What RPG books/manuals do you really regret buying?
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Nightcloak
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Regrets...
Hero Builder's Guidebook
d20 was new, hot, and like most people I wanted everything d20. You would have thought I learned a leason from Magic. Nope.
When people ask me, I tell them the best use for this book is to cut out the last page with the names and put it in your notebook for emergencies.
Dungeonworld
Xmas bonus + bored in FLGS + rumors of this book being pulled for legal trouble = Bad purchase
Have never used it. There are some things worth canabalizing but the reality is I have several book shelves full of better material to get to first.
Live. Learn. Will probably do it again anyway.
Hero Builder's Guidebook
d20 was new, hot, and like most people I wanted everything d20. You would have thought I learned a leason from Magic. Nope.
When people ask me, I tell them the best use for this book is to cut out the last page with the names and put it in your notebook for emergencies.
Dungeonworld
Xmas bonus + bored in FLGS + rumors of this book being pulled for legal trouble = Bad purchase
Have never used it. There are some things worth canabalizing but the reality is I have several book shelves full of better material to get to first.
Live. Learn. Will probably do it again anyway.
Captain NeMo
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Sounds like some of you have really made some iffy choices. But, just to clarify, would the revised version of Creature Collection be worth a bit under the £5 (including P+P) which I paid? 
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Nightcloak
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DaveMage said:
That's a great view.
I have a number of poor quality books that don't actually bother me just because I waited and got a deal on them.
All hail ENWorld reviews!
Barendd Nobeard
Explorer
Deadlands d20. Bought it by mistake. 
Book of Vile Darkness. I expected a book about evil, with all its warnings about "mature content," to touch on, well, adult themes. How to make a villian really stand out as someone for the party to hate for years to come. How to incorporate slavery and assorted other themes into a campaign. The vast majority of the book seemed to focus on evil as blood and gore (especially gore), that the best way to demonstrate something is evil is to make it a gross-out, like the book's trying to be Fear Factor for D&D...very disappointing and almost entirely useless.
CC I and II- the only monsters I like out of them are the mere lurker, Legion of One and swamp tyrant.
GURPS Goblins- the description on the back made me think of a modern day game with "aliens" among us encouraging human social decay. Boy was I wrong.
GURPS High Tech- I wanted technology, not guns and bombs.
Sorcery and Steam- the only part I like was the intro (which is in Cityworks). The technology section sucks.
Cityworks- I was hoping for a lot more on fantasy cities.
Several short pdfs from Top Fashion on books. I was expecting a little more than titles and a sentance of the contents.
GURPS Atlantis- None of the given settings were what I was hoping for.
TOH 1 and 2- I had the first one for several months, but it just didn't inspire me like other monster books. The second I owned for a day or two.
Necropolis- wanted more setting. Fortunately I got GURPS Egypt and Haminaptera (however the hell it is spelled).
The Hunt:Rise of Evil- I like the supplements, but the world is just blah.
The Deep- read the reviews here to see why.
BoVD- AEG's Evil has a much better essay on the nature of evil.
Monster's Handbook- I bought this during the 5 bucks sale and now Beast Builder is so much better.
XXVc game- it is not Buck Rodgers, as much as they tried to make it.
As much as I love Alternity (it is by far my favorite system), I have to add a few from it:
Dataware- it just sucks. I wanted it for the robot rules and they are so skimpy.
The Lighthouse- I don't think I will ever use it for any setting. Like Dataware, it is under developed.
The Killing Jar- Great start that quickly desends into a meh advanture. Much too Cthulhuistic at the end for my tastes.
GURPS Goblins- the description on the back made me think of a modern day game with "aliens" among us encouraging human social decay. Boy was I wrong.
GURPS High Tech- I wanted technology, not guns and bombs.
Sorcery and Steam- the only part I like was the intro (which is in Cityworks). The technology section sucks.
Cityworks- I was hoping for a lot more on fantasy cities.
Several short pdfs from Top Fashion on books. I was expecting a little more than titles and a sentance of the contents.
GURPS Atlantis- None of the given settings were what I was hoping for.
TOH 1 and 2- I had the first one for several months, but it just didn't inspire me like other monster books. The second I owned for a day or two.
Necropolis- wanted more setting. Fortunately I got GURPS Egypt and Haminaptera (however the hell it is spelled).
The Hunt:Rise of Evil- I like the supplements, but the world is just blah.
The Deep- read the reviews here to see why.
BoVD- AEG's Evil has a much better essay on the nature of evil.
Monster's Handbook- I bought this during the 5 bucks sale and now Beast Builder is so much better.
XXVc game- it is not Buck Rodgers, as much as they tried to make it.
As much as I love Alternity (it is by far my favorite system), I have to add a few from it:
Dataware- it just sucks. I wanted it for the robot rules and they are so skimpy.
The Lighthouse- I don't think I will ever use it for any setting. Like Dataware, it is under developed.
The Killing Jar- Great start that quickly desends into a meh advanture. Much too Cthulhuistic at the end for my tastes.
Narfellus
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Creature Collection 1 wasn't the best book. I've never used it. Mother of All Encounter Tables i found to be UTTERLY boring. I think i had a different idea in my head of what it would be like. Dieties & Demigods. The art is fantastic, as per most WotC books. As for stats: i don't need nor want skill and feats for my Gods. They have them all at rank +100. Same for the Epic Level Handbook. Never used it and shouldn't have bought it.
Kanegrundar
Explorer
There's only been 1 D20 book that I've bought that I thought was a complete waste: Dragonlords of Melnibone. Even in the early days of D20, with my understanding of the rules not quite what it is now, I could tell this was completely fouled up. I sold it a week after I bought it.
Kane
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