Ten D&D Books to Survive the Apocalypse

[Elf Witch]

1 3.5 DMG
2 3.5 Players Handbook
3 3.5 Monster Manual
4 Kingdoms of Kalamar campaign setting
5 Spell Compendium
6 Dragonlance campaign setting
7 Psionics Handbook
8 Races of the Dragon
9 Draconomicon
10 Complete Arcane

 

[rounser]

Rules Cyclopedia (BECM)
Priests Spell Compendium 1-3 (2E)
Wizards Spell Compendium 1-4 (2E)
Encyclopedia Magica 1-4 (2E)

Okay, that's eleven...but there is enough D&D playability to last multiple lifetimes there.

 

[howandwhy99]

1. Chainmail
2. D&D original box set
3-6. Supplements 1-4
7. Wilderness Survival
8. Wooden Ships & Iron Men
9-10. Monster Manual I & II

#2's a cheat, I know. But all those are really important to have for me.

I'd also love to add in 1E's treatment of Deities & Demigods.

 

[avin]

1 - 2E Monstrous Manual
2 - 3.5 Monster Manual
3 - 4E dungeon master guide...

...wait, who I'm kidding? Insert 10 Planescape books here and I'll be fine

 

[crazy_monkey1956]

1. D&D (BECM) Rules Cyclopedia
2. D&D 4E Rules Compendium
3. Pathfinder Core Rulebook
4. Pathfinder Bestiary
5. D&D 4E Heroes of the Fallen Lands
6. AD&D 2E Player's Handbook
7. AD&D 2E Monstrous Manual
8. D&D 4E Monster Manual
9. D&D 3.5E Spell Compendium
10. D&D 3.5 Rules Compendium

 

[jdeleski]

My recommendations are purely selfish, of course, and heavily dependent upon the campaign that I'm currently running...

1. Pathfinder Core Rulebook - my currently-favored campaign ruleset;
2. Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide - for my players to tinker with;
3. Pathfinder Bestiary - for me (the DM) to tinker with;
4. Shackled City Adventure Path - our base campaign, Cauldron as a backdrop;
5. Savage Tide Adventure Path - providing customizations and possibly a different endgame to the SC campaign, depending upon what the players do;
6. Ptolus - providing custom details of the continent's largest city;
7. Heroes of Horror - adding rules and surprises
8. Book of Vile Darkness - adding even more rules and surprises
9. Magic Item Compendium - adding unusual items for ever-greedy PC's
10. Draconomicon - providing details and "color" for the various dragons that the PC's have, and will, encounter.

I'd need these for our game to survive the apocalypse.

J.

 

[Swedish Chef]

1 - 3.5 PHB
2 - 3.5E DMG
3 - 3.5E MM
4 - 2E - Monstrous Manual
5 - 1E Forgotten Realms Boxed Set
6 - 3.5E Magic Compendium
7 - 3.5E Spell Compendium
8 - 3.0E Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting
9 - 3.5 - Draconomicon
10 - 2E Ruins of Myth Drannor Boxed Set

 

[Stormonu]

I'm a little surprised to see the D&D Rules Cyclopedia popping up in so many lists.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Only dnd books? Sorry.. if only they survived then I'd use them for kindling.

DCA
M&M 2e
Ultimate Power
Masterminds Manual
Warriors and Warlocks
Aces and Eights (because its a pretty book)
Sidewinder reloaded.

I have no idea what other three books else I would save.

 

[Achan hiArusa]

D&D books only, I don't know if i could do that, but if I could only keep 10 books from my collection they would be:

1. 3.5 Player's Handbook
2. D&D Cyclopedia
3. 3rd Edition Runequest boxed set
4. Alternity Player's Handbook
5. Vampire the Masquerade (Revised Edition)
6. Ars Magica
7. Cyberpunk 2020
8. Exalted
9. World of Darkness System Rulebook
10. d20 Modern