Best D&D splat book never written...


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Here are the rules....

Complete ___________ (Slacker/Monkey/etc)

Races of ___________ (Equine/Ether/etc)

_________ Compendium

_________ Arcana

GO!

My suggestions:

Complete Half-Orc Barbarian (yes, sarcasm)

Races of Ooze

Magic Toe-Ring Compendium

Arcane Arcana (now with free wand inside!)

Grand Lodge

Adventure Path Charter Subscriber

Complete Commoner

Races of Meat

Mundane Equipment Compendium

Knowledge Arcana

Liberty's Edge

ooo ooo I want to play ;)

Complete Book of Skill Monkey Tanks who Buff.

(a book for the true cheese artist.)

Races of Draconic Humanoids from Other Planes.

(a how to make every race...every race.)

Complete Compendium

(a compendium of all role playing games with complete rules on how to complete them.)

Unwashed Arcana

(Dirty tricks of the arcane variety your dm will love to hate.)

RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32

My thoughts . . .

The Complete Office Worker

Races of Earth

Internet Address Compendium

Tax Code Arcana


Skeld wrote:
Races of Meat

I thought of "Races of Fur" after I submitted. :)


C0mpl3t3 l33t

Sovereign Court RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32, 2010 Top 8

Hmm If you're looking for serious answers.

Complete Equestrian (for mounted combat and characters)

Races of the Mind (We're getting this in essence from Dreamscarred, but won't see Gith, Thri-kreen etc.)

Construct Compendium (revised rules for handling constructs, including playing)

Astral Arcana (Book on stellar phenomina and magic, similar to When the Sky Falls)


Complete Unwashed Peasant

Races of the Far Realm

Slotless Magic Item Compendium

Nine Sword Arcana

Grand Lodge

Adventure Path Charter Subscriber

Complete Metagame

Complete Idiot

Obvious Arcana

Divine Arcana

Player Compendium (complete list of everyone that plays RPGs)

The Exchange

Complete Craftsman

Races of Beer

Profession Compendium

Arcana for Dummies


One book I guarantee will never be written:

Complete Sebastian

RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32

veector wrote:

One book I guarantee will never be written:

Complete Sebastian

The Court Fool Compendium (complete with free Llama)


Lord Fyre wrote:
veector wrote:

One book I guarantee will never be written:

Complete Sebastian

The Court Fool Compendium (complete with free Llama)

Not poodle?


Complete Profession
-This book allows you to develop your character to the extreme! Does your rogue want to be an artist? Does your barbarian want to be a bookbinder? If you have a character who wishes he could add levels under a profession, then this is the book for you. Filled with oodles of knowledge for advancing as a chimney sweep, ballroom dancer, poet, and over fifty more awesome prestige classes! Also, over 100 new weapons and armor, like the broom, tap shoes, and +3 crayon of quick movement.

Races of PC
-Are you a DM? Don't understand your PC's? You aren't alone. Millions of DM's around the world cannot relate to thier PC's. Well now you can with Races of PC. This book lets you categorize your PC by weight, glasses thickness and chip/dip intake. Also, included is a PC sheet in the back to record any progress with the team. Includes name (ex. Bill), type (ex. metagamer), and primary weapons (ex. +1 sharpened pencil-but not too sharp).

A Gamer's Life: the Compendium
-This book is Paizo's first novel. Tired of playing DnD? Then read about it! Many of the great Paizo staff include personal stories: Eric Mona tells about the stat block he wrote up in under 60 seconds; James Jacobs explains the dramatic scene of winning his first miniatures deul, and much more!

Internet Arcana
-All you need to know about the wonders of the internet, such as Play-by-Post, online games, free Paizo files! What else can I say... it's the internet.


Joey Lafyatis wrote:

Complete Profession

-This book allows you to develop your character to the extreme! Does your rogue want to be an artist? Does your barbarian want to be a bookbinder? If you have a character who wishes he could add levels under a profession, then this is the book for you. Filled with oodles of knowledge for advancing as a chimney sweep, ballroom dancer, poet, and over fifty more awesome prestige classes! Also, over 100 new weapons and armor, like the broom, tap shoes, and +3 crayon of quick movement.

Races of PC
-Are you a DM? Don't understand your PC's? You aren't alone. Millions of DM's around the world cannot relate to thier PC's. Well now you can with Races of PC. This book lets you categorize your PC by weight, glasses thickness and chip/dip intake. Also, included is a PC sheet in the back to record any progress with the team. Includes name (ex. Bill), type (ex. metagamer), and primary weapons (ex. +1 sharpened pencil-but not too sharp).

A Gamer's Life: the Compendium
-This book is Paizo's first novel. Tired of playing DnD? Then read about it! Many of the great Paizo staff include personal stories: Eric Mona tells about the stat block he wrote up in under 60 seconds; James Jacobs explains the dramatic scene of winning his first miniatures deul, and much more!

Internet Arcana
-All you need to know about the wonders of the internet, such as Play-by-Post, online games, free Paizo files! What else can I say... it's the internet.

I thought the Pathfinder Internet was a series of tubes spread across Golarion.

Sczarni

Skeld wrote:

Complete Commoner

Mundane Equipment Compendium

Hey - these two sound fun :)

The Complete Imbecile (WOTC should do a supurb job on this /humor) all about those henchmen who shoot like stormtroopers, and always lead the heros to the secret base

The Complete Assassin (thats right a whole book on one of the few prestige classes written correctly {in my opinion})

RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32

veector wrote:
Lord Fyre wrote:
veector wrote:

One book I guarantee will never be written:

Complete Sebastian

The Court Fool Compendium (complete with free Llama)
Not poodle?

Who would want a poodle??

Liberty's Edge

Complete Fungus

Races of the Olympics

Splatbook Compendium

Divine Arcana

Legal Arcana


veector wrote:
Joey Lafyatis wrote:


Internet Arcana
-All you need to know about the wonders of the internet, such as Play-by-Post, online games, free Paizo files! What else can I say... it's the internet.

I thought the Pathfinder Internet was a series of tubes spread across Golarion.

True...

Internet Arcana
-All about the little gnomes that the people of Golarian stuff into tubes. These gnomes run around the tubes at a fast pace, carrying email, updates, etc. This book includes personal stories from carrier gnomes, gnome mail (or gmail) tube encounters, and the legend of the fastest gnome of all: He Who Runs With Mail.

Dark Archive

Races of Wrath (Orcs, Goblins, Hobgoblins, Bugbears, Ogres, Trolls, etc.)

Complete NPC (Adepts, Aristocrats, Commoners, Experts, Warriors)

Complete Villain (new core 20 level Assassins, Blackguards, Red Wizards of Thay, etc.)

Book of Offending Jack Chick (new classes based entirely on things like blasphemy, blood sacrifice, drug-use-as-a-route-to-power, gay sex, brown people, 'Witches' who get power from remaining unmarried, etc. Class would include the Blood Magus (cuts himself to cast spells, and uses the blood drawn by his animated daggers to fuel even more magic), the Relic Thief (steals holy relics from churches to use stolen divine power), the Bone Knight (rips up bodies of those he kills to make weapons and armor of bones), the Necromancer (the armies of living dead kind, who has to dig up the graves of heroes and holy men to get the 'best' undead), the Cult Leader (who taps his hapless and fanatical followers for power to cast spells) and the Iron Juggernaut (fetishist who starts off with lots of piercings, and chops off more and more of himself to replace with ironmongery until he's more metal than man)).

Dark Archive

Joey Lafyatis wrote:
veector wrote:
I thought the Pathfinder Internet was a series of tubes spread across Golarion.

True...

Internet Arcana
-All about the little gnomes that the people of Golarian stuff into tubes. These gnomes run around the tubes at a fast pace, carrying email, updates, etc. This book includes personal stories from carrier gnomes, gnome mail (or gmail) tube encounters, and the legend of the fastest gnome of all: He Who Runs With Mail.

Nah, Greyhawk and Eberron might still use Gnomes, but Golarion has moved on to Quicklings. :)


Complete Nicholas Logue (Pathfinder's replacement Book of Vile Darkness)


the Complete Quit Making Complete Books

Races of NASCAR

FRPG Shoelace Style Compendium

Morona Arcana


Pathfinder Maps, Pathfinder Accessories Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Charter Superscriber; Starfinder Charter Superscriber
veector wrote:
Complete Nicholas Logue (Pathfinder's replacement Book of Vile Darkness)

Splatbook, not Splatterbook!


The Complete Loner
(Your parents were murdered; find out who did it and kill them! Also, the guide to being a tosser who only knows how to fight, and never speaks/interacts with the rest of your party)

Races of Smurf

Species that mate with Dragons Compendium

Squid-Mummy Arcana


I actually would have liked to see a book focused on Fey, and one on Giants.

There are also a couple of Forgotten Realms areas I would have like to have seen sourcebooks on.

I also wouldn't have minded seeing some more Planescape-type stuff.

Dark Archive

Uncut Hook Mountain Massacre

Scarab Sages

Evilturnip wrote:

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Species that mate with Dragons Compendium
...

they may as well call that one "Races Compendium"


I'm still working on the Complete Book of Elven Beards.

And whu not a Friendly Companion Compendium (there are never enough of them).


kessukoofah wrote:
Evilturnip wrote:

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Species that mate with Dragons Compendium
...
they may as well call that one "Races Compendium"

Even the Oozes? Eeeeeewwwww.

Dragons are sick.

Scarab Sages

Evilturnip wrote:


Even the Oozes? Eeeeeewwwww.
Dragons are sick.

Ya, but apparently they're never lonely.

seriously, i must have applied half-dragon to every possible type of creature from aberration to vermin. and yes. that goes against the "rules", but on nights when i feel silly, it's funny to have the players encounter the dreaded albino half-red dragon Treant of DOOM!

Liberty's Edge

Complete Minutiae

For those who need an offical written rule to cover every possible option.


Lords of Ickiness: the Book of Oozes

Complete Insane

Beholder Parlor Game Compendium

Scarab Sages

Majuba wrote:

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Complete Insane
...

so, like, you open it and see a picture of the far realm?

...
I'd buy that.
On a similar note, Complete Cthulhu, Cthulhu Compendium and Races of Cthulhu (or if you prefer, replace Cthulhu with lovecraft. I wasn't sure how to refer to the entire mythos) are also books i would buy, and would probly drive people insanse.

Liberty's Edge

Complete Fishwife

and

Complete Bog Iron Collector

Scarab Sages

Complete Map Monkey
Complete Accountant
Tavern Food Compendium


kessukoofah wrote:

Complete Map Monkey

Complete Accountant
Tavern Food Compendium

One of my favorite Realms books of all time was a 2nd Edition FR Almanac written like a catalog with a billion things (some useless) that you could buy.

It was much more user-friendly than the Arms & Equipment Guide.


Lord Fyre wrote:
veector wrote:
Lord Fyre wrote:
veector wrote:

One book I guarantee will never be written:

Complete Sebastian

The Court Fool Compendium (complete with free Llama)
Not poodle?
Who would want a poodle??

Complete Effete (now with free poodle!)

Scarab Sages

Races of Homunculi

Complete Beekeeper

Errata Compendium

Mundane Arcana

And off the board...

Rolling Plains: Mastering the Onslaught of Grass and Dirt

RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32

veector wrote:
kessukoofah wrote:

Complete Map Monkey

Complete Accountant
Tavern Food Compendium

One of my favorite Realms books of all time was a 2nd Edition FR Almanac written like a catalog with a billion things (some useless) that you could buy.

It was much more user-friendly than the Arms & Equipment Guide.

Aurora's Whole Realms Catalog! I still use it for my games.

Which was never updated for the later editions. :) Best Splat book ever!


My entries:

Complete Courtesan

Races of Incomprehensibility

Rule Lawyer's Compendium

Powermunchkin Arcana

RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32

The Complete Courtesan (a.k.a. The Book of Erotic Fantasy?)

Hybrid Races

The Chainmail Bikini Compendium

Furry Arcana

Liberty's Edge

The Complete Waste of Money

Races of Stock Cars

Pirate ARR-cana

Liberty's Edge

Filthscape: Complete guide to Sewers

*new p.c. race: stinkygnome!!!
*14 new monsters, including the albino alligator and poogolem (spoooooky)!
*51 "prestige" classes, including sewer delver and stinkspell mage!
*17 new feats!

*whatever the hell else you want

Liberty's Edge

The Complete Munchkin (you know you want it)

Races of Rape (half just about anythings)

The Compendium Compendium (keep track of all those compendiums!)

Re-earthed Arcana (for those optional rules best left buried)


Complete Flumph (C'mon, why hasn't anyone published this yet?!)

Races of Bearkind (Owlbears not enough for you? We've got over 200 bear/something else combinations for your game!)

Fae Compendium (In case you don't have enough tiny forest-dwelling tricksters in your campaign world...)

Cursed Arcana (Page after page of items you can hose your PCs with.)


1,001 uses for a d30
The campaign setting for the D&D movie
d20 Ingmar Bergman: taking 10 on staring out a rain spattered window, looking glum.
Arcana Devolved: the protoplasm RPG

Liberty's Edge

The Complete Moron

Races of the Muppet

The NPC Classes Compendium

Arbitrary Arcana


firbolg wrote:
d20 Ingmar Bergman: taking 10 on staring out a rain spattered window, looking glum.

Awesome.

The Exchange

The Compleat Angler

Wacky Races

The Sudoku Compendium

Anal Arcana

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