[D&D Collectors] Do you have everything? (And a poll about your buying habits)

[Mercurius]

...Or close to everything? I'm talking about official Dungeons & Dragons products, from OD&D to 4ed--although not "fringe" stuff like D&D miniatures; Dragon and Dungeon magazines are also borderline, but less so than the minis.

I kind of doubt that there is anyone out there that has absolutely everything, but I wouldn't be surprised if some folks are close and/or are trying to collect everything.

I ask this question because I just recently decided to expand my collection from a modest shelf and a half to a full five-shelf book-case (and maybe more). About 50% of my stuff is official D&D, 20% d20 stuff, and 30% other RPGs. My collection is by no means meant to be comprehensive, it is more selective; I mainly want to collect classics, the best hardcovers and modules, and a ton of settings, as well as a sampling of other RPGs and setting books.

So what about you? How comprehensive is your collection? Are you a "compleatist", or are you more specific along particular lines (e.g. All Planescape stuff, setting books, 3.5ed hardcovers, 1ed modules, etc)? If you are going for the gold (everything), what don't you have?

A poll is included for good measure, but it is specific to buying habits and goals--not what you already own.

 

[DaveMage]

I am working on collecting everything from OD&D through 3.5, although when I say "everything" I do *NOT* mean every printing of every item.

Some things I will never have (such as "Up the Garden Path") because I don't have THAT much money to blow on this crap.

 

[jdrakeh]

At one point, I was a near completist (I even pondered some Wee Warriors purchases) but the reality set in that I would never play even half of the games that I owned, so now I own considerably fewer items (and most of them in PDF).

 

[doctorhook]

Selective completist seems more sensible than the top option. I've only ever bought WotC/TSR stuff.

 

[Dykstrav]

I own most every 3E and 3.5 product published by WotC. I didn't get the last Eberron sourcebook that was all fluff and I didn't get the Grand Compendium of the Realms. But everything else, I got.

The big reason behind this is because I had enough disposable income to buy all the D&D stuff I wanted. Back in 1ED and early 2E days, my D&D materials amounted to the Player's Handbook and DM's screen I got for Christmas one year and whatever 1E hand-me-downs I could cobble together from other players. My parents were basically skin-flints and my father was big into his church at the time, so they wouldn't buy me D&D stuff. The very first thing I purchased for myself with my very first paying job at the age of fourteen was the Ravenloft Campaign Setting boxed set, House of Strahd, and Forbidden Lore. I spent as much as I could on 2E stuff, but bluntly, $90 paychecks didn't buy much D&D even in those days.

When 3E came out, I was still in college, but had enough cash to buy whatever D&D stuff I wanted. I kinda spoiled myself by buying basically every 3E product and almost every 3.5 product. I didn't purchase every pewter miniature and I don't buy the magazines. But everything else, I got.

I've also been buying almost every 4E product coming down the pipe. After Manual of the Planes, I'm starting to scrutinize the purchases though. After the Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide, I'm going to scrutinize the Eberron Campaign Guide before I purchase it. I was a big completist in 3E and 3.5, but I'm gradually reducing my spending habits with the 4E products coming out.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

I am a Casual Collector these days. I only buy what I have an interest in.

 

[Mercurius]

I am working on collecting everything from OD&D through 3.5, although when I say "everything" I do *NOT* mean every printing of every item.

Some things I will never have (such as "Up the Garden Path") because I don't have THAT much money to blow on this crap.

Are you our one and only resident True Compleatist, Dave? Or did you vote for the second category? If so, I'd like to hear from whomever voted for the first.

After the Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide, I'm going to scrutinize the Eberron Campaign Guide before I purchase it. I was a big completist in 3E and 3.5, but I'm gradually reducing my spending habits with the 4E products coming out.

Not to threadjack my own thread, but I like the Forgotten Realms more than Eberron, but the Eberron Campaign Guide is a much better book and really one of the best setting books I've every seen (and I'm a huge setting junky). Buy it and don't look back.

 

[Treebore]

For D&D I am about a 90% completist from OD&D to 3.5E. I have bought hardly anything for 4E, in fact only the PH1 and the Starter Boxed set.

I am 100% complete on certain companies, like Judges Guild, Flying Buffalo, Arduin, etc...

I am 100% complete on certain other RPG's like Shadowrun from 2E onward, Star Wars SAGA, L5R from 1E onward, Paladium Fantasy, Traveller from megatraveller onward and some other small run rpg's like Qin, Twilight 2013, etc...

 

[DaveMage]

Are you our one and only resident True Compleatist, Dave? Or did you vote for the second category? If so, I'd like to hear from whomever voted for the first.

No, I chose Option 3 since I am not buying any 4E.

I considered the first option to be D&D collectors buying 4E stuff too.

 

[Crothian]

I am a completest but selective/. I'd not a realms fan so I am not trying to get all the FR books, I just get complete collections of what I like.