What's the best you've ever gotten for your buck in gaming products?

[JoeGKushner]

• Players Handbook
• Monster Manual
• Dungeon Master's Guide
• Slavelords of Cydonia (Currently Running)
• Black Company (Using this for Slavelords Engine)
• Tact-Tiles (Every session I GM)
• Crystal Caste Dice (among others like Chessex, Gamescience)
• Dragon on CD (great articles for all games)
• Flavor of the Month (whatever new thing we enjoy at the time until it's replaced)

 

[CarlZog]

Dave Hargrave's Arduin Grimoire.

Brilliant stuff that I got decades of use from.

 

[Arnwyn]

My "good value" books (past and present):

Past:
- 2e PHB
Present:
- 2e MCs (all 14+ of them) - still used, as they include all my 3e conversions
- 2e FR box
- battlemat
- DM screen(s)
- 2e Forgotten Realms Adventures
- 3.x PHB
- 3.5 MM
- Tome of Horrors

Everything else is used haphazardly, and depends where the PCs are and what they're doing.

 

[ARandomGod]

2 recent purchases have made me almost willing to shelve most of my d20 product.
Tact-Tiles
Arcana Unearthed(yeah I know I'm a little late on that one)

Definitely Tact-Tiles. Better than any gaming mat or any other accessory of that type I've ever seen or owned.

Other than that I'd say some of the Hackmaster Modules (Little Keep on the Borderland), and hackmaster itself...

3.5 I go with Kingdoms of Kalamar stuff for actual 'purchases'.

Since I hyped tact-tiles up and some people might not know what they are, here's a link to them:
http://www.bc-products.net/Index.html
(I'm not affiliated in any way. I just bought some and liked 'em, by the way)

Edit:
Sure, EnWorld and the SRD too! I use those more than anything else!!

 

[Virel]

Without question my OAD&D PHB, DMG, MM & DDG's. My orginal copies were purchanced in 1980 and used until late 1995, then again in Aug of 2004 until present. My OAD&D players make fun of the beat up PHB with it's yellowed pages and faded color. If I need to get inspired for playing in the 3e group, I'm a member of I go back and review the OAD&D books not the new 3e ones.

Best deal $30 for a set of near perfect condition a set of perfect condition core 3e (PHB, DMG, MM) books back in mid 2004.

 

[loki44]

City State of the Invincible Overlord - has held up and been useful for the past 25 years

 

[hrafnagud]

After nearly 20 years of gaming, and literally hundreds of purchased books (as my groaning bookshelves can attest), I'd have to say there have been very few products that earned their keep over the years. But a few spring to mind...

Unearthed Arcana (1E): This book inspired me to expand the scope of my AD&D game far beyond the material printed within. I suppose it might have been any book, but after UA I was permanently hooked on gaming.

RoleMaster (1E): Just when AD&D was starting to feel a bit juvenile, RM came to the rescue. Thanks to RM I was able to squeak out another 10 years of enjoyment. My group did a lot of gaming with those RM books. There was a ton of crap printed for RM, and I bought it all, but Character & Campaign Law, Arms Law, and Spell Law were worth their weight in eog.

HârnMaster Gold: It would be premature to say I'm done buying RPGs, but it sure looks that way. After picking up N. Robin Crossby's HârnMaster Gold pdfs (Players' Edition, GM Edition, Beastiary, and Shék-Pvâr), I can't see ever needing another gaming book. These books do everything, or at least tell me how. If I get the use out of them I expect, they will be my single greatest purchase.

 

[johnsemlak]

HârnMaster Gold: It would be premature to say I'm done buying RPGs, but it sure looks that way. After picking up N. Robin Crossby's HârnMaster Gold pdfs (Players' Edition, GM Edition, Beastiary, and Shék-Pvâr), I can't see ever needing another gaming book. These books do everything, or at least tell me how. If I get the use out of them I expect, they will be my single greatest purchase.

Where are these available?

 

[hrafnagud]

Where are these available?

www.kelestia.com

The page isn't exactly intuitive. Crossby is clearly a game designer, not a web designer.

For a more direct link, http://www.kelestia.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=listarticles&secid=1

 

[rogueattorney]

-Moldvay edit Basic D&D boxed set.
-Cook edit Expert D&D boxed set.

With B2 and X1 included in each, I've literally gotten thousands of hours of gaming out of the contents of those two boxes alone over the past ~25 years.

Yes. Best bang for gaming buck of all time.

Runners up in no particular order...

D&D Rules Cylclopedia
1e DMG
Dragon CD Rom Archive

R.A.