Worst D&D products ever.

[GeorgeFields]

I have to agree with many on a few of these, but one I haven't seen listed are the Player's Screens. Other include

Complete Elves
Complete Priest
Complete Ninja
Almost everything from Fast Forward Entertainment
Tale of the Comet
Dancing Hut of Baba Yaga - one encounter had a door that led to the intestines of the character that opened it! Anyone entering....well...

I'm sure others exist, but I'm drawing a blank at the moment. :\

 

[Paradigm]

Am I the only one who liked the Hero Builder's Guide? True, there was nothing ground-breaking, but it was a fun read. I enjoyed it.

But what is up with that outfit the guy on the cover is wearing? He looks like a guy in drag who had his cocktail dress ripped half off.

The Hero Builder's Guide is unfairly judged (IMO). It is not for experienced gamers, it is a helper for new roleplayers. Keeping that in mind, it succeeded nicely. D&D can't just sell to the extant base, it needs to sell to newbies also.

 

[Paradigm]

The worst product from D&D I ever wasted my money on was Undermountain.

"Congratz! You just spent a ton of cash on a gigantic empty dungeon!"

 

[Dire Serpent]

Worst D&D Product Ever?

E. Gary Gygax. Responsible for Castle Greyhawk, Unearthed Arcana, and Tomb of Horrors (which justifies the DM acting like an egotistical jerk - pretty much EGG's modus operandi).

Oh, and he's responsible for the stinking pile that was (and remains) the godawful and godforsaken D&D cartoon...

 

[Krieg]

.../snip/... Tomb of Horrors (which justifies the DM acting like an egotistical jerk - pretty much EGG's modus operandi.).../snip/...

Isn't it funny how comments like this one only come from folks who have never actually sat at a gaming table with Gary?

 

[DMScott]

Wilderness Survival Guide

Hmm, lots of people seem to hate this. I still have mine, and use it a decent amount. Ah well, one DM's trash...

My nomination for worst product was Dwarves' Deep, 2E FR product. It revealed that the great secret of the Dwarves was that they were having fertility troubles, so they were secretly kidnapping and raping human women in an effort to continue the race. Uh, yeah, and they're still Lawful Good? OK...

Now it just seems ridiculous. As I recall, at the time I was pretty offended, and that was the product that kept me from buying TSR stuff for many years afterwards - until well after WOTC bought them out, as I recall.

 

[Krieg]

It revealed that the great secret of the Dwarves was that they were having fertility troubles, so they were secretly kidnapping and raping human women in an effort to continue the race.

Hmm, I don't remember that from the book.Time for me to break it out and take another look!

 

[haiiro]

My nomination for worst product was Dwarves' Deep, 2E FR product. It revealed that the great secret of the Dwarves was that they were having fertility troubles, so they were secretly kidnapping and raping human women in an effort to continue the race. Uh, yeah, and they're still Lawful Good? OK...

Like Krieg, I don't remember the kidnapping bit either. I do remember the stuff about dwarves having fertility problems, which I thought was actually a fairly neat take on the race.

Heck, Dwarves Deep was one of my favorite 2e products. Wish I still had it. :\

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

I've thought of a worthy worst the map folio I. how about we put out a product we're already offering for free on our website and let's make sure we don't have any kind of grid to make it completely useless. :\ however to be fair this was priced cheap but it taught me to read reveiws before I impulse buy.

Guess what? Map Folio II is worse.

I bought it hoping it would be better (since the map set represented one coherent city, not a few completely different locations).

Wow, was I wrong. I haven't been this disappointed in a product in a long time.

 

[Pants]

Actually, I though the Fires of Dis was a decent module.

Most of the module is not bad... good even, with some good roleplaying encounters. But the intro.. yea gods the intro is terrible. It basically amounts to 'the PC's can't stop the fiends - at all - no matter what they do and get bullied into the plot, no matter what they do.' Ugh.