Do you modify/write-in your game books?

[Esau Cairn]

I had some marijuana the one night and ...

Ah. The Mel Gibson defense.

 

[R_J_K75]

Ah. The Mel Gibson defense.

Funny you say that my PC was named Melrig Davidian.

 

[MonkeyGland]

I feel like books are a conversation between author and reader, so I'm happy to conduct that conversation in the margins. When I go back it's interesting to see what I thought the last time I read it - so it becomes a conversation with a past me, too. I love finding marginalia, it brings a books previous lives, well, to life. Of course, I make a distinction between good first editions and reading copies. The FE's get cosseted in archival wrapping and kept out the sun - the reading copies get annotated.

 

[aramis erak]

I only use pdfs, but even in the tree-murdering days, I wrote, highlighted, and amended. I don't do that is literature, but an RPG book is a manual.

On my 10" eInk, I can still write in the book!

 

[Scott Christian]

Always. Writing in books is a must; underlining great lines, names, putting smiles next to paragraphs, tracking hit points in adventures, etc.

 

[Jd Smith1]

On my 10" eInk, I can still write in the book!

Me, too!

 

[Lord Mhoram]

I tend never to write in my books, of any sort (I don't have cookbooks). If I am studying for a class I will, but to me that is not a permanent book, it's a study guide. My books get wear, spine issues and such as I love them and use them, but I don't write in them, nor dog ear them - I want my books to last my lifetime, and more if possible, so I tend to try and treat them gently, but I do not idolize them in untouched form.

 

[uzirath]

In my early days of AD&D, I recall that my friends and I would cross out any unique creatures in the Monster Manual once we had defeated them. We'd work our way through the archdevils and demon lords. Then we got Deities and Demigods and continued the tradition. More recently, I don't usually write in gamebooks, though I often fill them with post-it notes, mostly as bookmarks to different sections, or to note things I want to change.

Though, when I buy RPGs for the middle school that I work at, we scrawl right on the covers with big silver sharpie:

 

[el-remmen]

So I have been going through all my old DnD books sharing photos and memories on my HOW I RUN IT instagram account and thought I'd share some examples of my scribbles, notes, and chickenscratch to delight and horrify the folks in this thread. Personally, every time I come across an example of this stuff (most of which is twenty or thirty years old, I absolutely LOVE it).

 

[Maxperson]

I will highlight the portions of a module that I will read to the players, as well as important information for the DM. Other than using highlighters in modules, I never write in my books.