Every go through your books and find extras?

[Agamon]

Well, I have two copies of Keep On the Borderlands, Against the Giants and White Plume Mountain, thanks the TSR Silver Anniversary set. One each of a Dragon and Dungeon (the Dungeon, a friend bought for me, not realizing I was a subscriber, the Dragon, I asked Paizo to send me another copy when mine hadn't come for 3 months and three months after that, the original, somewhat tattered copy showed up at my door). I have two copies of A2 Secret of the Slaver Stockade, not sure how or why.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Most of the duplicate stuff in my collection is stuff I intentionally bought. I'm going through the aftermath of a renovation and I'm culling all kinds of things from my life, including gaming stuff I no longer want or need.

Despite having a game collection I'd post in http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/260139-gaming-book-shelf-competition.html (except I'm still unboxing it), so far, the only unintentional replication I've found is second copy of 1996's Forgotten Realms Faiths & Avatars.

 

[Eosin the Red]

My D&D books are full of all kinds of extra crap...

<SNIP>

Oh....you mean extra books?

Wow. I thought I had some strange nick-knacks lying about.

I found a second copy of Hudson City the Urban Abyss and once I found a fairly rare Birthright kingdom book that I had no idea I had or when I purchased it.

The last was a great find.

 

[grodog]

I'm rearranging my older D&D books and placing product lines together and just making things easier to find if I would need to. I am surprised to find that I seem to have duplicates[snip]

I've got a significant number of duplicates 1e books and modules from over the years. In many cases they were included in eBay lots that I bought, where I bought the lot for just a few of the items in it; in other cases, I've picked up nice condition 1e PHBs, DMGs, MMs, and such at used bookstores with some regularity, if the price was sufficiently low. In addition to my play copies of the rulebooks, I now own 19 MM, 19 PHB, 14 DMG, 8 D&DG, 7 MM2, 7 UA, 5 FF, 3 DLA, 2 DSG, 1 WSG, 1 GHA, 1 OA, 0 FRA, and 0 MotP. None of those figures include the miniature versions of the books, or later editions; or the 11 OD&D box sets plus the 1 woodgrain set. Until I started to organize my collection better, I certainly had no idea that I had sufficient books to stock three 1e-based FLGSs

Another thing that amazes me is the other crap I stored in some of these box sets. [snip] So, what odds and ends have you found going through old gaming books?

In my own books and boxes, I've found stuff that I'd lost years earlier, including:
- my original correspondence with EGG and RJK from 1987-88 during the New Infinites days (stored in the original mailing box from the Dungeon Hobby Shop that I received my first OCE in, though I sold the OCE in the middle '90s)
- some of the first adventures I ever created (really bad )
- in my 1e FR box set: pages of collected FR names of places, NPCs, treasures, etc., compiled from Dragon articles prior to the publication of the original box set
- partially finished maps

In used stuff I've bought, I've sometimes found fun unexpected goodies, including:
- a complete but cut set of Outdoor Geomorphs
- extra modules in box sets
- homemade dungeon or wilderness maps (sometimes with keys)
- PCs/NPCs on looseleaf or character sheets
- random campaign/adventure notes

 

[Voadam]

I've never bought the same (physical) RPG book twice, but I did buy a second copy of an RPG PDF I already owned. It was part of an extensive line that was massively discounted in a sale and I was buying a lot of the publisher's PDF products that day (one of those 3.5 sell-offs back when WotC/Hasbro were still being d-bags with the requirements in the old GSL), and I'd received the first copy free from the publisher for some reason I now forget, so I didn't feel that bad about it.

I did that with some pdf products. I think I either won in a contest or bought unorthodox barbarians in a sale then later there was a huge temporary TheLe Games sale bundle that I considered worth getting even though it included Unorthodox Barbarians. Another time I ordered Out for Blood from Your Games Now and the download link was incorrectly for another Bastion Press/DragonWing Press book. I contacted the site, they fixed the link and I got the correct one for Out for Blood and the copy of the other book, which I already owned in pdf.

I own two physical sets of the 1e Dungeoneer's Survival Guide and the 2e Van Richten's Guide to Ghosts. I believe my brother and I both got the 1e book and he eventually didn't want his, but I'm not entirely sure how I got the second ravenloft one.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

You know what I do have unintentional duplicates of? Novels.

I buy so many doggone books that I occasionally buy a duplicate.

I sat down to read The Sky People by S.M. Stirling the other night, and realized I had read it. However, since I can't remember how it ended- AND I'm running a campaign that has a similar setting- I'll just continue reading it again.

 

[diaglo]

like grodog i picked up extras in auction lots.

i have given some away though. to ENWurlders, WotCers, and a couple guys on Mortality.net.

i am saddened though that much of my magazine collection ended up in Anne Arundel County, Maryland recycling. Imagine, White Dwarf, Polyhedron, and The Dragon. all gone. but the few i had with me when i moved to GA. my parents cleared out much of their attic to make room for my sister's stuff after her divorce.


edit: and like Dannyalcatraz i have a few extra novels.

 

[Henry]

For some reason, I had that exact problem with my second edition copy of Vampire: the Masquerade. I swear, I purchased at least five copies of that book before it stopped disappearing.

How many players were in your regular group at the time?....

 

[Henry]

For myself, I've found odds and ends mixed in with game books, though with my moving last year, all that got cleaned up, because of the sorting I did. Now, heaven help me, all my game books are where they're supposed to be.

However, I do have a nearly complete set of Star Fleet Battles technical read-outs, still left over from when a friend of mine asked me to scan them in so we could print the sheets out cheaply. I lost touch with him over the years, and to this day I STILL have the books in safekeeping, should he ever call and want them again. Lord knows I won't be playing that darned game ever again... Reading server audit logs are more entertaining!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I feel your pain, diaglo.

I still have all of my gaming mags, including Dragon back into the 40s, but I long ago gave away my Omni magazines, and sometime in the next year or so, I'm going to be donating 99% of my comic book collection to charity.

For a considerable right-off, of course.