Worst Value for Money RPG Purchase

[Thanee]

Worst purchase: The Psionics Handbook, of course.

Bye
Thanee

 

[PJ-Mason]

The Foundation.

 

[Enforcer]

The Psionics Handbook for me too. After the Expanded Psionics Handbook came out, the original is just plain useless.

 

[Thanee]

It was bad already even before it's not-much-better cousin came out. Now it just looks even worse.

Bye
Thanee

 

[EricNoah]

Hmm, some instantly regretted purchases:

Hamanuptra (Egyptian Adventures) -- not what I was expecting

with apologies to Wulf -- Grim Tales -- I read through it, and then just set it in my "to sell" pile. Could not see what the big deal was.

Black Company -- I don't even know why I bought it, I think I had heard some good stuff about the magic system, which turned out to be clunkier than expected -- and I don't know a thing about the novels.

 

[Kanegrundar]

Gamma World D20. Poor execution in every regard. I started off using bits and pieces, but thanks to RPGObjects, D20 Future, D20 Apocalypse, and a few other products, there's no reason for me to even look to that book. I was really looking foward to it...

 

[eris404]

My boyfriend bought The Rings of Power book - not well done at all.

But my personal most disappointing book was the Book of Challenges. Usually I can find uses for most things (I even found things to use in MMIV and that took some digging), but I really didn't like any of the encounters in it.

Now, if we're talking books that I actually like, but have yet to use, that's another story entirely.

 

[Keith Robinson]

Races of Stone and the Planar Handbook.

I bought these two together, so was seriously unhappy when I realised what a pile of poop they were (YMMV of course ). Up to that point I was a serial buyer of WotC books (D&D), but became a lot more picky after that. Now I only buy the things that interest me.

 

[Dragonbait]

WoTC made: Psionic Handbook.

Non-WoTC: I've got way too many RPG books that I will never use. So if I could classify anything not written for D&D, Warhammer, Palladium, GURPS, L5R, or Star Wars that I own (and that still leaves me with quite a few books), then I would say that was the biggest waste of money.

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[eris404]

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