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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 5255898" data-attributes="member: 29398">Best D+D stuff evar?1. 1e DMG.  All that rich writing and wonderfully chaotic organization, with wandering harlots too!  It just doesn't get any better!2. 1e Players' Handbook.  Almost as good as the DMG but there's a distinct lack of harlots...3. 0e Basic Set (the red books).  The foundation on which everything else was built.4. The first 15 or so TSR adventure modules, taken as a batch.  We might argue over which specific ones, but who here can't list 10 true classics out of them?  There's been some good adventures since, but never all in a bunch like this.5. City State of the [Invincible Overlord/World Emperor, pick one].  Horribly written and laid out but get past that and it's a DM's gold mine: there's enough ideas in there to build an entire campaign around.6. Gamescience crystal dice.  They never wear out!7. The Priests' and Wizards' Spell Compendia from 2e.  Still the standard by which all other spell lists are measured.8. 3e Monster Manual.  Ignoring the ugly statblocks, they managed to put enough new monsters in here to overwhelm the repeats; and the art is good enough that you can actually tell what each monster is supposed to look like!9a. Old school metal character pieces. (but not monsters)9b. 3e plastic monster minis. (but not character minis)10. Dragon Magazine up to about issue 100.  True magic, as each month we could literally watch the game develop before our eyes.And a few things that could and should have been excellent, but weren't:The Book of Erotic Fantasy.  The game has been crying out for something like this since the dawn of time but this book blew the opportunity so badly it's likely closed the door for any similar future product even if done well.  And that's a whole lot of sad.Most early Judges' Guild adventure modules.  They had some amazing ideas.  Problem was, those ideas were put to paper by people who often seemed unable to consistently type, spell, proofread, or draw, and all couched in a nigh-incomprehensible stats system designed to avoid copyright issues.1e Unearthed Arcana.  While there's some nuggets here, a careful reader of Dragon mag. would have already found those nuggets and also got a better version of some of the rest of UA's content.  Otherwise, a spectacular chance to augment and expand 1e was largely butchered on the altar of power creep.Lan-"I can't type, spell, proofread or draw either - just ask my players"-efan</blockquote>

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