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Are you seeing a different Old School than I am? I thought it was about armor classes that required understanding negative numbers and...

I could be missing something subtle, but I think everything you mention in your last paragraph could be done in D&D 5e, A5e, Tales of...

I got into the hobby in the 90s — the 1106 D&D tan box and AD&D 2nd Edition — and the way everyone around me played was trad. Plotlines...

I can only speak for myself (naturally!), but I read a comment on Reddit a few years back that summarized my feelings about OSR vs 5e...

Moving seems to be the catalyst for anyone who becomes discerning with books (of any kind) and choosing when the buy physical vs digital.

When I had a move a little over a year ago, I gave away a literal pick up truck bed full of RPGs (in legal file boxes) away because I...

You remind me - my LFGS sells used TTRPG books. Presumably they buy them at a discount from the person getting rid of it. That might be...

Probably not a good person to respond. I still have my white box D&D and black box Traveller sets. But even if you don't run them...

oh 100% - amortized over the life of a game system it is definitely cheap. I didn't mean to disagree with you- just explaining why I...

When I’m a player, I appreciate any and all efforts to chronicle games, and I read them prior to the next sessions to refresh my memory...

Looking at the replies, which mirror in gist what I was about to say, I think the audience for most of our session write-ups is much...

Can't answer because this hasn't happened to me. I've only been in the hobby around 5 years at this point (give or take a year). While...

don't 100% know if there's truth to this, but someone claimed either here or on reddit that leaving your books shrink-wrapped can lead...

My collection is a black hole - things enter, but they never leave. In actuality, it is mostly that I have never bothered to try to...

I keep them all. They're a collection.