The Best & Worst of 3rd Edition: WotC Player Supplements (Winners Announced)

[Greg K]

The Complete series also gave us cool stuff like the warlock, the scout, reserve feats, divine metamagic, sudden metamagic, skill tricks, lots of cool spells, etc.

It think it might come down to the above. I didn't like most of the stuff you mentioned including the warlock and scout. Reserved feats, imo, were an interesting idea, but I didn't like most of them mechanically ( I really would like to see Ari's original rules on the subject), and most spells I didn't think were cool (Complete Arcane being the exception, but most of the spells that I liked were orignially from Tome & Blood) and are disallowed in the games I run .

Oh, and I agree with you about S&S.

 

[Nonlethal Force]

I passed on most of the 3.0 stuff, sinceI didn't actually start buying 3.x supplements until after 3.0 came out.

But ... I can say that I enjoyed most of the complete series prior (and not including) Scoundrel. [I am oneof the nay votes to CPsi, though! And I love psionics ... ] I loved the new classes (All of 'em) and while it took a while Reserve feats have finally grown on me.

EDIT: To the OP ...

Could you put something like "1 of X" or "2 of X" (With X being the total number of similar polls you intend on doing in this series) in the title of the polls? I know that you've said that you are making multiple polls, and that would make it easier to track for me and others like me who are interested in these polls.

 

[TerraDave]

Nonlethal: Good Idea.

 

[Nonlethal Force]

Nonlethal: Good Idea.

Thanks! It happens once and a while. Unfortunately, I blew my one good idea so early in 2008. Now I have to wait a whole year before hoping for another one to hit me!

 

[Arnwyn]

Nonlethal: Good Idea.

Thanks! These threads of yours are pretty fun.

 

[TerraDave]

With 50 votes,

The most liked are:

Player's Handbook II I LIKED 72.00%
Complete Warrior I LIKED 62.00%
Complete Arcane I LIKED 62.00%
Complete Mage I LIKED 50.00%
Complete Adventurer I LIKED 48.00%
Tome and Blood: A Guidebook to ...44.00%
Savage Species I LIKED 38.00%
Complete Scoundrel I LIKED 38.00%
Sword and Fist: A Guidebook ...I LIKED 36.00%
Complete Divine I LIKED 36.00%

Only real surprise are the two splatbooks that managed to make it in (though I guess one poster did say they liked those more...)

And the least popular

Races of Destiny I did NOT LIKE 58.00%
Hero Builder's Guidebook I did NOT LIKE 48.00%
Defenders of the Faith: A Guidebook to ... 44.00%
Complete Divine I did NOT LIKE 42.00%
Complete Psionic I did NOT LIKE 42.00%
Races of the Wild I did NOT LIKE 40.00%
Races of the Dragon I did NOT LIKE 40.00%
Planar Handbook I did NOT LIKE 36.00%
Song and Silence: A Guidebook to Bards and Rogues I did NOT LIKE 34.00%
Races of Stone I did NOT LIKE 34.00%

Giving Complete Divine the dubious distinction of being on both the most liked and least liked lists in the early voting.

 

[Jhaelen]

Even though I finally got some use out of it, Complete Psion still gets my vote for the worst 3E supplement EVER. I have to admit, though, this is partly because my expectations were so high. I still get angry over all that wasted potential...

Apart from that most of the Complete Series contained something I liked. My favorites are Complete Warrior, Adventurer and Champion followed by Complete Mage. Please note, that this is from a DM's perspective.

I liked Races of Stone better than I expected after shunning it for a loooong time. But the others seem to be really pretty uninspired.
As was mentioned in another thread on this board this is probably because without being setting-specific there isn't much you can do in a Races book.

PHB2 is easily the best of this bunch - as the poll seems to confirm.

 

[Mistwell]

Did I miss Tome of Battle: Book of Nine Swords?

 

[TerraDave]

Mistwell: its in poll #1, with a bunch of other stuff.

 

[TerraDave]

Arnwyn: your welcome.

With 105 votes

Ten most popular

Player's Handbook II I LIKED 74.07%
Complete Warrior I LIKED 63.89%
Complete Arcane I LIKED 62.96%
Complete Adventurer I LIKED 55.56%
Complete Mage I LIKED 52.78%
Tome and Blood: A Guidebook to Wizards and Sorcerers I LIKED 41.67%
Heroes of Horror I LIKED 40.74%
Complete Scoundrel I LIKED 40.74%
Complete Divine I LIKED 37.96%
Sword and Fist: A Guidebook to Monks and Fighters I LIKED 35.19%

And ten least popular

Races of Destiny I did NOT LIKE 48.15%
Hero Builder's Guidebook I did NOT LIKE 43.52%
Complete Psionic I did NOT LIKE 42.59%
Races of the Dragon I did NOT LIKE 35.19%
Races of the Wild I did NOT LIKE 33.33%
Complete Divine I did NOT LIKE 32.41%
Defenders of the Faith: A Guidebook to Clerics and Paladins I did NOT LIKE 30.56%
Song and Silence: A Guidebook to Bards and Rogues I did NOT LIKE 29.63%
Savage Species I did NOT LIKE 29.63%
Planar Handbook I did NOT LIKE 27.78%

Couple of observations: What is easy to splat, at least for WotC: arcane spellcasters. Divine casters and races they seemed to have a harder time with.