Your Most Useful and Most Used RPG Products

[SlyFlourish]

I'm thinking about the RPG products I find myself coming back to time and time again as a gift guide for others.

What RPG products do you find yourself using year after year? Which products provide the biggest impact at your table?

Here's my list:

• Pathfinder Flip Mat Basic and Staedtler Lumovision medium black 315-9 wet-erase markers
• Midgard World Book
• Demon Cults and Secret Societies
• Level Up Advanced 5e's Trials and Treasure and Monstrous Menagerie
• Shadowdark Quickstart Rules

 

[timbannock]

Knave 2nd Edition and Errant for old-school procedures, processes, and generators.

Role 4 Initiative's dungeon tiles.

Forged Dice Co Arena dice rolling tray.

Savage Worlds Customizable GM Screen, though once mine falls apart, I'll probably go for the DriveThruRPG landscape GM screen because it's 4 panels rather than the SW's 3 panels.

Pathfinder/Starfinder/ArcKnight pawns.

AEG Ultimate Toolbox.

Science Fiction Codex of Lists and Science Fiction Codex of Lists 2.

 

[The Soloist]

The random encounter terrain travel tables from Barbarian Prince have been with me since 1981. Each result comes with a descriptive entry in the adventure booklet. I've used it often as a basis for many random encounters.

 

[Reynard]

When I play in person, I use TacTiles as my primary grid system and they are awesome. You can pry them from my cold... etc etc

I also make use of poker chips in almost every game: luck tokens, bennies, inspiration, force points, whatever.

 

[dbm]

Loke map books of various kinds. If you want to keep the investment low go for one of their books of varied maps, or if you are happy to spend a little more buy some of the mix-and-match double book sets.

 

[thullgrim]

• Chessex 6ft dry erase battle mat for in person games. I take baby wipes with me.
• Poker chips.
• MS OneNote
• A good pdf reader

 

[timbannock]

Loke map books of various kinds. If you want to keep the investment low go for one of their books of varied maps, or if you are happy to spend a little more buy some of the mix-and-match double book sets.

I want these so bad but I just don't have the room.

Is it bad that my goal of "buy a house" is really "...to hold all my gaming stuff"?

 

[aco175]

We play with these tiles a lot of the time


These minis from 3e days have been around for years at our table.

I would say though, the most used thing at the table is the Kings Road- the most dangerous stretch of land in the kingdom.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The Game Master's Fantasy Toolkit from Roll & Play, which is sort of a DM's safety net.

A dice tray that lays flat when not in use (I have mine tucked between my core books) and has magnets on the corner to form a tray when needed.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Knave 2nd Edition and Errant for old-school procedures, processes, and generators.

I would love to see a list of all these books have to offer at some point. I've heard that Errant is stuffed full of procedures, but not what that entails.