Gaming Book Shelf Competition
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DaveMage
Slumbering in Tsar
Nice!
(Although I think it might be tough to game with the dire housecat pawing the minis....)
Of course, the real question is when are you moving to Gainesville so you can be my DM?
Nice room, DM Jeff! But its lacking something...
Buy a couple of these, and you'll have your scaled-down version of Giza, complete with animate sphynx!
FRP GAMES - Your Hobby Gaming Source
Buy a couple of these, and you'll have your scaled-down version of Giza, complete with animate sphynx!
FRP GAMES - Your Hobby Gaming Source
grodog
Hero
grodog's gaming demesne
Here's a quick history of my gaming organization process, and some mostly-current pictures of things at the bottom. The first group of pics were taken in 2008 a few months before our son Henry was born (a month early) while I was at Gary's funeral. The second group were taken about five or six months later IIRC, and almost all of the fiction has been boxed up now as well (to make room to organized "stuff to sell" but I haven't gotten around to the selling part quite yet
).
Since all of these pics have been taken, about 30 boxes of books and magazines have been moved out of these shelves and into the attic (all of my Dragons, Dungeons, White Dwarfs, Polyhedrons, Different Worlds, etc. magazines; boxes of d20 stuff that I want to keep, but have no intention of using anytime soon; lots of stuff from the "modern" shelf below that I want to keep but won't be using anytime soon like my WoD and Amber and TORG and Fading Suns, etc. stuff for example; etc.). In addition, almost all of the D&D box sets and non-D&D TSR wargames/games like Dungeon!/box sets are also now packed away, including the EPT stuff.
The "modern" shelf is now my "stuff I hope to play while here in Wichita" like CoC (about 1/2 Chaosium, 1/2 Pagan Publishing, and a variety of other third-party CoC published works), Ars Magica, and WFRP, as well as my "good game designs" reference stuff (Paranoia, Dune, favorite 3.x books including all of Necromancer Games books), and my Old School Renaissance publishers stuff (Knockspell, Fight On!, XRP, Goodman 1e, and other Lulu- and non-Lulu-based publishers).
In addition, I recently organized my loose- and boxes of lead minis from Grenadier, Heritage, Ral Partha, etc. (I don't have any plastic minis), and they now occupy about 14 bankers boxes or so. I don't have any pics of those as yet.
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You guys are way more organized than I am....
This pic (above) is to show off my wife's "dust guard/make the gaming stuff look less ugly in our bedroom" tapestries; there's one on each of the two custom-built 48"x80" bookshelves in the room.
My modern rpgs shelf (same one as in the picture above, just with the tapestry rod removed, which is what I usually need to do while looking for a title). This includes my Call of Cthulhu, Ars Magica, RuneQuest, Star Wars, 3.5/d20 stuff (mostly WotC and NG), Fading Suns, and White Wolf Storyteller stuff (mostly 1e WW, some 2e I suppose).
This is the opposite wall of the room, to help share the awesome disarray of my stuff
---some of which is caused by the various baby boxes in front of the gaming stuff in front of the fireplace (the picture is sitting on the fireplace lintel), but I just haven't made the time to get it as organized as I need to yet. I do have another week of paternity leave coming up, though, so I'm hoping to make some good headway then.
The above two are some of the boxes in front of the fireplace, and the table between the fireplace and the other bookshelf.
These two are the bookshelf at the right-hand side of our bed (my side). This is where some of the non-D&D TSR stuff is (top shelf), most of the rarer non-TSR stuff, my in-use AD&D stuff, and my Greyhawk campaigning binders, RJK/EGG correspondence/manuscripts/etc.
These are views into our turret room, which is on the front of our house, and off of our bedroom; we'd originally envisioned this room being a baby nursery, but it's been storage since we moved in. There are 4 standard-sized bookshelves along the right wall, and lots of boxes piled around in front. Many TSR boardgames and other misc. boardgames I don't want within the kids' reach in the basement are here too.
The shelf closest to the window has gaming magazines, the next shelf has one shelf of overflow magazines, and three shelves of my HPL and related fiction (most of the rest of my regular fiction/poetry/reference/etc. bookshelves are in the basement, with some in our office); the next shelf is Moorcock stuff; the final shelf was supposed to be Neil Gaiman stuff, but got taken over by various and sundry medicines, shampoos, tissues, and other extended-bathroom supply stuff since our bedroom bathroom is pretty small and has essentially zero storage. So, the Gaiman books are boxed up on the floor, along with all of my miniatures, a few boxes of AH/misc. wargames, and some other bric-a-brac.
These last three pics are the HPL and MM shelves.
=== several months later ===
My collection is making good progress: I've spent several weekends organizing, sorting, and such, and am nearly done with that stage of things!
If you scroll up, you'll see the mess that our bedroom and my storage closet were; things have definitely improved, in the bedroom in particular, where most of the extra boxes have been organized, consolidated, grouped, packed up, labelled, and migrated to the attic:
The boxes remaining in front of the fireplace are AD&D hardcovers and modules (still need to be sorted and grouped beyond shrink/non-shrink), as well as the more-valuable non-manuscript items like 4th/5th/OCEs and supplements, Tractics sets, quarto-sized non-TSRs, and wargaming magazines.
Both of the big bookcases are now focused on my immediate research and writing needs (i.e., Greyhawk, dungeon design, Gygax, Kuntz, and other manuscripts, etc.), and the other rpgs I'm most-likely to play besides D&D in the near term (Call of Cthulhu, Ars Magica, Paranoia, etc.). Both have some open space that I'm still in process of re-sorting to a more-optimal configuration, and I still need to spend more time with the CoC materials to better organize them too.
The closet room is also much-improved, though still a bit of a mess, which is mostly caused by my boxes of minis that aren't as nicely organized as I'd like, and the Moorcock and Gaiman books that I boxed up to make room for shelving/sorting space. The closet will improve once I start to cull the duplicates and unwanteds in earnest!:
and
and
One more weekend of work, and I think I'll be good-to-go!
===
I think the "one more weekend of work" was way too optimistic: it took me a weekend just to get the minis organized, but the bedroom is much-more livable now, and once I carve some time out to begin selling duplicates, things I got in lots when I wanted just a few items in the lot, things I'm never going to use, things I no longer want to play, etc., life and living space will improve muchly.
Here's a quick history of my gaming organization process, and some mostly-current pictures of things at the bottom. The first group of pics were taken in 2008 a few months before our son Henry was born (a month early) while I was at Gary's funeral. The second group were taken about five or six months later IIRC, and almost all of the fiction has been boxed up now as well (to make room to organized "stuff to sell" but I haven't gotten around to the selling part quite yet
). Since all of these pics have been taken, about 30 boxes of books and magazines have been moved out of these shelves and into the attic (all of my Dragons, Dungeons, White Dwarfs, Polyhedrons, Different Worlds, etc. magazines; boxes of d20 stuff that I want to keep, but have no intention of using anytime soon; lots of stuff from the "modern" shelf below that I want to keep but won't be using anytime soon like my WoD and Amber and TORG and Fading Suns, etc. stuff for example; etc.). In addition, almost all of the D&D box sets and non-D&D TSR wargames/games like Dungeon!/box sets are also now packed away, including the EPT stuff.
The "modern" shelf is now my "stuff I hope to play while here in Wichita" like CoC (about 1/2 Chaosium, 1/2 Pagan Publishing, and a variety of other third-party CoC published works), Ars Magica, and WFRP, as well as my "good game designs" reference stuff (Paranoia, Dune, favorite 3.x books including all of Necromancer Games books), and my Old School Renaissance publishers stuff (Knockspell, Fight On!, XRP, Goodman 1e, and other Lulu- and non-Lulu-based publishers).
In addition, I recently organized my loose- and boxes of lead minis from Grenadier, Heritage, Ral Partha, etc. (I don't have any plastic minis), and they now occupy about 14 bankers boxes or so. I don't have any pics of those as yet.
===
You guys are way more organized than I am....
This pic (above) is to show off my wife's "dust guard/make the gaming stuff look less ugly in our bedroom" tapestries; there's one on each of the two custom-built 48"x80" bookshelves in the room.
My modern rpgs shelf (same one as in the picture above, just with the tapestry rod removed, which is what I usually need to do while looking for a title). This includes my Call of Cthulhu, Ars Magica, RuneQuest, Star Wars, 3.5/d20 stuff (mostly WotC and NG), Fading Suns, and White Wolf Storyteller stuff (mostly 1e WW, some 2e I suppose).
This is the opposite wall of the room, to help share the awesome disarray of my stuff
---some of which is caused by the various baby boxes in front of the gaming stuff in front of the fireplace (the picture is sitting on the fireplace lintel), but I just haven't made the time to get it as organized as I need to yet. I do have another week of paternity leave coming up, though, so I'm hoping to make some good headway then.
The above two are some of the boxes in front of the fireplace, and the table between the fireplace and the other bookshelf.
These two are the bookshelf at the right-hand side of our bed (my side). This is where some of the non-D&D TSR stuff is (top shelf), most of the rarer non-TSR stuff, my in-use AD&D stuff, and my Greyhawk campaigning binders, RJK/EGG correspondence/manuscripts/etc.
These are views into our turret room, which is on the front of our house, and off of our bedroom; we'd originally envisioned this room being a baby nursery, but it's been storage since we moved in. There are 4 standard-sized bookshelves along the right wall, and lots of boxes piled around in front. Many TSR boardgames and other misc. boardgames I don't want within the kids' reach in the basement are here too.
The shelf closest to the window has gaming magazines, the next shelf has one shelf of overflow magazines, and three shelves of my HPL and related fiction (most of the rest of my regular fiction/poetry/reference/etc. bookshelves are in the basement, with some in our office); the next shelf is Moorcock stuff; the final shelf was supposed to be Neil Gaiman stuff, but got taken over by various and sundry medicines, shampoos, tissues, and other extended-bathroom supply stuff since our bedroom bathroom is pretty small and has essentially zero storage. So, the Gaiman books are boxed up on the floor, along with all of my miniatures, a few boxes of AH/misc. wargames, and some other bric-a-brac.
These last three pics are the HPL and MM shelves.
=== several months later ===
My collection is making good progress: I've spent several weekends organizing, sorting, and such, and am nearly done with that stage of things!
If you scroll up, you'll see the mess that our bedroom and my storage closet were; things have definitely improved, in the bedroom in particular, where most of the extra boxes have been organized, consolidated, grouped, packed up, labelled, and migrated to the attic:
The boxes remaining in front of the fireplace are AD&D hardcovers and modules (still need to be sorted and grouped beyond shrink/non-shrink), as well as the more-valuable non-manuscript items like 4th/5th/OCEs and supplements, Tractics sets, quarto-sized non-TSRs, and wargaming magazines.
Both of the big bookcases are now focused on my immediate research and writing needs (i.e., Greyhawk, dungeon design, Gygax, Kuntz, and other manuscripts, etc.), and the other rpgs I'm most-likely to play besides D&D in the near term (Call of Cthulhu, Ars Magica, Paranoia, etc.). Both have some open space that I'm still in process of re-sorting to a more-optimal configuration, and I still need to spend more time with the CoC materials to better organize them too.
The closet room is also much-improved, though still a bit of a mess, which is mostly caused by my boxes of minis that aren't as nicely organized as I'd like, and the Moorcock and Gaiman books that I boxed up to make room for shelving/sorting space. The closet will improve once I start to cull the duplicates and unwanteds in earnest!:
and
and
One more weekend of work, and I think I'll be good-to-go!
===
I think the "one more weekend of work" was way too optimistic: it took me a weekend just to get the minis organized, but the bedroom is much-more livable now, and once I carve some time out to begin selling duplicates, things I got in lots when I wanted just a few items in the lot, things I'm never going to use, things I no longer want to play, etc., life and living space will improve muchly.
I love your collection, Allan!
My own RPG collection is surprisingly small - a bunch of AD&D products, little AD&D 2e, a lot of D&D 3e & 3.5e. Then a handful of other RPGs.
What I'm more happy about are my boardgames...
These pictures are from four months ago.
Wargames (the plastic boxes in the shelves hold Advanced Squad Leader counters). To the left, you can just see the containers my D&D Miniatures are in.
D&D and a few more boardgames
Other boardgames
Unfortunately, my collection of Dragon magazine and Dungeon magazine seem headed for storage. My non-D&D rpgs are in another shelf and aren't shown.
Cheers!
My own RPG collection is surprisingly small - a bunch of AD&D products, little AD&D 2e, a lot of D&D 3e & 3.5e. Then a handful of other RPGs.
What I'm more happy about are my boardgames...
These pictures are from four months ago.
Wargames (the plastic boxes in the shelves hold Advanced Squad Leader counters). To the left, you can just see the containers my D&D Miniatures are in.
D&D and a few more boardgames
Other boardgames
Unfortunately, my collection of Dragon magazine and Dungeon magazine seem headed for storage. My non-D&D rpgs are in another shelf and aren't shown.
Cheers!
For some reason, these pix make me think of this classic commercial...
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grodog
Hero
Many thanks Merric
Yeah, most of our family/possibly general interest board/wargames are in the basement (including stuff like Axis & Allies, Skirmish, DragonPass, Titan, Settlers, etc.), except for the small half-shelf of stuff in the dining room that we use more-regularly (Dungeon! long box, Carcassone Hunters & Gatherers, Cosmic Encounter, Sorry!, Chutes & Ladders, Candyland, etc.).
I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing, Danny: too much junk littering the shelves, or trying to preserve the natural beauty of gaming?
Thanks Dave! Once I get the shelves behind my desk cleared out some more in my office, that's where some key items will go (my 3rd printing D&D woodgrain, my continually-evolving version of Castle Greyhawk, publishing and reprinting projects, the books I'm usually carting back and forth to our current campaign [that currently sit under my chair in a backpack or shoulder bag
], etc.). I am hopeful that I'll also have some room to display some of my painted minis, but not sure if that'll work out or not, space-wise (sigh...).Similar Threads
