What d20 Purchases to you Regret?

[Katerek]

So, here it is 2004 and we have all been at this a while. I have noticed an increase in folks asking if this book or that book was worth a crap or not and it got me to thinking. If you I had to do it all over again, would I spend the $5000+ that I have spent on gaming in the last three years? The answer was a marked yes, but I would spend it different. I find that there are alot of books and utilities on my shelves that just don't get used. If I knew then, what I know now here is what I would have bought:

Core Books (duh)
Liber Beastarius
Monsternomicon
The WoTC non-world specific hardbacks
The Fantasy Flight Games Hardbacks
Everything Green Ronin
Everything Malhavoc
Dragon and Dungeon MAgs (though not all of them)

And that is about it. That is the list of what has actually seen use in my games. Pretty much everything else has been fluff.

What about you guys?

 

[Utrecht]

Well, looking back,

I would not have bought the following:

Any of my Scared Lands stuff (CC 1 & 2) and Relics and Rituals all quite bad books (given todays standards) - but I would keep Hollofaust for idea minining.

likely the Class Splat books - while they were good in their day - they just have not held up to the test of time.

Bluffside - just to wonky for me - while it has some "interesting" ideas it has not justified the costs.

Genevue(sp) Better than bluffside, but once Cityworks and A Magical Medieval Society came out - my need for city books went away.

Dieties and Demigods - I have absolutely Zero need for this book

And as much as I am ashamed to admit purchasing - the Hero Builder's Guide...


I guess I should say what I would keep:

Penumbria's Campaign Books - Crime and Punishment and Dynesties & Demagogues
Oriental Adventures
Rogukan Campaign Book
FR Campaign book
Kalamar Campaign book
Core Books
MM 2 & Fiend Folio
Book of Vile Darkness (but have not bought the Good version)
Manual of the Planes
The book of the Rightous
Fantasy Flights' Legent and Lairs
I am torn on my additional Green Ronin stuff - It is good stuff - jaut have never used it.
Dungeon
Dragon - but I am becomming less enamored with it - I look forward to it each month - and feel let down each month.
Epic Level hanbook - I like it but have not used it
Psionis Handbook - I am of the Psionics are kewl camp
FR books - Underdark, Faiths and Pantheons, Lords of Darkness, Magic of Faren and Monsters of Faerun.

 

[Harlock]

I'd have pssed on the WotC splatbooks.

 

[The_Gneech]

I probably would not have bothered with "City of the Spider Queen," "Monsters of Norrath," and a handful of mini-adventures. But on the whole, I'm so stingy with my gaming dollar (since I don't have that many), I generally don't get something until I've really weighed the issue.

-The Gneech

 

[Arnwyn]

The WotC splatbooks. Also FFE's Demons & Devils, since I didn't know anything about them and bought it right when it came out.

I do my research on all books, now - and I'm happy with everything else I've bought.

 

[Malk]

lets see the only thing that i regret buying was the star wars rpg if only because i could never find anyone willing to play it. other than that i have enjoyed all of my books even if i dont use them, i regret not having the money to get every wotc hardback cause they are all outstanding.

 

[WizarDru]

Relics and Rituals. Even at 50% off, I feel like it was money poorly spent.

Rappan Athuk 1. It just struck me as shoddy workmanship, all around. I know some folks really like it, but toilet seat mimics just scream "move out of your parent's basement" to me.

More than a handful of modules that I found utterly useless, poorly designed or just a great, big mess.

I haven't regretted the purchase of things like the classbooks or any other WotC product that I've managed to get some use out of (although my satisfaction has varied widely amongst them). Even if I didn't use them much, I was very enthusiastic to read them when they were offered, however poorly conceived they may have been, and however little use they actually saw.

 

[Davelozzi]

I don't really regret any of my purchases as even the ones that I don't really like I mostly bought to satisfy my curiousity. Specifically, I could do without the few books that I bought for Scarred Lands (Ghelspad harcover, Ghelspad gazeteer, DM's screen) and Kalamar (campaign setting, player's guide, first coin module) as well as AEG's Swashbuckling Adventures.

Actually, there is one that I regret, it's the first module in the Maze of Zayene series.

 

[Crothian]

There are a few things in my life I'll regret, but buying a book will never be among them. There are books I have little use for, so I try to find them a home with someone who will use it. Most of the modern games I've bought like Spycraft and d20 Modern I've found homes with other peoples on the boards. Heck, even Mutants and MAsterminds and its many great books have found homes with others. I don't regret giving these books away to people who like and appriciate them.

Of the books I keep they are of a wide amount of quality. I may not have used them yet, but I'm not finished gaming either. A book that has dust on it now could in a few years inspire the campaign or a character I've been flirting with.

 

[d4]

let's see... things i regret wasting money on:

Psionics Handbook
Manual of the Planes
Fiend Folio
Savage Species
Deities & Demigods
Kalamar Player's Guide
Tome of Horrors
Empire
Cry Havoc

things that i'm really glad i got:

Nyambe
Testament
MMS: WE
the 3.5 core rule books
d20 Modern
Darwin's World 2e

i've bought a lot of other stuff that i'm just neutral on: don't think they're a waste, but haven't really gotten a lot of good use out of, either.