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Poll: Least Favorite AD&D 1st Edition book?

Players Handbook 0%       0%  [ 0 ]
Dungeon Masters Guide 0%       0%  [ 0 ]
Monster Manual 0%       0%  [ 0 ]
Legends & Lore / Deities & Demigods 4%       4%  [ 3 ]
Fiend Folio 6%       6%  [ 4 ]
Monster Manual II 3%       3%  [ 2 ]
Unearthed Arcana 14%       14%  [ 10 ]
Oriental Adventures 25%       25%  [ 18 ]
Greyhawk Adventures 10%       10%  [ 7 ]
Dragonlance Adventures 39%       39%  [ 28 ]
Total votes : 72

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Post Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:51 am 
 

Oriental Adventures - trying to shoehorn D&D into somewhere it was never really meant to be.

Unearthed Arcana, and the Survival Guides I only ever really saw as for inspiration from which you could pick and choose (which seems to be how most people play them and fits their history as basically magazine article compilations). Given that I can't really say they're that bad.
  

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Post Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:31 am 
 

The survival guides hands down, and if I had to pick one, the Dungeoneer's Survival Guide was the worse of the two.

From the ones listed, I'd have to say Dragonlance because I could not stand the setting.
  

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Post Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:19 pm 
 

Opus T. Penguin wrote:The survival guides hands down, and if I had to pick one, the Dungeoneer's Survival Guide was the worse of the two.


I am in agreement with you about them being the worst, where we differ is only in the choice of which one is the absolute worst. Wilderness Survival was my least favorite of my two least favorites. I agree with you about dragonlance too.

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Post Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:46 am 
 

FormCritic wrote:I thought Oriental Adventures was a really good book.

Once you have made your saving throw and avoided being blinded when the book's binding exploded, you can gather up the pieces and learn some cool things about Asian game settings.


Am I the only one who never have a TSR book come apart on them?!?


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Post Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:47 am 
 

Opus T. Penguin wrote:The survival guides hands down, and if I had to pick one, the Dungeoneer's Survival Guide was the worse of the two.

From the ones listed, I'd have to say Dragonlance because I could not stand the setting.


The guides do have some good information in them. They are not all bad.


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