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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 1331282" data-attributes="member: 8863">You know, I was thinking of starting up a thread like this myself.   My favorites are pretty much all 2e era, since that's when I first picked up a PHB and rolled the dice.  I don't know the old classics.Anyway, here's my pre-3e favorites:World Builder's Guidebook:  Hands down the best product I ever bought.  I definitely got my money's worth with it.  Has some great guidelines to work with, has that pad of hex mapping paper.  I still use it today.Encyclopedia Magica:  Every magic item from the first 20 years of D&D.  Yummy.  There's more stuff in these books than I could ever use.  A nice resorce for players who haven't been around from the beginning.  I also liked the fake leather type covers and ribbon bookmarks used in the original printings.  Biggest downside: too much to convert to 3e.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />Wizard's/Priest's Spell Compendium:  I like it for the same reason I like the Encyclopedia Magica.  Both sets also included interesting rules in the appendices, and the idea of spell rarity was a great idea, I use it in my own game to make the series more managable.  Unfortunately, like the Encyclopedia Magica, it's all 2e, although spells are pretty easy to port into 3e.  Also, the last Priest's Spell Compendium was released only months before 3e came out, so I didn't get the opportunity to really use the material in 2e.Monstrous Compendium Annuals:  I like monster books, so these are also more favorites of mine.  The only downside is that the monsters were usually just copied from their source, so some were still pretty campaign specific.D&D Rules Cyclopedia: The one product I regret not getting.  It's a shame TSR killed off Basic D&D, because this was a great product for new DMs to learn with.  The 2e DMG was sub-par in that it assumed DMs had already worked their way up through Basic D&D.Hrrrmmm...interesting.  My favorites seem to be mostly products that compiled "crunchy bits" from earlier products.</blockquote>

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