What are your gaming stuff mishaps?

[Dordledum]

Among other things, my parents threw out all my D and D stuff. From the original red boxed set through some 3.5 stuff. I had boxes of modules and campaign stuff. Thats where all my comics went as well. About 60 long boxes of comics.

Did you disown them? I would.

 

[JediSoth]

I've had two books loaned to people who moved away without returning them (Complete Arcane, and Top Secret S/I: G4 Files). These incidents were separated by decades, which is how long it'll probably be before I loan a book to someone again.

I also had my entire dice bag with dice stolen (or lost, but I think it was stolen) in the eighth grade. Never did find out who the culprit was but I did report it to the MPs on base. It was at least $50 worth of dice (in 1988 dollars).

 

[Holy Bovine]

I lost my custom made exploded rhino when I moved in to my new house last year. It was epic, if I ever find it I'll post some pics. I made it from an old rhino chassis that came in a bits box I got off of eBay.

Ok - I cannot be the only one who pictured an African rhinoceros mini in mid explosion and wondering when in the heck any campaign would need an actual exploding rhinoceros miniature. I mean how often would that come into play in any campaign?

 

[TarionzCousin]

Ok - I cannot be the only one who pictured an African rhinoceros mini in mid explosion and wondering when in the heck any campaign would need an actual exploding rhinoceros miniature. I mean how often would that come into play in any campaign?

I can see this guy making that happen.

 

[Glade Riven]

I've already had to sell off some books a few years back, but I've been lucky with some close calls. My hardcover Iron Kingdoms book got dangerously close to getting water damaged in a storage area that was "safe" from such things. Recently I was looking for my setting notes and had forgotten I moved them out of my backup drive (normally I copy, not move stuff from there) after I had reinstalled my OS.

 

[Rythwold]

All this is making me sad - I feel your pain! I don't have any horror stories myself but my father managed to drop a box with almost all his old British Army metal soldiers down a lift shaft by accident in the mid-1970s. Hard times.

 

[Holy Bovine]

I can see this guy making that happen.

Not a lot of rhinoceroses in Arthurian England.




and now we know why!

 

[Style]

I once lost a box of AD&D stuff during a flood. It contained a number of boxed sets: City of Greyhawk, Night Below, Ravenloft Forbidden Lore, Ravenloft Bleak House, Ruins of Zhentil Keep, the original Battlesystem, and Elminster’s Ecologies.

I was able to save the contents of the Night Below (but lost the box), and replace City of Greyhawk. I have yet to replace the others with anything but pdfs. I miss the Ravenloft boxes quite a bit, as I love me some Ravenloft. But as far as Elminster's Ecologies is concerned, I won't be in any hurry. Stupid pile of crap. Sometimes floods aren't all bad .

 

[grodog]

As a kid attending conventions in north Jersey c. 1983 or 1984, I distinctly recall wandering by the TSR tables in the dealer hall at Northeaster 1 or 2, picking up and looking at the $6 RPGA R1-4 modules, not liking the covers, and putting them back down and not buying them.

In the middle '90s, I sold my original run of Strategic Reviews, The Dragons (the oldest issue I had tracked down since starting to read Dragon with #58 was #11), my original OCE boxed set (bought directly from the Dungeon Hobby Shop) and OD&D supplements, and my original Holmes boxed set (a gift from my elementary school gifted teacher and librarian). I hadn't expected to be playing D&D again anymore at the time, and used the money to help pay off credit cards and student loan debt (so at least it was relatively well-spent). Thankfully I kept anything remotely Greyhawk-related, including my AD&D hardbacks and modules, and I've since replaced the other stuff.

Later toward the later '90s I sold my entire MtG collection, which consisted of ~13K cards from Alpha through ~The Dark (with a very heavy emphasis on Unlimited, Arabian Knights, and Antiquties) to a game store in Kansas City, who paid me half in cash and half in store credit. The store promptly went bankrupt within a month, effectively ripping me off to the score of ~$4K.

I live in tornado alley in Wichita, Kansas, so I do worry about the house's roof disappearing during a storm, which would definitely ruin many RPG books up in the attic. Hopefully that never comes to pass....

 

[Nellisir]

Threads like this are why I never, ever keep my gaming stuff, or comics (or books at all!) in my basement. In 25 years I've had two books (1 gaming, 1 novel) suffer water damage, and both were from my personal stupidity and leaving them outside. Both were dried out and I still have them.

I did sell 90% of my 2e stuff several years into 3e, and 90% of my 3e stuff a few years ago (and no, I didn't replace it with 4e), and I sort of regret it, but it really was a pain to move around.

I guess I don't have any horror stories.