Which "must buy" gaming item did you buy, but never use?

[drothgery]

I've got an unused FRCS, Magic of Faerun, and Lord of Darkness, with Faiths and Pantheons on order. I may have to start a Dark Elf-free FR game just to use the stuff, but I really like WotC's FR gaming products. But I'm not DM'ing 3e right now (wrapping up a 2e game and running a d20 WoT game), so mining them for ideas is limited.

 

[Valicor]

Legions of Hell.

Sadly the PC's didn't make it to high enough levels, before the game ended.

 

[bushfire]

Sad to say but the Wotc Monster Manual never gets used.

I do use the SRD for the crunchy bits all the time but except for a very few monsters I have all the flavor text I need in my other MM books going back to 1E.

 

[Cyronax]

Psionics Handbook. Its been hard for me to have psions in my campaign world, because it seems like they overlap to much with my concept of the sorcerer.

C.I.D.

 

[Melan]

The original Temple of Elemental Evil. It helped me a lot designing my own adventures, though - so it was money well spent.

 

[kamosa]

Alternity: Own pretty much all of it, never got the game off the ground. I'm hoping to get one together once D20 Modern comes out, but I'm having way to much fun playing D&D right now.

Psionics Handbook: Cool ideas, poor implementation and I don't have the time to make it work.

Lots of adventures: I collect adventures but don't have the time to run them all and I like to write my own. So, I end up with lots of never run adventures sitting on the shelf, just waiting for the day I'll pick them up and run them.

Wizard Spell Compendiums: Bought them and then 3E came out. I didn't feel like adding them into the campaign until I got a good sense of how the spell balanced out. I might start adding some in fairly soon though.

Sovern Stone Codex Mysteria: I love the idea of how magic works, but my players are more interested in playing traditional 3E casters.

 

[Sodalis]

I think what you mean to say in your sig is:

give a man fire, keep him warm for the night
Set a man on fire, keep us all warm for the night....

 

[333 Dave]

Manual Of the Planes. Haven't run a planar campaign yet, and I'm not planning on it for a while.

 

[Privateer]

I think what you mean to say in your sig is:

give a man fire, keep him warm for the night
Set a man on fire, keep us all warm for the night....

Although that is kinda funny, the way it is written it means this: set a man on fire, and he will be VERY warm for the short amount of time left in his life.

BTW, isn't that from Discworld? Love those books.

[/threadhijacking]

Me? The creature compendiums. Great too look at, but a bit too dark for my DMing style. But I may use them yet... if, by chance, my players see this... Mwahahaha!

Nah. I bet I won't use it.

Edit: I'm bad at teh speeling.

 

[Trousers]

Manual of the Planes.... but only because my characters are knee-deep in an epic Prime Material Campaign.....

Give it time, and it will be used....