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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bran Blackbyrd" data-source="post: 1087265" data-attributes="member: 1710">So the impression I'm getting is that more than 50% of the posts are people saying that a particular book was fine, it just wasn't their cup of tea; and for that reason the book in question was "one of the worst"?Come on! For example; I don't own the Manual of the Planes because I do not yet have a use for it, but I'm not going to put it on a list of Worst WotC 3.0 books. In fact, a lot of people have said it was one of the best 3.0 books.I have no use for a bra but I'm not going to say it was one of the worst products ever made.This poll was broken from the beginning because it fails to list all of the WotC 3.0 products. Why Oriental Adventures makes the poll but Forgotten Realms products don't I do not know. Frankly, I think that books dealing primarily with settings  other than the default should have been left off to make room for other stuff.For InstancePrime example here: The Hero Builder's GuidebookIt's the book that immediately came to my mind when I read this poll, is it a choice on the poll? No. Is there at least a choice for "Other" on the poll? No.The fact that so many people have included it as a "write-in" choice should indicate something. This book is only useful to the most absolute rank beginner, or a DM that wants to show it to the most absolute rank beginners. And in the end, that kind of info is plentiful on the internet. This site alone probably holds most of it. A DM could easily compile that kind of thing and print it as a handout if they have a newbie in their group.Free random name generators and min-maxing guides should pretty much cover the information gained by buying the HBGB.In the end though, I'm not going to complain about the book too much, because; A: No one forced me to buy it, and B: I, in fact, did not buy it.I can understand some people get miffed at the idea that WotC spent time and resources developing something that they themselves didn't want, or wanted in theory but found in the end that the product didn't give them what they wanted. But I still say listing a book that is perfectly good other than the fact that you're not interested in it is...Lame? Rude? Well, it's something shady. I don't know.Save the ire for books like the HBGB that offer nothing in exchange for your money. For a few extra bucks you can have a hardback rule book.</blockquote>

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