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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 6066866" data-attributes="member: 52734">I've had to do some "thinning of the herd" with my game stuff, sometimes to my regret.For most of my gaming stuff, I sold it through E-bay.  Funny thing is that it seems there's a bigger market for RPGs in Europe than the US.  The big pitfalls I had with Ebay is getting the shipping right, and generally found media mail USPS to be the cheapest and most reliable  (UPS, on the other hand, has been the WORST - if you do UPS make sure you get the option to have it signed for).One of the things I've learned is to keep the basic rules system books and purge the splatbooks.  More often than not, the splatbooks will take a good game and unbalance it or make it unwieldy.  Only keep those spatbooks (and adventures) that you feel really add to the game and you would use more than 2% of the content (i.e., one class, feat, ability, monster, etc.)  If there is something you really want to keep out of a supplement, but it's like "just one thing", think about photocopying the page(s) you want/need and excising the book.Also, as someone else mentioned, replacing books with PDF copies is often a great idea.  I've found my iPad is ideal for storing PDF copies of rulebooks and with some training, I now tend to use it instead of books.  I've eliminated an entire 6' tall bookshelf with it's use (and would probably have reduced more if the D&D scans weren't so horrible - see below).  Also, if need be, you can print out sections or the entire PDF if need be for game table use.  If you do go with PDFs, make sure you check out the PDF copy before you get rid of the physical copy.  I've run into a few PDFs that because of quality or size rendered poorly on my digital device and were unworkable (generally these were older books that were scanned in as big ol' honking images and not cleaned up or OCR'd - Lot5R 3rd ed, I'm looking at you!).Finally, if you've reached your maximum storage, when you're tempted to buy a new RPG or book, make a pact with yourself to get rid of TWO books that you currently own to make room for it.P.S.:  If you migrate to PDF's, back it all up.  Inititally I was backing up to DVD's, but if I got a new PDF, I'd have to make a new disc. Now I keep a backup on (two) USB 1TB drives (Thumbdrives work well too).  If, for some reason I lose the one drive, I have the spare kept in a safe place.</blockquote>

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