How do you organize your d20 shelf?

[AGGEMAM]

Organize ??? Scattered all over the floor !!! Seriously, I'm only happy if I can't see the floor for D&D material.

 

[Larry Fitz]

Originally revealed by MEG Hal
Shelf 1 highest Hardbound books by company and era with WoTC and core to the right and my stuff all the wauy to the left.
Second shelf Minis, signed stuff misc...
Third all softcover by company and to the left Hardbound non-d20 books
Fourth magazines and more supplements
Fifth Notebooks and leftover stuff.

So Hal, if I make a road trip and sign some of your LI books, we jump to the second shelf? Could be worth it....


For the record I only have four shelves of stuff in my bookcase (the rest is on various endtables and coofee tables throughout the house), and due to the unsteady nature of my ancient bookcase, heavy books on bottom shelf, light ones on top....

 

[Zander]

My d20 shelf is organised in the following categories:

PHB & DMG
Monsters
Races
Magic
Equipment
Classes
Deities & planes
Modules & DM's screen
Errata

I also have one or more shelves for each of the following:

1E AD&D, other RPGs & gamebooks
2E AD&D
2E Box sets & monster files
Books about RPGs
RPG collectibles
Miscellaneous RPG material
Miniatures (whole shelf unit & cabinet)
Dice
Books about: arms & armour, castles, monsters, mythology
Literature: Dracula, Three Musketeers, Beowulf, Ivanhoe etc
Books about: fantasy art, fantasy films, dice
Tolkien: Silmarillion, Hobbit, LotR, other works by JRRT, Bored otR
Fantasy action figures
Fantasy films on video

 

[haiiro]

My d20 shelf goes something like this...

Core books all the way on the right (but not the MM)
DM's reference material (BoVD, etc.)
Splat books from various publishers
Forgotten Realms books
Books of Eldritch Might I & II
DM screens and my folder full of maps
Many monster books from various publishers
Relics & Rituals I & II all the way on the left

The shelf above that one holds all of my modules and less-used material (like Scarred Lands region books, Greyhawk Gazetteer, etc.). Dragons and Dungeons sit in two large stacks on the very top of the shelf.

The majority of my non-3e gaming books are in storage, including most of my 2e stuff. I do have my FR and SJ boxed sets, FR regional supplements and SJ supplements here - the boxes sit on top of some of the other books, and the supplements are mixed in with the less-used material.

I definitely like it when my gaming shelves present a nice unified front (hardcovers next to each other, etc.), but the diversity of the d20 material is actually kind of appealing. Not the most logical layout, but it works for me.

Edit: Forgot about my 2e stuff.

 

[Psion]

I have two crates, a plastic box, my headboard, my backpack, and a shelf.

My first crate is an "in use" crate, which has the stuff I use frequently for the current campaign. Right now, its got the core books, Psionics Handbook, MotP, Relics & Rituals, CC2, ToH, Legions of Hell, the Pocket Grimoires, ITCK, and my notes.

My second crate is almost empty, but I used to have two "in use" crates until I decided that they were a pain in the arse and shelved about half of that stuff.

The plastic box and my headboard has stuff I plan to review soon and/or involve in the game soon.

My gaming shelf space:

Top Shelf: Mini's, old boxed sets.

2nd Shelf: More old boxed sets, and other game products that I haven't seen fit to put into storage, mainly stuff for other games I am currently interested in (Hero system) and some 1e/2e and other game stuff that I use for my 3e game.

3rd & 4th shelves: d20/D&D stuff.

Sorted by:

Publisher

Sorted within publisher by game line (D&D, D20 Modern, D20 CoC, Wheel of Time) and then by book type (FR, Classbooks, Cap System books, adventure path, etc.)

I don't bother sorting alphebetically or anything like that. Which publisher goes on which shelf is largely a function of which publishers I can fit on the shelf in a contiguous manner. I had to swap FFE and FFG books between shelves recently because FFG wouldn't fit into the space on the top shelf.

5th shelf: Dugneon Magazine and Dragon Magazine, sorted by issue, and non-gaming star wars books.

Bottom Shelf: Novels.

 

[Henry]

When I take the initiative to organize my game materials, I usually do it by game, but I do not put them in alphabetical order, just in series order. Otherwise, they are a bit of a mess.