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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 318697" data-attributes="member: 2205">Eh, what the heck, I'll play.  As tradition demands, in no particular order!<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">PHB:  You need it to play, it's the most flexible D&D yet and without it, d20 wouldn't exist.  It has to be in the top 10.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">DMG:  To a certain extent, you also need this to play, plus it introduces lots of options that never existed in D&D before.  Unfortunately, that wasn't taken quite as far as I'd like to see, but still, a top ten book.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">MM:  Gorgeous book.  I never did understand the complaints about the layout.  This is probably my favorite of the core books.  But then again, I really like monster books for some reason!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Manual of the Planes:  Probably the single best non-Core supplement.  Beautifully and elegantly done, as a modular toolset that can be easily adapted to any campaign.  What more could you want?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Oriental Adventures:  Nearly as beautiful and as useful as Manual of the Planes and for many of the same reasons.  Although meant to be used as a whole, it's great as a book to borrow liberally from.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Wheel of Time RPG:  In many ways, more of what I'm looking for than D&D itself!  Non-magic core classes, AC increases as you level, a great spellcasting mechanic (if a bit setting specific) I like this book more for what it can give my D&D game than for the setting it was written to play in.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Legions of Hell:  Another of my favorite monster supplements.  Sometimes, when it's late and I'm just waiting to fall asleep, I'll read this and Manual of the Planes together and dream of the evil I'm going to unleash on my hapless campaign! <img src="http://jdyal.freezope.org/evil.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dragonstar: Starfarer's Handbook:  How else do you use d20 in the future? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Not only that, things like firearms combat and vehicle combat are very well done.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">d20 Call of Cthulhu:  GREATEST GAME EVAR!!!!11!!!  Well, I really like it anyway, as something different than D&D.  This book is the one that convinced me that d20 really was viable as a "universal" system with minor tweaks.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">FRCS:  Although I have little interest in playing the Realms, why goodness, what a beautiful book!  Tons of stuff to steal for my own setting as well!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></li> </ul></blockquote>

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