cybertalus
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2nd Edition AD&D Player's Handbook. Paid probably $20 and got literally thousands of hours of use out of it.
Dice and dicebags would probably be next. I still, but don't use, the first set of dice I had (they were of the "ink it yourself" variety), but I do still have and use my second set- black Chessex inked white, which I've upgraded over the years as the new d10s and d4s came along. My original dicebag is also still in use, although it's now a backup when I only want to take three or four sets of dice with me.
I'm sure a bunch of 2nd Edition books and some 1st and 2nd Edition Forgotten Realms stuff would place next, just because I had more free time and more opportunities to game back then.
In the 3rd Edition era, the 3.0 and 3.5 Player's Handbooks are probably neck-in-neck. Even though the 3.0 book has obviously been out longer, the 3.0 games I was in met sporadically, whereas the 3.5 game I was in met weekly. If I get back into a regular 3.5 game then by the end of the year I'll definitely have used 3.5 more than 3.0.
After that the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting. I don't get to play FR nearly enough, but I seem to have the FRCS out constantly looking stuff up or just reading for fun.
After the FRCS, it gets easier to list things I haven't gotten much use out of than things I have.
Dice and dicebags would probably be next. I still, but don't use, the first set of dice I had (they were of the "ink it yourself" variety), but I do still have and use my second set- black Chessex inked white, which I've upgraded over the years as the new d10s and d4s came along. My original dicebag is also still in use, although it's now a backup when I only want to take three or four sets of dice with me.
I'm sure a bunch of 2nd Edition books and some 1st and 2nd Edition Forgotten Realms stuff would place next, just because I had more free time and more opportunities to game back then.
In the 3rd Edition era, the 3.0 and 3.5 Player's Handbooks are probably neck-in-neck. Even though the 3.0 book has obviously been out longer, the 3.0 games I was in met sporadically, whereas the 3.5 game I was in met weekly. If I get back into a regular 3.5 game then by the end of the year I'll definitely have used 3.5 more than 3.0.
After that the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting. I don't get to play FR nearly enough, but I seem to have the FRCS out constantly looking stuff up or just reading for fun.
After the FRCS, it gets easier to list things I haven't gotten much use out of than things I have.
. At first look, I thought the shop owner wanted to get rid of something that nobody wanted (which was probably right 
), because the production values looked particularly shoddy. When I read a little bit further, I found it to be one of the best source for NPC's I've stumbled upon up to now 
.
