[OT] What is the most "wasted" money spent on a gaming item.

[talinthas]

the creature collection and relics and rituals by sword and sorc. i thought they looked cool cause they came out at the same time as 3e, but those books are completely and utterly useless to me.

 

[Jolly Giant]

Most recently, I would say the Hero Building book. That one was pretty bad.

It was absolutely terrible... I've occasionally lifted some NPC names from the namelists in it, other than that it's seen no use what so ever.

"If you're gonna play a wizard, it's not a good idea to choose half-orc as your race, because they get -2 INT..."

"Dwarves make good fighters, because they get +2 CON..."

"Elves make good archers, because they get +2 DEX..."

Thanks for the advice, Herobuilder's Guidebook, but I think I could have figured out this stuff myself...

 

[Chingerspy]

Oh man!
I have bought soooooo much that just collects dust a lot of it never ever used from a variety of systems.

Sample of things never played:
CoC D20
Spycraft (and I have nearly all the sourcebooks too)
Traveller (+ a few sourcebooks)
Star Wars D6 (lots of books too)
Werewolf: TA
Kindred of the East
Wraith

I love all the above but due to lack of interest or time they are shelved must be hundreds of pounds just there.

 

[Madfox]

If one considers 'never having used it' the criteria for wasted money, I could fill pages with titles. I am one of those persons who buys many things even when he knows it will never be used. I love to read d20 products, so I don't consider such things a waste. Besides, sometimes I surprise myself by finding some use for a book Weird as it may seem, but in a current campaign I find myself using The Book of Artifacts more and more, even though it is a 2nd edition book and I am running a 3rd edition game If anything, I kind of regret buying so many miniatures, which I never get to pain anyway, but I keep buying them now and then...

 

[diaglo]

The box set of that Forgotten Realms super-dungeon city thing who's name completely fails me at this point. Never used it, didn't like it, been mostly crushed in a shelf.

Might check in the closet and see if there's anything worth salvaging in it. It wasn't what I was looking for, regardless of how good it might actually have been.

is that the Undermountain stuff or the Labyrinth of Madness or Night Below boxed set or ....?

 

[diaglo]

D&D Rules Cyclopedia. I had only played a couple of times, I had no idea which books I needed and the person that picked the books up at the store for me got the Rules Cyclopedia

i'll buy that. i love RC.

i have multiple copies already. but you can never have enough.

 

[WizarDru]

It's great how many of these things classified as worthless I like. Variety is the spice of life and all that.

I think you're confusing quality with 'waste', here. A lot of things listed here aren't poor quality, they were a waste of money for the person who bought them. Consider the d100s that have been mentioned, for example, or the game systems purchased and never used.

Although, while I'm at it, I bought Relics & Rituals at half price, and I STILL consider it to have been a waste of money. In October of 2000, it was probably pretty cool, being the first...but by later standards, it doesn't compare as well, IMHO. I will NEVER use it again.

 

[Siridar]

About 4/5th of my gaming library, I'd considered a waste. Stuff I've either used once or never at all. Most stuff is usually an impulse buy.

Wheel of Time d20
Star Wars d20
Star Wars Revised d20 (yes, I'm that stupid)
Epic Level Handbook
Psionics Handbook
FR Campaign Setting
FR Magic book (whatever it's called)
Hero Builder's Guidebook

Warhammer 40k

There's plenty more waste, but I just can't remember it all.

 

[Arnwyn]

Not much that I won't use, but there are a couple of things:

- FR Faiths & Pantheons: what? it's just a couple of snippets from the far-superior three previous FR god-books (F&A, P&P, DD)? Doh.
- D&D Diablo: Oog... my players would *never* want to go through this "dungeon". I successfully unloaded it, though.
- FFE's Demons & Devils (and the companion adventure): I wasn't very inspired, and even though I added every one of the monsters to my encounter charts, I still don't think I'll ever use these two books.

 

[Negative Zero]

No, I think we're talking about products you actually held in your hands. If it gets shipped (even a year later), that doesn't count.

yes, but at what point do you give up hope and say it's never coming?

~NegZ