Your most surprising purchase?

[Psion]

Gamma World DMG. The book is all about running games, not stuffed full of NPC charts and wacky rule changes. Like the Scarred Lands books from Sword and Sorcery its packed full of ideas and concepts... in other words flufftastic. It was canned by Gamma World gamers because they were expecting crunch and it the book was light (as in missing) that.

Really? I've only ever heard good things about it, from those who even bought it because they were so put off by the first book...

 

[Varianor Abroad]

Second Hammer and Helm. Lots of good stuff in that book.

 

[painandgreed]

Savage Species - Picked it up as a curiosity and it was instrumental to getting my DM to switch to 3.5E from 1E. Now we have a monster game going and have used it constantly for many months.

 

[JoeBlank]

Oathbound, the main book and everything else for the setting.

Picked it up around Christmas thanks to Bastion's $5 sale, mostly on a whim, and it sparks my imagination more than any D&D book has in years.

 

[Storyteller01]

Traps & Treachery

Don't stone me please!

I normally stay away from fancy traps but after buying this I found many favorites that are far from the standard traps.

Mythic Races is also looking to get a lot of use soon

The PrC's and info on guilds isn't bad either.

 

[Shemeska]

Relics and Rituals I and II. I didn't expect much when I bought them, but even though I've never used much directly out of them, they both had some seriously cool ideas that I've played with from time to time.

Frostburn: I bought this on a lark. It was very very well written and had some nifty ideas. I felt dumb for not realizing this ahead of time once I noticed that Wolfgang Baur wrote it

 

[Arrgh! Mark!]

A little known thing called Shattered Peace, basically a guide to how a vaguely interesting standard RPG city would work under stress.

I thought City State was quite interesting, but didn't have exactly what I thought it would have.


Paranoia XP. Like you wouldn't believe.

 

[Nifft]

he was aiming too high. i think he just wanted to warm your cockles

IYKWIMAITYD

hong is not dead, children. A little sliver of hong lives on in each of us.

-- N "he died for your snarks"

 

[CRGreathouse]

My most suprising purchase came highly recommended, but just didn't live up to the hype... or even my basic expectations.
http://www.enworld.org/reviews.php?do=review&reviewid=2011572

Traps & Treachery

Don't stone me please!

Don't worry. While everyone is stoning me you should be able to slip away.

 

[Teflon Billy]

Heroes of High Favor: Dwarves from Bad Axe.

Also Alchemy and Herbalists from Bastion.