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

[FnordBear]

Over the years I have sold off all my gurps books, gave away all my star wars d20 books and sold at one point my entire RPG collection to buy food.

Fortunately 4 years of steady income has allowed me to raise my D&D collection to pre-famine status

 

[wildstarsreach]

I'm slowly selling off stuff that I haven't used in 10 years but will hold on to my first ed stuff for sentimental value.

 

[Umbran]

I have never sold, or even considered selling, my RPG stuff. I don't expect the return would be worth the time and effort to find buyers.

I did sell some magic cards to help finance my honeymoon a couple years ago. But that's a no-brainer, when a single card will carry a $500 price tag.

 

[jollyninja]

I sold all my 2e stuff in about 1998 or so. all the class and racial handbooks, skills and powers, spells and magic, combat and tactics, all my planescape box sets, all my fr box sets, I have given away more 3e stuff then i would care to recall.

I am so not going to think about this anymore. yes it sucks. I really wish i could flip through the bards handbook right now, I want to play a blade again, now that was a cool bard.

as for my MtG cards, sold those well before that. as in before there were multiple series. Kinda wish i had kept a few of those.

 

[The Shaman]

I disposed of nearly all my D&D books a year or so ago - I kept the 3.0 core books and a few supplements for use with d20 Modern, and traded the rest for out-of-print Traveller books instead.

I'm wavering on my 1e Mutants and Masterminds books now. I may keep the core book and The Nocturnals sourcebook, and trade away the rest. Right now I have three boxes of gaming books, and I'd like to cut that down to two: one for d20, the other for Traveller.

 

[RFisher]

Sell gaming stuff? Horror! Blasphemy!

OK. I was weak once. I sold off all my 3e splatbooks. (But it was to a friend, so I still have access to them if I wanted it.)

A lot of that stuff I "never" use can be quite inspirational & useful when I bother to pull it off the shelf.

 

[Imaro]

The only D&D books I have just started selling/trading were my Eberron books. I enjoyed the campaign book when it came out but found the quality of the following sourcebooks varied too much. I am happier with Iron Kingdoms and Dark Legacies.(their releases are easier on my pocketbook as well)

I feel on the whole I have almost everything I want for D&D 3.5(including multiple player handbooks) There are a few more books I want to get(Tome of Battle and Rules Compendium) but in general there isn't much more that WotC can offer me that I would buy.

The only game line I truly collect everything for is Exalted( and I do mean collect, since I've only played it on two or three occasions.) and Witchcraft by Eden Studios.

I recently began trading or selling books off because I really have neither the time nor money to play and buy numerous games. If I trade I generally try to expand on a line I already own, instead of brancching into new games.

 

[Rothe]

I sold off a fair amount of stuff in the mid-80's for food money, desperate times. I also figured I didn't need it anymore especially the OD&D stuff as I had AD&D. I really regret selling the OD&D stuff but have replaced most of it. I wasn't going to sell my 1e DMG (very first printing) but was offered $20 for it and took it. In 2004 I was able to get a 1e DMG (although fifth printing) for $8 (with shipping) on eBay. So that turned out to be a wise financial move.

 

[orsal]

About 20 years ago, we bundled up a package of D&D stuff (3 core 1/e rulebooks, several modules, geomorph packages, dice) and offered it at a garage sale. At the time, I hadn't played for years, and didn't expect to get back into the hobby -- too many other things I preferred to do with my time. I'd moved on. But no takers. So the case where all of this (along with assorted dungeons that my sister or I had developed and DMed, and all my characters, and some random disorganized notes) was kept went back into the oblivion of the basement.

 

[Matchstick]

I'd sell all my old Magic cards in a heartbeat if I had any idea how. I'm not an EBayer, or really any kind of an online seller, but I want to make sure I get a good deal for the cards.

RPG stuff I wouldn't sell.