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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralif Redhammer" data-source="post: 8478069" data-attributes="member: 30438">One thing I've discovered is that Past Ralif could be pretty terrible at estimating what Future Ralif would want to have on his shelves. I've ended up re-purchasing a couple books over the years. These days, the only things I get rid of are books that I have a hard aversion to, generally because the creator is actively being a goon. Mild goonery will probably send it to one of the boxes in the basement (overflow of stuff I don't really use much, but don't want to get rid of just yet). If they are a moderate goon, I donate them to my FLGS so that they may at least benefit from it. If they are an extreme goon, the books go in the trash.*But regardless of being wrong sometimes, Past Ralif used the following criteria when clearing up his shelves:Core Rulebooks: generally stay - even if I'm not likely to play 3e or 4e again, I figure I ought to keep the basic PHB, DMG, MM set. When I got rid of my 3e books, I actually just kept the PHB, and sure enough, ended up re-purchasing the DMG and MM later on.Splatbooks: generally go, unless there's some interesting lore; if I come back to a game, I'm generally not going to want to revisit the bloaty parts of it.Setting books: will probably keep, because I find that stuff inspiring, and you never know when an obscure bit of history will be fun to track down or be useful in a current game.Stuff that I have a lot of nostalgia for: hard keep. Even though I don't know that I'll ever run LC3 Nightwatch in the Living City again, I wouldn't dream of getting rid of because it was the start one of my favorite 2e campaigns. And even though I'd probably use OSE these days, I couldn't bear to get rid of the original BECMI Books from when I was a kid.Stuff that I never played and don't have any vested interest in: sell to my FLGS for store credit. I picked up the Mongoose Runequest release, read it, and then it sat in a box for years until I decided to clear it out. *A certain extreme goon has given me the dilemma of whether to throw out their books or sell them to Noble Knight Games, because they actually go for a large deal of money. Enough that putting them in the circular file isn't as easy of a choice.</blockquote>

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