How have you lost the most gaming books?

[Kilmore]

All things are temporary. Gaming books more than most. This is a poll and a topic to discuss the causes of game book mortality and how you've adjusted to the grief.

 

[Crothian]

I lost to the elements, back in the 80's my first edition OA binding melted and the pages fell apart. I think I managed to not loose a single one. I'm really careful with my books, I have every one I've ever bought and they are all in really good condition (knock on wood).

 

[shilsen]

Never lost any. I'm very careful with them, so even if the covers and binding eventually get a little battleworn, they hold up indefinitely.

 

[Psychotic Dreamer]

I keep my books in very good shape. Partially due to the fact that I don't get to game very often. So for long periods of time they are just sitting on shelves.

 

[Ranes]

Gives me no pleasure to record the first stolen vote.

Including but not limited to... Dragon 1-115 (plus two copies of Strategic Review), 1st edition AD&D core books, 6th reprint edition of white box D&D, everything GDW published for 'classic' Traveller including Journals 1-24 (except 5), White Dwarf 1-117, CoC (and a lot of adventures), RQ, Ringworld, Skyrealms of Jorune, RM, SM, MERP, a whole bunch of SJ games, 1st and 2nd ed. Warhammer (Battle, FRP, 40k) and hundreds of miniatures, including a dozen that were handmade and painted by GW art wizard Jon Blanche (a gift to me when I did a small piece of writing for him).

I gave away the original art for a Fighting Fantasy book done by Jon, too (sorry, Jon but you'd forgive me if you ever met her).

I now own some 3E D&D stuff and and the reprinted little black books compilation. Oh yeah, and the Dragon CD-ROM!

So it goes.

 

[Chauzu]

I loaned my Waterdeep book to a friend once, and never saw it again.

 

[Deadguy]

I had to mark 'confiscated' because there wasn't the exact option for me. I mean, what do you do when you find that your Mother has decided that the bookshelf looks untidy and gives the whole lot away to a charity shop, including all your gaming books you haven't taken away to University with you?

Don't worry - I forgave her - eventually!

 

[Kilmore]

Other than Croth's OA, nobody's lost books to natural causes? Nobody's played 2nd ed., where the books were rigged to explode in use?

 

[Psychotic Dreamer]

Other than Croth's OA, nobody's lost books to natural causes? Nobody's played 2nd ed., where the books were rigged to explode in use?

Well the only 2dn Edition book I owned was the PHB and I never really used it.

 

[Ashwyn]

Mine were stolen. Core books, most of the splat books, CoC, FRCS, MotP, De&Dg, PsHB. Plus some issues of Dragon and Dungeon. Plus the Living Greyhawk Gazzeteer. Along with all my homebrew campaign info.