I must admit, I'm not crazy about a lot of classic modules.  They were ok, and it saved time, but our homebrew adventures were more memorable.  

OTOH, Frank's work on the BECMI boxed sets, Basic in particular, is outstanding.  Probably my favorite (A)D&D item.  I honestly don't see why people play C&C, when these sets are readily available on eBay.

I quite liked the complete books. They had some interesting info in them. The complete necromancer is however the best of the lot... I just love the flavour text and the ideas it came up with... mmm unholy pacts... mmm evil...

I always found the complete "race" books useful. Nothing like a little read up on a race's history to really go rping mad...
And i'll always love reading about gnomes... they amuse me no end.

Monsterous mythology is useful... I always hated how 3E made gods so... vuage. "oh this is the god of death... um.. yeah".. no furthur info about how they were worshipped... nothing about their priesthood. even the new faiths and pantheons for that edition sucked. stats for gods avators but nothing actually useful. If i'm going to play a cleric I damn well want to know what he should believe and what sort of rituals and holidays he should observe. come on... doesn't take much to write some interesting info on a god. just take a look at ad&d's equivilant effort.

Bad products... well hmm... i've never really looked at the core edition stuff... i collect planescape. and of that... i'd have to say the guide to the outlands audio cd... oh dear... it's so cheesy and I really honestly can't see any practical use for it.

as for the binders.. they have one use and one use alone. Instead of having to lug a heavy hardback to a session, you simply take out the sheets you need for the session and take them along. Only problem is it's easier to lose or damage individual sheets. However, compaired to the awkward heaviness of the Monster manual, it's a risk i'd be willing to take... or... alternately... the soft cover compendiums. less weight, harder to lose than sheets, contain all you need.

We're starting a spell jammer game this sunday... i'll let you lot know how it goes... heh... <-< >-> I think we're all gonna die

This is fun!  Someone else mention something so we can all say it sucks!  

Mark  

   (I'm sure, somewhere, there's someone who thought that the Giant modules sucked and that the Descent modules bit and that Queen of the Demonweb Pits was a rancid snot hanky.   )

    I had believed that In Search of the Unknown was the first TSR module ever published...but now I hear that it was Steading of the Hill Giant Chieftain.  True?  (What a way to start!)

    And who came up with the word, "module?"

Mark Again  

Contrarian wrote:
While I'm here, I'm going to nominate TSR's AD&D minatures boxed sets as the worst product.  They're just horrible -- some of them don't even have real faces.  You're lucky if you get 3 usable figures in a box of 12.

    Yeh, what was up with those. Worst metal miniatures ever made, in the history of the world.  Most looked like little lumps of featureless metal. Some don't even have bases and can't stand up. I remember buying one box of these new and getting home and opening it and just shaking my head incredulously, thinking about what I could have done with the wasted money.  
   However, as crappy as the minis were, they came in a great box!  I still use a couple to this day for storage.

Mike B.

MShipley88 wrote:This is fun!  Someone else mention something so we can all say it sucks!  

Mark  

   (I'm sure, somewhere, there's someone who thought that the Giant modules sucked

Here!

Well, maybe not sucked, but definitely well below average, in my memory.

Room 1 - fight some giants, room 2 - fight some giants, room 3 - fight some giants, room 4 - unoccupied, room 5 - fight some giants...

The only thing I remember liking about them (read only, never played) was the orcish servants that I think were having a rebellion.

mordrin wrote:Well, maybe not sucked, but definitely well below average, in my memory.

Room 1 - fight some giants, room 2 - fight some giants, room 3 - fight some giants, room 4 - unoccupied, room 5 - fight some giants...

The only thing I remember liking about them (read only, never played) was the orcish servants that I think were having a rebellion.

tsk

no creativity at all. if you are in a giants steading, what did you expect to be there?

one of the times i DM'd it, i still put it down to one of the best playing sessions i have ever seen. the team were amazingly creative and managed to actually get through it with minimum fuss and commotion - exactly as its meant to be, but generally never is.

Al

bbarsh wrote:The Giant/Drow series was great - in its time. Back then, there were few other modules and nothing with an enduring campaign style adventure. That was AD&D. It was simpler (three hardcover books - that was it folks).

I like it to, we played it 4 or 5 times due to lack of our own creativity