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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nopantsyet" data-source="post: 506681" data-attributes="member: 3109">Yes.  I have a nice collection that I intentionally avoid computing the total cost of.  Somewhere around two dozen d20 books...I'm running a homebrew now.  And while I don't directly use any of the source material for other settings, I think that just like good writers read alot, not to steal from other authors, but to keep their mind in that mode.  So I read alot, both source material and supplementary material, and I will get ideas unrelated to what I am reading just by virtue of my mind being there.I used to run Forgotten Realms with lots of my own additions to the canon, and avoiding encounters beyond rumor with any of the canonized NPCs.  And there's plenty of real estate in the Realms where people would never have even heard of any of them.</blockquote>