D&D 5E Buying Adventures

[Olaf the Stout]

I think you can see it from the poll, but you have drastically underestimated just how many adventures most people own.

I just did a quick count of the number of adventures that I have on my flashdrive at work with me today. I may have made a couple of miscounts, but I have at least 90 adventures with me, if not more than 100. Some of those are for other systems (Call of Cthulhu, XCrawl, Year of the Zombie and Delta Green), but even without those I still have over 80 with me today.

If I did a count that on my computer at home I’d comfortably get over 100 electronic adventures just for D&D alone. On top of that are hard copy adventures. I own 50+ issues of Dungeon Magazine (the actual hardcopy magazine, before WotC killed it off). Each of those issues has 3 or more adventures in it, so there’s close to another 200 adventures. Add in hard copy adventures that I own and you’d probably have at least another 20 (excluding those adventures that I also own in PDF format).

So I own over 300 adventures, or well over 100 if you don’t count those from Dungeon Magazine.

Now I’m almost certainly on the very very high side of the scale when it comes to the number of adventures I own (I bought a stack of them very cheaply when 4E came out and 3.5E adventures were being heavily discounted), but I am not surprised to find that over 75% of people in this poll own 11+ adventures. Even if you don’t use them as-is and only mine them for plot ideas, NPC’s and magic items, I find many published adventures to be worth the cost.

 

[Rygar]

I own probably close to 75% of the adventures D&D has printed, about 50% of the Dungeon Magazine line, 4 Pathfinder AP's, and I'm a AP subscriber.

I love D&D, but I'm creatively challenged. I suck horribly at creating material, but I'm very good at augmenting existing material. WOTC's approach to 5th edition adventures is one of the biggest things causing me to debate if I'm going to buy it. (Not fond of their "Gain a level here" approach)

 

[MerricB]

So I own over 300 adventures, or well over 100 if you don’t count those from Dungeon Magazine.

So you're a lightweight when it comes to adventures?

(Says Merric, whose adventure collection, while extensive, still has holes!)

Cheers!

 

[DaveMage]

I just figured the poll was in "hundreds".

11+ for sure.

 

[Ed_Laprade]

Fortunately the poll only went up to 11+, so I didn't have to wonder about all the non-D&D adventure modules I've bought over the years.

Before having to sell off my RPG collection for monetary reasons, I had dozens of games, usually with a module or three for each. And more for some. Forex: I've never played either Tunnels and Trolls or Villains and Vigilantes, but I had 11+ modules for each of them.

 

[Vyvyan Basterd]

I just figured the poll was in "hundreds".

11+ for sure.

I thought it was "How many adeventures did you buy in 1982?" 11+ is still too low.

 

[mach1.9pants]

I just figured the poll was in "hundreds".

11+ for sure.

Not quite 1100, but yeah more than a couple of hundred, depending if you count an AP as 1 or 6?

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Fortunately the poll only went up to 11+, so I didn't have to wonder about all the non-D&D adventure modules I've bought over the years.

Before having to sell off my RPG collection for monetary reasons, I had dozens of games, usually with a module or three for each. And more for some. Forex: I've never played either Tunnels and Trolls or Villains and Vigilantes, but I had 11+ modules for each of them.

Yep, I’m a mere neophyte compared to people like yourself or Echohawk.

I don’t think I’ll ever get close to even your current levels either. A lot of my recently RPG purchases have been in PDF format rather than hard copy. My RPG collection takes up roughly an 8ft x 5ft bookcase (some stuff is kept elsewhere) and I already cop flak from the wife about it.

“Do you really need all these books?”

We all know the answer to that question: “Of course, honey!”

Still, I’ve started some pre-emptive culling of the collection in preparation for the release of 5E. Things that I bought in the early 3E rush like Relics and Rituals I and II and Creature Collection I and II will be going to make way for the 5E corebooks.

 

[DaveMage]

I thought it was "How many adeventures did you buy in 1982?" 11+ is still too low.

Some were $5.50 then.

Not quite 1100, but yeah more than a couple of hundred, depending if you count an AP as 1 or 6?

I think I have over 300 just from Dungeon Magazine! (Although it goes down to about 100 if 1 magazine counts as 1 adventure.)

I'd count a Paizo AP as 6 adventures. So there's another 80.

 

[MerricB]

Still, I’ve started some pre-emptive culling of the collection in preparation for the release of 5E. Things that I bought in the early 3E rush like Relics and Rituals I and II and Creature Collection I and II will be going to make way for the 5E corebooks.

The major thing I consider when archiving my books is this: "Am I likely to need to answer a question based on this book?"

Sadly, the answer for almost all of D&D is, "Yes". Because people on the internet enjoy asking questions with obscure answers, I like finding the answers!

(@Mouseferatu and I were going through the original D&D books the other day, trying to work out when Tiamat and demons were first considered gods...)

Cheers!