What d20 Purchases to you Regret?

[Pseudonym]

FRCS (WoTC) - yes, it's beautiful, yes, it's really well done, but I don't play in an FR campaign, and the mechanics are generally too powerful (spell prodigy, anyone? Order of the Bow Initiate, anyone?)

Order of the Bow Initiate is not in the FRCS. That gem comes from Sword and Fist.

 

[Teflon Billy]

um....are you one of those anti-d20 people that for some reason frequent d20 boards

He is their King

 

[der_kluge]

Order of the Bow Initiate is not in the FRCS. That gem comes from Sword and Fist.

You are correct. I am mistaken. I would have regretted purchasing Sword and Fist, but I never purchased,so I have no regrets.

 

[Olive]

I regret Book of the Righteous. Perfectly good book, but my idea about alignment etc is at odds with they way they have put the book together, and it was really, really expensive. I keep meaning to sell the damn thing. I have in fact used D&Dg more than I've used BotR, for one god (Denarii) and some domains and... see below.

For those of you torqued about Deities and Demigods...

Check the link in the sig. It's an example of *my* take on how the gods should have been statted up.

KM's write ups are one of the reasons I've used D&Dg. The reason beign that salient divine abilities are a useful way to think about what gods can do, their aims and how they'd put those into practice and the legends about them.

Most other books I don't regret because they have seen at least a little use and generally cost half the price of BotR. But I'm really glad I bought MMS: WE, Magic of Faerun, BovD and FF. And the core rules of course. And my 200 or so DnD minis...

 

[RichGreen]

Here's my list of regrets:

Hero Builder's Guidebook (although the list of names is useful)
Sword & Fist
Deities & Demigods (no use for it)
AEG mini-adventures x3
Creature Collection 1
SL Gazeteer
Psionics Handbook (never used it, pretty dull reading)
Mindscapes (bought when Monte had a PDF sale)
Psionics Toolkit (so I could figure out what to do with the Psionics Handbook)
AU DM's Screen & Player's Guide
The Longest Night (not going to run a campaign, difficult to use as a stand-alone)
Siege on Ebonring Keep (terrible editing)
Aerial Adventure Guides 1 & 3 (bought cheap at a con, no use for these)


Stuff I'm really glad I bought:

Arcana Unearthed (some really interesting classes, races etc)
BoVD, BoED
Draconomicon
Fiend Folio
FRCS
Living Greyhawk Gazeteer
Manual of the Planes
Oriental Adventures
Nyambe
Dyasties & Demagogues (most of my Penumbra stuff is good)
All the Freeport stuff (ditto Green Ronin)
Skull & Bones
Magical Medieval Society Western Europe

I'm definitely a lot more picky these days!

Cheers


Richard

 

[Ashy]

Books of special meaning to me- Oath bound. Over the top adventure. Gotta like it.

*bows deeply* Why thank you! I wrote a good bit o' that adventure!

 

[Pseudonym]

You are correct. I am mistaken. I would have regretted purchasing Sword and Fist, but I never purchased,so I have no regrets.

I used the plans in the back for the border tower once, so I guess I only 90% regret buying Sword and Fist.

 

[Drow Jones]

Well this is going to be disappointingly long list. I'm a combination of a D&D/d20 -nut and a mad collector, which has made me buy many things on a whim. Oh well...

Books that I really regret buying:

Deities & Demigods -- I wanted rules on how to create stats for gods. I never found them.
WotC Splatbooks -- For all the reasons already mentioned.
Arms & Equipment Guide -- Uninspired. I will get some use out of it, but I was very disappointed.
Stronghold Builder's Guidebook -- I'll never need this one.
Hero Builder's Guidebook -- Why do I keep doing this to my wallet?
Psionics Handbook -- Nothing against psionics as such. The mechanics were quite unbalanced though. I hope the 3.5 update fixes this.

d20 Wheel of Time RPG -- Hate the setting. I was looking for interesting mechanics.
d20 Star Wars 1st ed. -- They should have gotten it right the first time. I guess they were training for 3.5.

Ravenloft d20 -- I don't know why I bought it. I didn't like the setting before, I don't like it now.

Divine & Defeated -- Horrible mechanics.

Ghelspad Gazetter
Hollowfaust
Mithril: City of Golem -- Scarred Lands wasn't my setting after all. However, the above products are ok for those who like SL.

Encyclopaedia Arcane - Battle Magic
Encyclopaedia Arcane - Necromancy -- Why Mongoose publishing cannot bother to learn the d20 rules?

Mythic Races -- I have gotten absolutely nothing useful out of this book yet. Maybe some day...

Books that I love:

3.5 core books -- Overall a great update with minor wrinkles here and there. I can iron them out.

FRCS
Magic of Faerun
Races of Faerun -- I like the Realms... well *my* Realms.

Relics & Rituals -- I love the ideas and the tone of the book. I can fix the mechanics with minimal effort.

Book of Eldritch Might I & II
Book of Divine Might -- I like Monte's stuff. Most of his spells and Prestige classes are great. The alignement variant in BoDM is very nice.

- DJ

 

[Gundark]

Arcana Unearthed: Got it to read something different, decided that degree of different wasn't for me. Can't remotely identify with anything in there.

I totally agree with this, I noticed this one in the store so I didn't buy it. I can't stand the people think everything that Monte Cook puts out must be good

 

[Gundark]

Books I have burned:
The Foundation

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What is this book, and why did you burn it?????