Your Favorite RPG Supplement, for any Game, Period

[tahsin]

Gonna have to be:

Van Richten's Guides to the Lich, Mummy, and Vampire in 2nd Edition D&D

For 3rd edition:

The d20 Modern Supplements from The Game Mechanics, published by Green Ronin

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Delta Green - Call of Cthulhu. Enough material for several good years of play.

The Auld Grump, a group willing to carpet bomb Tcho Tcho villages during the Vietnam War, as scary in their own way as the cultists....

 

[JohnSnow]

I'm arbitrarily deciding that Core Rulebooks and the like don't count...

Which means that as much as I regularly use Iron Heroes, Mastering Iron Heroes, d20 Modern and the 3.5 PHB, DMG, and MM, they're not in the running here.

That being the case, it's still hard to narrow it down to ONE supplement. My short list is pretty short though:

• Deities and Demigods (1e)
• The Wilderness Survival Guide and Dungeoneer's Survival Guide (1e)
• The World Builder's Guidebook (my favorite 2e supplement, bar none)
• The Complete Book of Dwarves (2e but it's never been done as well)
• Unearthed Arcana (3e)
• Dungeon Master's Guide II (3e)
• Midnight 2nd Edition
• Kingdoms of Kalamar Campaign Setting Book
• Eberron Campaign Setting Book

 

[Angel Tarragon]

That would be:

 

[Thotas]

Earlier someone mentioned DC Heroes Magic Supplement! Wow, thought I was the only one. Love that book for that game, and I really hope that if Steve Kenson ever gets around to a Mutants & Masterminds add-on dealing with mystical subjects only he will rip that book off left and right. DCH Magic is the best supplement ever produced, I've said it for years.

And maybe it's my love of the dwarves and never liking how they got shafted in 1e and 2e, but one of my other faves that I didn't see anyone mention yet is GR's "Hammer and Helm".

 

[Akrasia]

The Court of Ardor (MERP; ICE)

I am not alone! I'm often surprised at how few people know about this real gem.

Arnor: Land of the Witch King (MERP; ICE)

Heh, I assume you mean 'Angmar' not 'Arnor'!

It was a great book -- at least the later version expanded by Graham Staplehurst (iirc) was. The original version was rather light on information.

 

[Odhanan]

Now, I can proudly confirm it: Ptolus: Monte Cook's City by the Spire is one of the best RPG supplements, all games considered, I've ever seen. Hands down.

 

[schroederlance]

Dark*Matter campaign setting for the Alternity game.

Seconded! An almost perfect book in my opinion!

 

[Torillan]

2. The original Thieves' World box set for Chaosium. The best fantasy city ever. A place I WANTED to run adventures in and play in. To this day gives me the warm fuzzies in a way so few books ever have.
Chuck

For the title of "Best Fantasy City Ever", I'm gonna have to disagree with you.

That title goes only to "Marienburg: Sold Down the River" for WRFP1e by Hogshead. I can still read it cover-to-cover over and over!

 

[Aus_Snow]

CoC d20 would be a contender. I actually prefer it to the BRP versions.