What to get in d20's last gasp?

[Greg K]

My current list of essentials would be the following:

Adamant
- d20 Fantasy Occupations
- Hot Pursuit
- Hot Pursuit: On Foot

EN Publishing
- Advanced Rules for Beginners
- Elements of Magic: Revised
- Elements of Magic: Lyceian Arcana
- Elements of Magic: Mythic Earth

Expeditious Retreat
- Magical Medieval Soceity: Western Europe

Fantasy Flight Games
- Seafarer's Handbook

Green Ronin
- Advanced Bestiary
- Book of Fiends
- Cavalier's Handbook
- Psychic's Handbook
- Shaman's Handbook
- Witch's Handbook
- Eternal Rome
- Medieval Player's Manual

Human Head
- Rehurst Academy

Lion's Den
- Iconic Bestiary volume 1

Malhavoc
- Beyond Countless Doorways
- Book of Iron Might
- Book of Roguish Luck

Mongoose
- Quintessential Monk

Monkey God/Highmoon Media
- From Stone to Steel

Mystic Eye Games
- Artificer's Handbook

Necromancer
- Tome of Horrors

Sean K Reynolds
- New Argonauts

Skirmisher
- Experts 3.5

Silverthorne
- Book of Templates, Deluxe (Print version published by Goodman Games)

Sword and Sorcery
- Relics and Rituals


For d20Modern (In case anyone is looking d20Modern products)
Adamant
- Foe Facory: Modern
- Hot Pursuit
- Hot Pursuit: On Foot
- Thrilling Tales: Omnibus
(Note: I did not include Terminal Identiy or Imperial Age since I have not seen them)

EN Publishing:
- Elements of Magic: Mythic Earth

Dog House
- Sidewinder: Recoiled (the print version is published by Green Ronin)

Green Ronin
- Psychic's Handbook

RPGObjects:
- Blood and Fists
- Blood and Fists: Hong Kong Knights
- Blood and Blades
- Modern High
(I would include more from RPGObjects, but the above are the only books I actually currently own)

The Game Mechanics
- Modern Player's Companion (the print version is published by Green Ronin)

Wingnut
- Solid! The Blaxploitation Experience

 

[Greg K]

Don't be surprised if we start seeing most of the disappearing products released to PDF sans D20 logo.

True. However, we are losing some great products like Hot Pursuit, Hot Pursuit: On Foot and other products in Adamant's Master Kit line.

 

[Drowbane]

Expanded Psionics Handbook
Tome of Battle: Book of Nine Swords

 

[Greg K]

Aus,

Wow, we have a lot of the same books. I really wish I owned the Atlas books and Torn Asunder so that I could include them, but they are on my list of 3pp to still buy (and are among the products that I had in mind when I wrote my list might still grow)

 

[daddystabz]

BESM d20 (good luck)

Midnight 2e

Dawnforge

 

[freyar]

Thanks everyone! I'll have to see if I picked up Hot Pursuit during the Adamant $1 sale earlier (just can't keep track of all those PDFs). Anyway, this is giving me good ideas. Care to keep them coming?

 

[Varianor Abroad]

Dragonstar - great ideas.
Airships, by Sam Witt, from Bastion Press. Solely for the color illustrations.
Eldritch Sorcery, from Necromancer Games
Beyond Countless Doorways and Arcana Evolved, from Malhavoc Press
Hamunuptra: Egyptian Adventures
Poisoncraft, from Blue Devil Games

You can sign up for new, quality 3.5 material from Wolfgang Baur and Open Design LLC. (He's the editor in chief of the wonderful Kobold Quarterly magazine by the way.)

(Not to threadjack, but there is new, officially licensed Arcana Evolved material being published by Rite Publishing. Jade Oath is forthcoming. I know, I'm the editor. It does appear as if Fiery Dragon put the kibosh on two small AE pdf lines they acquired from Blue Devil. Ah well.)

 

[Mark]

Poisoncraft, from Blue Devil Games

This is one of those books that makes me want to expand my top ten list.

 

[Greg K]

Poisoncraft, from Blue Devil Games

Does a print edition exist? I thought so, but I have had no luck trying to track this down on ebay.

 

[knightofround]

Book of Templates by goodman games is awesome. It's the best way I've found to stat up monsters for 3.X D&D.

If you're looking for adventure paths, I would like to pump the Drow Saga by Mongoose publishing. It's a level 1-30 3.Xadventure path split up into 3 mega-adventures, and it has fantastic cut-n-paste capabilities. And if you run it straight though, it has a wonderful storytelling model where the success/failures/missed opportunities of the PCs have a mechanical impact upon national and worldwide events.