Worst Value for Money RPG Purchase

[Bobitron]

Probably OGL Ancients. The systems are just terrible. They tried to make combat more 'realistic' by including some rules for armor that was incredibly clunky. If I recall correctly:

The attack makes his roll. The defender makes an opposed defense roll with his shield. If it gets through, the defender makes a defense roll to see if he can dodge the blow. If that hits, the defender makes a defense roll to see if he can twist to put his armor in the way of the blow.

One attack roll, three defense rolls. ???

I have shelves and shelves of books I don't use, but only that particular book has drawn my ire. Unreasonable? Probably.

 

[demiurge1138]

I'm horrified to see the Fiend Folio listed twice.

For me, it's Lords of Madness. I've used a couple of maps, but that's it. And I could've got those off WotC's site for free.

And I'm horrified to see you mention Lords of Madness It's easily my favorite of the Creature Focus series. But hey, one man's trash is another man's treasure...

Demiurge out.

 

[Shade]

And I'm horrified to see you mention Lords of Madness It's easily my favorite of the Creature Focus series. But hey, one man's trash is another man's treasure...

Demiurge out.

Oh dear dark gods....what a horrid typo! I meant Lords of Darkness....I consider Lords of Madness one of the top 5 books released in this edition. I'm going back to edit my earlier post...and pray the Old Ones didn't notice.

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

ieek. I am suprised to see [Hamanuptra and Black Company] listed in this thread.

Yeah, me too. I thought Black Company, in particular, was well done. (Of course, I'm a big fan of the books.)

 

[demiurge1138]

Oh dear dark gods....what a horrid typo! I meant Lords of Darkness....I consider Lords of Madness one of the top 5 books released in this edition. I'm going back to edit my earlier post...and pray the Old Ones didn't notice.

There we go, that makes sense... although I have to say I liked Lords of Darkness too. Never used much of it mechanically, but it was a good read.

Demiurge out.

 

[Shade]

There we go, that makes sense... although I have to say I liked Lords of Darkness too. Never used much of it mechanically, but it was a good read.

I don't dislike LoD, I just find it has been gathering dust on my shelf for a long, long time.

 

[DaveMage]

I'll go out on a limb here and predict in a few months or a year someone will cast Raise Thread on this discussion and list Ptolus as their worst value for money.

The high price point may certainly be an issue with some, but having flipped through it this evening, my thought is, if you can't get a lot out of Ptolus, you really aren't trying.

 

[Dark Psion]

Gamma World D20

I forgot about that one, or at least I have been trying to forget.

If the plan was to take all the fun out of the game, good job!

 

[cybertalus]

The high price point may certainly be an issue with some, but having flipped through it this evening, my thought is, if you can't get a lot out of Ptolus, you really aren't trying.

I haven't seen it, and certainly wasn't aiming to slam it. Just commenting on the general pattern that today's "coolest thing ever" is often next year's "why did I buy that?"

 

[arwink]

An Indie RPG called Starchildren. I picked it up because I loved the concept, but the mechanical side of things dropped the ball and set-up the wrong mood for the game.

While I've got many other games that suffer from similar flaws and struggled with them for a time, I was just a little to wary of the dissonance between setting and rules by the time I paid for the book.