What "non-main" book do you use the most?

[collin]

Xanathar's Guide to Everything

 

[77IM]

Xanathar's Guide to Everything, mostly because of the expanded Downtime activities. Honestly I am considering just photocopying that section and leaving the rest of the book at home.

 

[Swarmkeeper]

I’ve had several players take race options from Volo’s and one from MToF but Xanathar’s has provided the most fodder for our campaigns: subclasses, downtime, magic items, tool use, and, yes, even the widely denigrated list of names! It’s all gold, Jerry... gold!

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron, with Xanathar's Guide to Everything just behind it.

 

[Shiroiken]

XGtE is by far the most used non-core book by the players. As the DM, I'd probably say that currently I mostly use Tome of Beasts (3PP), because it has a lot more Fey creatures, and the party is currently dealing with a Fey Forest. The previous adventure I ran, the MM had everything I needed. In general, I imagine that most DMs will primarily use either an AP or the various monster books, because the DM stuff in XGtE isn't quite as useful as more monsters.

 

[guachi]

Like someone else said, my most used book is whatever adventure I'm playing. Could be from any edition. Right now I'm on part 2 of 2 in Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh.

 

[StormbringerAUS]

Xgte

 

[S'mon]

Besides the PHB, DM's guide and Monsters Manual, what book are you using the most?

I've found that in my experience, it is *by far* Xanathar's guide to everything. I consider it almost as important as the DMG!

I though that Volo's guide to monsters was well written and good, but I actually get a lot less use out of it. Even more so for Mordenkainen's Tome of foes.

Yup - Xanathar's gets by far the most use. I've only just bought Mordenkainen's. Volo's sees little use - players occasionally play the new races.

Xanathar's has highly useable PC paths/subclasses plus very nice encounter tables for the DM. Plus the common magic items & the downtime stuff. Really it's more useful than the DMG at table - rather than bring a DMG I can just bring an SRD printout of the magic items, or even just google them.

Next after XGTE would be a campaign specific hardback, like Princes of the Apocalypse for that game, Primeval Thule for those games, and Rise of the Runelords for my Runelords conversion game.

 

[MNblockhead]

Xanathar's by a wide margin.

 

[DQDesign]

Ravnica, but just because lately I'm supporting the setting issuing multiple products on dmsguild.