Rules Cyclopedia!

But as others have said there are just sooo many to choose from....

 

[PJ-Mason]

Manual of the Planes 3.0. Handsdown.

With Bluffside and Arcana Unearthed as honorable mentions.

 

[Gothmog]

Its hard to rank all my favorites, but #1 would have to be the 1E AD&D DMG. Other books high on the list are:

3.5 PHB
Codex Arcanis setting from Paradigm
Midnight Campaign Setting
Book of Fiends
Fiend Folio for 3E
2E Historical green book series

 

[Pants]

My favorite book by far:
Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 3.0

Runners up:
Draconomicon
Eberron Campaign Setting (I like Eberron more than FR, but the FR book is just so damn good...)
2e Monstrous Manual
Planescape Monstrous Compendium I
Frostburn
Expanded Psionics Handbook

 

[Ellie_the_Elf]

Another vote here for the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting!

Other favourites include Magic of Faerun (which I bought for ideas for a wizard I was playing in a homebrew campaign, and it inspired me enough for me to go out a few days later to get the campaign setting, and from there to start running my FR campaign) and the Draconomicon.

Ellie.