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Damn 200 D&D Books
- Thread starter Zardnaar
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Inspired by this thread, I started counting my books a few minutes ago. I stopped counting the second time I lost track. It was over seven hundred then and I had just finished with the official D&D stuff and started moving into the third party publishers. (I hadn't even started on the non-D&D games, such as the various World of Darkness games, various iterations of Star Trek and Star Wars RPGs, and so forth.)
My guess (too lazy to confirm right now) is that I probably have somewhere in the neighborhood of at least 1,000 books/boxed sets, probably over 1,200 if you count licensed products such as novels and video games. I have five book cases filled with gaming materials with more gaming materials stacked on top, and at least four boxes of stuff that I haven't unpacked from my latest move. I'm not even going to try to count the number of miniatures that I have, but I'm confident that it's in the mid-to-high four figure range, possibly pushing five figures. Hell, my case of unpainted minis was close to 1k figures the last time I checked.
The question that I have for you, Zardnaar... How many of those books have you actually used in a game?
My guess (too lazy to confirm right now) is that I probably have somewhere in the neighborhood of at least 1,000 books/boxed sets, probably over 1,200 if you count licensed products such as novels and video games. I have five book cases filled with gaming materials with more gaming materials stacked on top, and at least four boxes of stuff that I haven't unpacked from my latest move. I'm not even going to try to count the number of miniatures that I have, but I'm confident that it's in the mid-to-high four figure range, possibly pushing five figures. Hell, my case of unpainted minis was close to 1k figures the last time I checked.
The question that I have for you, Zardnaar... How many of those books have you actually used in a game?
Scrivener of Doom
Adventurer
My collection requires 15 linear metres of shelves and that's after trimming it down a few times because of shifts between countries. I've also made a concerted effort to get everything on PDF. As a result, my RPG folder is 91.9 GB in size although that includes a huge amount in .JPGs and similar picture files.
Anyway, this is where I am going to retire so I am not planning on moving again... and I have a purpose-built library/office for storing my stuff so I expect I will start accumulating again soon.
Anyway, this is where I am going to retire so I am not planning on moving again... and I have a purpose-built library/office for storing my stuff so I expect I will start accumulating again soon.
Jester David
Hero
Could we get pics?
What does your collection look like? (This might be worthy of it's own thread, a "Show us your gaming room" thread.)
Zardnaar
Legend
I'll see what I can do.
This is an older photo.
I'll see if I can find a new one. Excludes some AD&D stuff, minis and magazines.
Up to date shot.
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skinnydwarf
Explorer
Anybody know where a good place to dump off for 1E to 3.0 books and get some decent money back? E-bay seems like a bit of a pain to put 100 or so books up.
I would recommend Noble Knight. IIRC, they will give you cash, or more if you want to trade in (although since you want to convert to digital, trade-in might not be the best- although you might be able to trade in for something particularly awesome and rare).
http://www.nobleknight.com/
hedgeknight
Explorer
Since I no longer play in f2f games, I have sold off nearly all of my hard copies of gaming materials except for about a dozen books that I've convinced myself I really need for my online games. It makes for a quick count and quick list:
- 1st Ed. PHB, DMG, & MM - the reissues! Beautiful books!
- 1st Ed. Fiend Folio & MM 2
- 2nd Ed. DMG (original copy), Forgotten Realms Adventures, plus Encyclopedia Magica Vols. 1-4, & Faiths & Avatars.
- 3rd Ed. Frostburn & Stormwrack - two of my favs! Also, the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (which I think I will sell this fall).
- Other > Streets of Zobeck and the newly arrived Razor Coast hardcovers, one for Pathfinder, and one for Swords & Wizardry - gorgeous books!
My pdf library is HUGE with well over 300 titles. Saves a lot of space on my shelves for bound volumes of comic books, pictures, and trinkets. Oh, but I still have my Crown Royal dice bag full of polyhedrons! Not giving that up...ever!
- 1st Ed. PHB, DMG, & MM - the reissues! Beautiful books!
- 1st Ed. Fiend Folio & MM 2
- 2nd Ed. DMG (original copy), Forgotten Realms Adventures, plus Encyclopedia Magica Vols. 1-4, & Faiths & Avatars.
- 3rd Ed. Frostburn & Stormwrack - two of my favs! Also, the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (which I think I will sell this fall).
- Other > Streets of Zobeck and the newly arrived Razor Coast hardcovers, one for Pathfinder, and one for Swords & Wizardry - gorgeous books!
My pdf library is HUGE with well over 300 titles. Saves a lot of space on my shelves for bound volumes of comic books, pictures, and trinkets. Oh, but I still have my Crown Royal dice bag full of polyhedrons! Not giving that up...ever!
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