Conversations with the 8yo DM:
8yo DM: What’s your favorite hardback DnD book from any edition?
Me: 3e Epic Level Handbook. It added years to your mama’s campaign.
8yo DM: Ask the Bluesky people.
What is your favorite hardback DnD book of any edition?
8yo DM: What’s your favorite hardback DnD book from any edition?
Me: 3e Epic Level Handbook. It added years to your mama’s campaign.
8yo DM: Ask the Bluesky people.
What is your favorite hardback DnD book of any edition?
Comments
The Lady of Pain
Sigil
The factions
introducing Teiflings
Easy (ish) way of getting to the various planes
That and Spelljammer (for its many faults) was like 90% of what i used back then heh
*I say "lost" but wouldnt be surprised if it got...borrowed
Monster book: (3.5e) Monster Manual V
Setting: (5e 3rd-party) Humblewood
Adventure: (5e) The Wild Beyond the Witchlight (also favorite D&D book overall)
But my answer is actually the 3e expanded psionics handbook or manual of the planes. They certainly captured my imagination more than high school did.
For D&D, my favourite was probably the 1E AD&D DMG.
Not that it was good, it wasn't, and not that it was balanced or unbiased or unmisogynist or unracist, because it wasn't.
But it was chock full of random tables and sets and it got me thinking in many, many new ways.
The Pathfinder 1e Mythic Adventures offers a different way to add mythic adventures to D&D, which is also very cool.
Still the best one IMHO
1st Ed Deities&Demigods, Fiend Folio, and Dragonlance Adventures were all cool in their own ways as well.
Forty-six years on, and I still reference it for ideas.
All info, one book.
The Demiplane of Dread holds a special place in my heart, and White Wolf did an amazing job.
I still look at it for inspiration and ideas!
Endless ideas and inspiration for lore, legendary objects, and so many hours of casual reading.
A lot of people rave about the 4e DMG but a lot of those ideas appeared in the 3.5 DMG II first