Traveller wrote:We BOTH missed the boat.FLUMPH!'Nuff said.
jasonw1239 wrote:My vote would be the 1978 Chaosium publication of 'Real Magic' by Isaac Bonewits. The picture of the goofball author looking 'pompous' complete with pipe clenched between his teeth is hilarious.It was no doubt items like this that helped feed the late 70's early 80's D&D=Satanism hysteria...
Kamelion wrote:I have two of those d100 golfballs. I'm not ashamed - I have something of a dice fetish. I picked up a d2 the other week (or a "coin", as it is colloquially known) and am always on the lookout for the elusive d1.Most useless gaming product I own? I am thinking that my Wizard's Kit probably qualifies. It's a 2e product that is a small plastic briefcase containing a wizard miniature, a set of dice (yay!), some card-stock cheat-sheets with wizard spells, THAC0, saves etc on them (they fold into a little pyramid, like a menu at a bad diner), and some wizard-themed stickers. Best of all, though, is the official Advanced Dungeons & Dragons pencil. Makes the whole thing worthwhile . I used to bring it to sessions when playing my wizard PC until the derision became too much to bear, lol...Oh, I also have a copy of the AD&D2e Trivia game. I love it to bits, but everyone I know claims it is worthless dreck. So I guess that counts. Does the Wilderness Survival Guide count? Think I must have opened that two or three times tops since buying the damn thing...My AD&D pencil still gets my top vote, though.
sleepyCO wrote:As for useless? How about all of the hardback 3.5 rulebook/supplements--the IRS tax code is more clear and shorter (and THAT'S hard to believe unless you've seen the Tax Code here in the U.S.!!). Does anyone really use any or all of those hardback supplements?
Winterwords wrote:ROFL. Yeah, but remember 3e was meant to streamline & simplify things
Badmike wrote:And ducks as characters aren't any worse than about half the creatures in the Fiend Folio.... Mike B.
sleepyCO wrote:Remember--"Congress" is the opposite of "Progress" as someone once said!
FormCritic wrote:Ah, yes....the Fiend Folio. Definately a mixed bag. Some classic monsters mixed in with with the bizzare and the useless.A nice collection of nuisance monsters....except that nuisance monsters are...a nuisance.One of the best pieces of art in AD&D is in the Fiend Folio....the warrior with the claymore fighting the lizard men. If only there had been some challenging lizard men in the book (besides the lizard king, that is...and not very useful since he's supposed to be a unique type encounter).Interesting how the classics from that book have survived...and some of the worst have also survived as jokes.Mark
killjoy32 wrote:bah fiend folio is one of my fave books and i dip into it with regularity in my games.mark: youre right with the warrior pic - classic art. i agree that some of the creatures in it are pretty silly, but generally, i think a fair number of them are cool for quality encounters.i still despise the WSG and the DSG. you won't ever get me to agree that they are worthy of any use, at any point of the day.Al
FormCritic wrote:The Fiend Folio was so...British. It struck Americans as rather lurid and silly. Early White Dwarf was like that a lot.Mark
sleepyCO wrote:Nice to know that someone likes the "golf ball"--I also have two of those along with a d5, d7, d14, d16, and a few other unusual ones. I also have a stuffed (plush) d6, d10, d12, and a large d20; when I asked (innocently) what they were used for (why would one need a d20 that's about the size of a NCAA women's basketball ), I was told that it could be used to throw at a sleeping player or DM to get their attention (roll 5 or more on a d20, no Dexterity bonus to the attacked one, automatic surprise ).
red_bus wrote:I could respond that a lot of lurid & silly things have come from the US too, but it is their lurid & silliness that is the point, not their nationality.
