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2014-12-18, 09:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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What's the one book you wish you HADN'T bought?
There's been a number of "which books are good" threads lately, so I thought I'd try something different. What's the one 3.X or Pathfinder book that you have a physical copy of, but that you really wish you hadn't purchased? This includes books received as gifts, because we're allowed to wish that the gifter had spent their money on something else.
For me, it's a 3.0 Psionics Handbook. I got it well after the XPH was out (and, I think, even after 4e was released), but I thought that I'd need the (non-expanded) Psionics Handbook before buying the Expanded Psionics Handbook, because if it has "Expanded" in its title it's clearly an add-on.Last edited by Extra Anchovies; 2014-12-18 at 09:06 PM.
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2014-12-18, 09:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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I actually like my all books to varying degrees. Complete Psionics does anger me sometimes with its strange decisions and bad editing. I mostly regret not having more books, although I admit managing to get my hands on the 3.0 Players Guide to Faerun was a bit disappointing, since it was long after the 3.5 one had come out, but before I found out that it had some out.
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2014-12-18, 10:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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The book that I consider my most interesting purchase, and SOMETIMES wish I never bought: Book of erotic fantasy
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2014-12-18, 10:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-12-18, 10:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Don't buy anything from Avalanche Press.
Just don't.
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2014-12-18, 11:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-12-18, 11:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-12-18, 11:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Oh god definitely the Big Book Of Prolapsed Rectums, it's terrible.
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2014-12-19, 12:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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Tome of Battle.
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2014-12-19, 12:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-12-19, 12:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-12-19, 12:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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It was like staring the devil in the eye for a thousand pages.
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2014-12-19, 12:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-12-19, 12:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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I was thinking something similar, more along the lines of "if you bought it retail it was a decent investment".
I'm perfectly happy with everything I bought retail. I did have a bunch of books I bought in a lot from a friend which included enough blah books that made the lot barely worth the discounted rate I bought them at like a third party hell book, Ghostwalk and 3.0 PHB and DMG.
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2014-12-19, 12:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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3X Psionic books just yuck, such a waste of time and space to make an ''alternative magic system for no reason''.
I'd say Tome of Battle, but I never bought that horrible book. I did ''own'' one for a minute or so....but it's ashes now.
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2014-12-19, 01:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Monster Manual II. That book was just... just awful.
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2014-12-19, 01:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-12-19, 01:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-12-19, 02:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What's the one book you wish you HADN'T bought?
Probably Unearthed Arcana, given that most of it's available online, for free. Means it's money I could have spent on another book.
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2014-12-19, 02:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What's the one book you wish you HADN'T bought?
Complete Psionics. Considering that it is the only hardback 3.0/3.5 book that I returned to the store.
My current copy was actually a gift from a friend who used to own a bookstore and was otherwise going to be trashed because of damage.
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Rules Compendium is also in contention. Complete Scoundrel maybe as well.
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2014-12-19, 05:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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None. Knowledge is power.
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2014-12-19, 07:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What's the one book you wish you HADN'T bought?
Ultimate Combat.
Nobody in our group really liked it except the group's un-optimizer/kenny, and by the time the campaign ended and we got to make new characters using it, enough of it was on the PF SRD that nobody noticed when I stopped bringing it.
It isn't really a bad book, but I was expecting more of it than it had to give.My Homebrew A Return to Exile, a homebrew campaign setting.
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2014-12-19, 08:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What's the one book you wish you HADN'T bought?
Anger of Angels, as much as I loathe pretty much all of the author's work, I could get past all of that for a book giving me a stated out heirarchy of angelic evil bane smiting war machines. (which is what the fluff was) As I should have known, pretty much every part of the book was a mess, ranging from laughably over or under CR'd stats and LA to horribly weak and unusable prc's. Even the fluff didn't seem in any way logical.
Oddly enough I don't regret buying obscure campaign setting books that I rarely touch.
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2014-12-19, 08:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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For me it's the 3.0 psionics books, but I did get lucky - I saw my friend's copy of the Dungeon Survival Guide before I bought one.
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2014-12-19, 08:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-12-19, 10:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-12-19, 10:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Que tous les anciens dieux et les nouveaux protègent la France.
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2014-12-19, 10:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-12-19, 10:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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BoEF...don't ask...
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2014-12-19, 11:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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To the folks asking "why ToB" - you're not ever going to get every D&D player, even fans, to sign off on that book - you're just not. Trying is a waste of time. And I say that as someone who is 85% in favor of ToB. (With the unofficial errata, I'm 90%, and with Path of War instead I'm 95%.)
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