How many of you came close to selling off your stuff?

[werk]

Hi-

So how moany of you guys came close to chucking it all? And for those that did chuck it all and then came back, do you guys regret selling your stuff?

I gave away all my older edition stuff, after I switched to 3.5, largely for space concerns and because I was wasting too much time trying to convert old material to new versions and vice versa.

Haven't really regretted it except for the campaign specific materials.

 

[Arashi Ravenblade]

I dont sell anything. One time I sold all of my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when I was 11 or so and I have regretted it ever since. All those memories sold for a little cash. I felt like such a Judas.

Though I did sell one Roleplaying book because it was absolutely useless. It was Kingdoms of Kalamar, and I turned around and bought another book with the money. But I would never sell my books or anything else I owned.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

The packrat in me won't let me sell any of my books.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Mercule]

I sold off all my 1E and 2E stuff in 1993-ish when TSR started cracking down on Internet IP stuff (DnD-L was told not to use words like "hit points" and "armor class"). I was quite tired of class/level systems at that point, anyway, but that was the final straw.

I don't regret having gotten rid of those books at all and would still be unlikely to play 2E again. What I do regret is throwing away all the D&D specific notes I had on my homebrew world. Those had far greater value than I would have thought, especially with the ascendance of 3E.

 

[Treebore]

I came close several times. I came closest when I was burnt out by 3E a couple of years ago. Then I found C&C and am extremely glad that I never threw away any edition of D&D since I have been happily using bits and pieces from many of the books for the last year or so.

So I say be a packtrat. You never know when a system will come along that lets you use your books from every edition.

 

[Aus_Snow]

I sold or gave away most of the old (e.g., AD&D 1e) gear I had, a fair while ago. Only bits and pieces remain of that stuff. Can't say I honestly miss any of it.

In somewhat more recent times though, I haven't got rid of anything (new or old).

I don't foresee myself offloading RPG stuff from now on. . . not without a very compelling reason to, anyway.

 

[The_Gunslinger658]

I came close several times. I came closest when I was burnt out by 3E a couple of years ago. Then I found C&C and am extremely glad that I never threw away any edition of D&D since I have been happily using bits and pieces from many of the books for the last year or so.

So I say be a packtrat. You never know when a system will come along that lets you use your books from every edition.

hi-

How close is C&C to normal d20? Could I use the adventures without any major surgery? If I buy C&C, is there a new edition available? This seem's to be the normal thing with RPG books, put out a first edition then follow up with a 2nd edition.


Scott

 

[Prince of Happiness]

I dumped almost all of my 2E collection with the exception of a couple modules, Al-Qadim stuff (man, that setting's Monstrous Compendium is hard to find!), and any Greyhawk stuff I can get my hands on.

This meant that a LOT of FR stuff went bye-bye. Getting rid of the City of Splendors boxed set was a mistake, I feel. Elminster's Ecologies, not so much.

I've also dumped almost all of my White Wolf stuff with the exception of Changeling, also. No regrets there.

 

[William drake]

once

it was when I first lost the group I was playing with...but I still like to look at the books and use them when needing sats, or creative sources for writing. Glad now that I didn't, got another group now and all those books would have been hard to find again.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I got rid of a lot of stuff after I graduated college. I wish I'd saved more 1E modules than I did, but I did keep most of the stuff I really wish I owned today.