treasured OOP gaming book

[Orius]

I'll add another vote for the World Builder's Guidebook. One of the best damn D&D products I ever bought. I still use it today.

 

[Teflon Billy]

The 2E "Crusades" bopok is also allright, gives a pretty tame and cleaned up version of the Crusades (none of Tancred's nun-murder is mentioned for instance), but all told it's a reasonably accurate timeline and it came with a good map.

Oh wait...GURPS Timeline is also a wonderful resource for any time travel campaign.

 

[Golem2176]

Oh wait...GURPS Timeline is also a wonderful resource for any time travel campaign.

I'm aware of GURPS Time Travel, but not Timeline.

 

[smetzger]

The 1st ed. AD&D Combat wheel. It was only available in Europe. I happened to be visiting family in the UK, picked it up, and the sucker is soooo cool. Useless now, but a real relic. Worth a nice nugget too.

Actually, it was in a Dragon Magazine here in the US. Because I had one. It was the only sane way to use the 1e to hit adjustments for specific armor.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

The Golden Dawn first and foremost. I hunted for this book for years and finally found it on eBay. I think it's one of Pagan's first. Delta Green and Delta Green: Countdown. Countless other Chaosium and Pagan Cthulhu materials. And the 1e books: I bought a lot of the PHB, DMG, MM, and MM2 for a grand total of $20 and when I got them, I was very pleasantly surprised at the practically off-the-shelf condition.

GURPS Conan (I can't wait to see Mongoose's D20 Conan...it has some real boots to fill given the magnificent Gazetteering GURPS did, and the wicked D20'ing Vincent Darlage did on his site).

The gazetteer's not as complete as the GURPS version (doesn't cover some of the little places like Kosala or Pathenia), so you'll want to keep a hold of your GURPS book, at least for now. I know I am. There's not really any overlap with Vincent's site, which is good; whereas he handles the NPCs, Mongoose covers everything else. Also, Vincent's writing the gazetteer book that Mongoose is bringing out, IIRC.

 

[d4]

I'm aware of GURPS Time Travel, but not Timeline.

long out of print. (my copy says it was printed in 1992.)

basically a long timeline of historical events, from 15 billion years ago (the Big Bang) to the present (1992).

besides the actual timeline, contains lots and lots of sidebar articles covering interesting historical details in more depth.

it's a must-have if you are planning on running a time travel campaign.

and the title GURPS Timeline is something of a misnomer -- there's almost no GURPS rules content in it at all. and when i say "almost none" i don't mean there's a little here and there -- flipping through it just now i only saw one paragraph that had anything rulesy in it.

 

[DMO]

My most used OOP product would have to be I.C.E.'s Cloudlords of Tanara. I got it with the 1st Edition Rolemaster boxed set -- this was one of the precursor products to Terry Amthor's SHADOW WORLD setting -- and I've been mining it for probably fifteen years now. It's got some fabulous maps and layouts. I just love it.

The product I'd most like to see reprinted is PLANESCAPE.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

I've got a box of Spawn of Fashan. Double bonus points if you remember it!

Heroic Roleplay in the lands of West, Where Melvin is Standing Now?

The Dumb Names Curse?

The truely random table for special abilities? (Hmmm, it appears that I have the ability to see around corners...)

Nope, never heard of it!

The Auld Grump, now there is a setting that should be explored for D20!

Oh, and I still treasure my copies of Milleniums End and Babylon Project by Chameleon Eclectic...

 

[TheAuldGrump]

The 2E "Crusades" bopok is also allright, gives a pretty tame and cleaned up version of the Crusades (none of Tancred's nun-murder is mentioned for instance), but all told it's a reasonably accurate timeline and it came with a good map.

Oh wait...GURPS Timeline is also a wonderful resource for any time travel campaign.

I rather liked the 'Mighty Fortress' supplement, but then again I am a big fan of the reformation/counter reformation era.

The Auld Grump, and yeah, that was a bit sanitized as well...

 

[S'mon]

[The gazetteer's not as complete as the GURPS version (doesn't cover some of the little places like Kosala or Pathenia)...

The Mongoose game's gazeteer deliberately only covers areas created by REH, not by de Camp and the pastiches, so no Pathenia etc. In fact the game deliberately ignores all post-Howard Conan, as far as I can tell.