What pre-3E D&D book are you using most in your 3.X game?

[Menexenus]

I have 2 pre-3E WotC products sitting on my gaming table at this very moment! They are two 2nd edition guides to Greyhawk printed around 1999/2000: "The Player's Guide to Greyhawk" and "Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins". I am using them both to help provide background for my Age of Worms campaign.

I use the "Player's Guide" for its comprehensive list of deities (with their alignments and portfolios) and for the well-done geopolitical map of the Flanaess (which is *far* superior to the one that came with the Greyhawk Gazetteer).

I use the "Adventure Begins" book mostly for its breakdown of the Greyhawk calendar and lunar cycles as well as its random weather tables.

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

Almost identical here, though I went back to 1e itself when I started up a new GH game.

Well, I used my 1E DMG with 3E, but I recently switched over to C&C.

 

[TarionzCousin]

Most-Used Pre-3E Books

1st Edition DMG is great for reference material: herbs, gems, gambling games, room furnishings, traps, etc. Whenever I am building a stronghold/dungeon, I keep it open.

Aurora's Whole Realms Catalog is great fun.

Forgotten Realms Adventures has some stuff in it that hasn't made it to 3/3.5 yet, especially towns and cities.

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

1st Edition DMG is great for reference material: herbs, gems, gambling games, room furnishings, traps, etc. Whenever I am building a stronghold/dungeon, I keep it open.

You should check out Gary Gygax's World Builder; it's like a 180 pg. expansion of that part of the 1E DMG.

 

[Teflon Billy]

GURPS Religion.

 

[TarionzCousin]

You should check out Gary Gygax's World Builder; it's like a 180 pg. expansion of that part of the 1E DMG.

Yeah, I've seen it. It's got lots of stuff, probably more than I need. I spent the $30 on other books, like AEG's Toolbox.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

 

[Staffan]

None at the moment. I'm running an Eberron campaign, so there aren't any pre-3e sourcebooks for that, plus I have most of my 2e stuff in storage.

If/when I get around to running a Forgotten Realms campaign (I think that after the Eberron campaign, I'll run Red Hand of Doom), I'll definitely be using the 2e god books. Imagine having information that's actually useful in a campaign rather than a one-page statblock for each god!

 

[Job]

Dungeon Magazine adventures
Dragon Magazine's Baba Yaga adventure from Roger Moore
Iuz the Evil
The Scarlet Brotherhood
Vecna Lives!

Oh, and $15 for NPC Designer to near-instantly convert to 3.5 stats for most of the encounters.

Job.

 

[Voadam]

Bits and pieces here and there.

2e Monstrous Manual out of the CD for monster descriptions is the most used.

Rest depend on specific campaigns

1e Manual of Planes, Planescape, Outlands, Planes of Law, Role Aids Dwarves, Outer Planes Monstrous Compendium Appendix, Book of Hell, 1e MM & MMII,

Dragonlance Adventures, Dragonlance anniversary supermodule, Dwarven Kingdoms of Krynn, Book of Lairs Dragonlance one, Under Illefarn,

FR 2e god books, that 1e FR Dwarven Halls book, Waterdeep, 2e Druid and dwarf complete books.

Ravenloft CS, Legends and Lore, Dancing Hut of Baba Yaga, House of Strahd,

others.

 

[JoeyD473]

Book of Artifacts
Complete Fighter's Handbook
Book of Elves
Van Richten's Guide to ___(Insert Name here)____ I got all of them