What would be very cool to buy?

[Arrgh! Mark!]

Next week I finish my last assignment for the semester. As usual, I plan to buy myself a present for managing to live through the horrors of education for so long.


What I'd like is some suggestions for RPG Books. What is very cool, very flavourful?

I'm one of these people that can seriously enjoy any setting, be it modern, past, future, or whacked. However, high-fantasy isn't my thing.

So, whats the cool book I should buy? (It doesn't need to be d20)

 

[MonsterMash]

Before making suggestions how about a few more details:
Budget - no point in recommending WLD if you've only got $40
Types of book: Setting, adventure, splatbook, monster book?
what you already have: not a full list, but an outline gives ideas on taste

Cheers
MM

 

[Maggan]

My recommendations

My latest purchase was The Old World Bestiary, for WFRPv2. So if you have WFRPv2, buy the bestiary. If you don't have WFRPv2, buy it.

Also take a look at Burning Wheel. I don't know anything about the game, apart from the fact that it comes in two paperback books. The format is cool, and almost enough to make me buy the game sight unseen.

For D&D, I'm waiting for a copy of Heroes of Battle, which I have hopes for. It seems cool.

So in order:

1. WFRPv2
2. The Old World Bestiary
3. Heroes of Battle

/M

 

[Jdvn1]

The Draconomicon is one of the best if not the best WotC book out there.

 

[Li Shenron]

What I'd like is some suggestions for RPG Books. What is very cool, very flavourful?

IMHO the top-coolness and top-flavour books are always the campaign setting sourcebooks.

If you like all kinds of settings, you can think about what genres you already have covered by your "personal library" and try getting something new.

For instance, I really like the Rokugan setting nowadays. If you don't have any oriental setting sourcebooks, why not picking up Oriental Adventures or Rokugan Campaign Setting? IMHO they are simply really cool and flavorful

 

[JustKim]

Find a used bookstore in your area and see what kind of treasures you can dig up for a fraction of the cost of books rehashing the same material today.

If you really need something new then I'll second Draconomicon.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Yep, sounds an awful lot like you want the Draconomicon.

 

[Desdichado]

Like settings, but don't want high fantasy, eh?

Delta Green for Call of Cthulhu is one of my favorite settings of all time. Better even than Dark•Matter. Unfortunately, the d20 version is still not out, although it supposedly will be by Gen Con was the last I heard. Still, the strength of the game is in the setting, not the mechanics, of which there aren't many anyway.

Of course, if you don't have the d20 Call of Cthulhu book, you absolutely should. That's my favorite RPG book bar none.

The relatively recent Iron Kingdoms setting might fit the bill as well; it's my favorite non-homebrew fantasy setting out there at the moment.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

Iron Kingdoms Character Guide and World Guide, the Monsternomicon, WFRP v2, and the Old World Bestiary are all astonishingly good.

 

[Romnipotent]

from most to least
Oathbound: Domains of the Forge
Kingdoms of Kalamar Realm guide+Players Guide
Gurps 4th Ed Campaigns and Characters

NON RPG
the complete Hitchhikers Series
Seasons 1 2 and 3 of Family Guy
Firefly box set