How big is your RPG collection?

[Mercurius]

A very simple poll: How big is your RPG collection? I'm talking about books and other paper, readable products like box sets, modules, etc. Please do not include PDFs as it would just get confusing - unless you printed out a PDF and have it on your shelf. I'm curious as to how many physical products people own (and I'm not including dice, dungeon tiles, miniatures, etc).

Feel free to include a description - how you store your books, etc.

Me: All tolled I have about 300 products, maybe a bit more. My collection has fluctuated over the years and at one point dwindled to a single milk crate three or four years ago during a hiatus from gaming. Then I finally accepted the fact that I was always going to love RPGs and went on a collecting binge over the last couple years, especially last year, which has slowed down a bit over the last year. I have them stored in a six-foot tall bookshelf in my office, on five shelves plus the top...the collection is starting to spill over.

 

[billd91]

I have a 6 foot tall, 4 foot wide bookshelf full of RPG stuff, plus a couple of milk crates, a 3 foot tall thin bookshelf, a large rubbermaid box (full of Traveller stuff), and 3 or 4 magazine boxes full of Dragons, Dungeons, Traveller's Digests, Shadis, and Challenge magazines. So I'm pretty sure I have over 500 items in my collection. I'm no completist by any stretch of the imagination, but over 30 years things tend to build up.

 

[Umbran]

Size doesn't matter. It's how you use it that counts.

 

[Ahzad]

I used to be in the 1,000+ category (might still be I quit counting at 800 and still had stuff to go. Yea I had to go counting when I saw the poll. I was curious.), but I've had 2 big sell offs since 2000 and getting ready to do another smaller one. It's just to much stuff that's beginning to take up to much space. Folks have seen the milk crate bookshelf pics I've posted in another thread. I've taken to getting pdf's of stuff that I rarely look at and get rid of the physical copies, well actually most stuff except the stuff that's near and dear. It's a sickness but one I've really enjoyed over the past 30 odd years.

 

[TerraDave]

By restricting my purchases and doing the occassional prune back I have kept in the large range. Currently kept on book shelves in the attic.

Of course, thats not really counting old dragons, minis, or boxes of my own notes. Or other hobby games.

I am a borderline case

 

[crazy_cat]

Gargantuan. 700+ items I think. It just all adds up over time - what with D&D (various flavours - AD&D 1e & 2e (modules and boxed sets including Al Qadim, DL, Dark Sun, and Planescape etc), Dungeon magazine, Basic, Compendium, 3.5, FR, Eberrron, DL, D20 OGL, Pathfinder, Conan, AE, IH, Castles & Crusades, OSRIC), Cthulhu (Call and Trail), Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader and Deathwatch, True 20, Traveller, Mage, Savage Worlds, WFRP 1e and 2e, various indie games, D20 B5, D20 Modern, Serenity, Space 1889, Dragon Warriors, Tunnels and Trolls, Fate, and Savage Worlds.

What I need is a gaming room, what I get is some very squashed shelf space.

 

[Huw]

To my shame, I seem to be the first to click "Colossal". However, over half of them would be magazines, fanzines and other such stuff. My collection of books used to take up two large bookcases, box sets were all in one cupboard, and those publications in several large boxes. They cover nearly all incarnations of D&D, Runequest and Rolemaster, plus various others.

Now nearly all are banished to the garage in boxes, where they still take up a lot of room. Occasionally I take some out to read, or, if I now find them boring, put them on eBay. I'm keeping all the monster books though

 

[Crothian]

Easily over a thousand. I was an ENnie Judge for many years and have gotten a lot of books for review purposes in addition to buying many books for the past three decades. I've scaled down the collection tremendously over the years and still have over a hundred books or more I'm looking to get rid of.

 

[Agamon]

Hmmm. I said "Large", thinking just about my books, but I forgot to consider adventures and magazines, which easily takes me to Gargantuan. Then there's my 1000+ plastic and metal minis....

 

[El Mahdi]

It used to be Huge, but I've since paired it down to a happy Medium.