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

[Wombat]

When it comes to D&D, and the WotC material in particular, I am highly selective. There are a lot of areas that just don't appeal to me (high level play, most adventures, many of the settings, etc.); I love the fresh blood provided by 3rd Party publishers, especially Malhavoc and Green Ronin, which tend to pique my interest more often.

There are some other games, though, where I am a near-completist and I do collect for a lot of different roleplaying lines (Ars Magica, NWoD, Paranoia, various Star Trek iterations, etc.), if that gets nearer to answering the question.

 

[Cadfan]

Only what I can use. With a DDI subscription, that means that I buy very little. Past the original three books, I've only purchased the Delve book.

Were I to buy more, I'd probably start with the DMG II and the Monster Manual II. I find it convenient to get character information from the character builder, but I prefer the convenience of a book at the table for monsters. And the DMG II isn't likely to show up in the Compendium.

 

[Nifft]

I buy what I think will be useful in my games. That's usually a lot more than what actually ends up being useful in my games, but oh well.

Cheers, -- N

 

[w_earle_wheeler]

I collect D&D material published prior to 1983, though sometimes I might go as far as 1985.

I never pay "collector" prices, though. Which means my collection is perpetually incomplete.

 

[thalmin]

I answered "quasi." I have nearly everything TSR from original, 1E, BECMI, 2E. I also have a lot of Judges Guild, Role Aids, and many other small publishers like Wee Warriors. By the time 3E came out, I was undecided if I wanted to continue buying stuff I wasn't reading or expecting to use. I think I missed a few things from WotC and a LOT from third party publishers. So far, I have everything 4E from WotC except the Powers Cards. I have a complete collection of DDM.
I also have Dragons Magazine 1-359 plus specials, Dungeon Magazine 1-150, Imagine Magazine 0-31 (0 was a pre-pub solicitation for ads and contained articles that would appear in the first several issues), Strategic Review 1-7, Little Wars 1-13 (all by TSR-WotC), White Dwarf 1-100+(from Games Workshop, the first 80+ issues contained D&D articles) and several other mag runs as well.
I really need to organize my stuff, catalog it, and get rid of hundreds of dupes. I just need a couple weeks months of free time.

 

[megamania]

I collect certain lines and campaign worlds.

DARKSUN
Got everything except maybe two of the ral partha figures

EBERRON
Got everything except for the Game Day promos and 4e stuff

DDm complete sets 1- 17. Without a group and money I have become extremely selective here for the past year or so.

3.0 / 3.5 I have whatever I can find for monster books (no PDFs computer won't support it)

basically.... too much stuff.

 

[malraux]

You aren't a completionist till you own all the arcade/pinball machines.

Currently, I am slowly acquiring all the Eberron books and would like a complete set of those. I enjoy buying all monster manual or fluffish books from old editions, but have no real desire to be completionist about those.

I am trying to pick up every puzzle with the TSR logo on it to use as artwork in my gaming room, but since I doubt that there is a full list anywhere, I cannot be say with any authority if my collection is even close to complete.

 

[Echohawk]

I'm a fairly serious collector in some senses, and not so much in others. I own either a printed copy or a (legal!) PDF of almost every D&D game product ever sold. I originally started collecting D&D products because I was attempting to create a complete index of all D&D monsters, and that made it necessary to have every product that might contain a monster. But I wasn't fussy if that was in print or PDF. Eventually I finished the monster index, and since then, I've been gradually filling in the gaps in my print collection.

For 3.X and 4th edition, I have copies of everything available for sale except the Deluxe 4e books and the Power Cards but I don't have a complete set of adventures distributed via the RPGA. For 2nd edition (which includes a truly scary number of products), my collection is missing only the Player's Packs, five Dragonlance supplements and some of the Decks of Magical Items/Encounters/Psionic Powers. For 1st edition, I'm missing five more Dragonlance supplements and three of the H-series adventures. For BECMI and earlier D&D, I have only about 25% in print, so plenty to still accumulate there.

I have complete print sets of Dungeon, Polyhedron and IMAGINE, but my Dragon collection only goes back to about #60 (but I have the CD-ROM collection of Dragon PDFs). I don't own any miniatures predating the pre-painted series, but I have more than 5000 of the pre-painted figures. I own very few of the Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance novels, but for most of the other campaign worlds, I have the novels too.

Eventually, I think I'd like to have a "complete" D&D collection for a reasonable value of "complete". However, over the years, there have been so very many things produced bearing a D&D logo, that I'm not sure if there is anyone on the planet who could claim to have a truly complete collection. (Or even a complete list of everything ever made.) For the moment, I'm happy to settle for having the largest D&D collection on one continent, which, as far as I know, is true.

Like DaveMage, I'm not interested in different printings of the same product. As long as the content is the same, I'm good with just one printing. Unlike DaveMage, I do aspire to eventually own a copy of ST1: Up the Garden Path. (But I'm not interested in the pinball machines...)

 

[Treebore]

It sounds like I should clarify some aspects of my being a "collector", I do not collect everything with the D&D logo on it. I only collect the books and modules. Even so, I do not want "mint" condition stuff, I fully intend on using everything I have, so buying it in obviously "used" condition is just fine by me, so I do not go for "condition", I think buying something that I will never touch, read, or use is a complete waste of money. So even though I have acquired a lot of things in "mint" condition, I have no intention of keeping them that way, they will be read, and hopefully used. The more often, the better.

Just with thousands of RPG books and modules, its hardly likely I will be the one who actually gets to use them very much. It will likely be my kids, or their kids, who gets to use them a lot.

 

[Invisible Stalker]

I guess I fall in the regular collector zone. I've got about 2/3 of the 4E books printed so far, but that percentage looks to drop in the months ahead. My 4E collection just passed the size of my 3E collection, but still has to catch up to AD&D. I also have a few Basic D&D items.