How much of a Collector are you?
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Tinker Gnome
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Echohawk
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Did you buy all the SAGA Edition Dragonlance stuff?Well, for me. If it is Dragonlance related, and I have the money, I will buy it. Regardless of how bad it is supposed to be.
Tinker Gnome
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Did you buy all the SAGA Edition Dragonlance stuff?
I am actually quite interested in said system, I like what I read about it. And I loved the Dragons of a New Age novels. I can not find the stuff for it though.
I am talking more novels like The Dark Queen, which I can not even finish.
Drkfathr1
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I used to be a collector of many things. I'd get into a habit of buying everything I could find when it came to something I liked. Then I realized how much money I was wasting and how much stuff ended up sitting on a shelf getting dusty or stored away in a box somewhere.
I was a completionist when it came to D&D, until like others, I realized how much as setting on a shelf unused.
Thankfully i've broken my habit and now only buy the books I think I'll use. If its questionable, I'll do without.
Amazing how much money I've saved, and the funny thing is that I have more money now to spend on such!
I was a completionist when it came to D&D, until like others, I realized how much as setting on a shelf unused.
Thankfully i've broken my habit and now only buy the books I think I'll use. If its questionable, I'll do without.
Amazing how much money I've saved, and the funny thing is that I have more money now to spend on such!
When I got into D&D, I treated acquiring the game product like I treated my comic book collection- IOW, I was a "completist." This was made tougher when, 2 years into the hobby, my family moved to Manhattan, Kansas, and I would have to go to Topeka, Wichita or Kansas City to get the newer stuff. Once a month, we'd take a trip to "the big city" and I'd drop a good $50+ on modules and minis...possibly less if the seashell shop in KC had a specimen I was really hot for.
(Yes, I collect seashells as well. And other things besides. One might say I collect collections...)
However, by the time 2Ed came around, I became more discriminating. I still bought a LOT of D&D stuff, but at that point, I was also playing Champions (which would become HERO) and Traveller, which I'd picked up in KS. I had other things to buy AND I started running more and more homebrew stuff, so I got pickier. I had become a "collector" instead of a "completist." Still, I got most of the modules, and my collection of Dragon goes back to about #40 or so.
My RPG collection eventually peaked at a little over 100 different games- mostly just the core books and most of which I've played- before I started culling. I'm down to about 67 distinct games now.
Like Drkfathr1, I've pared down a lot of my collecting, even though I'm making more money than I did as a kid...
Unfortunately for me, my remaining active collections are more expensive- gemstones (which I DO have made into jewelry...when I have the cash), guitars and effects pedals, etc.- so its a bit of a wash.
(Yes, I collect seashells as well. And other things besides. One might say I collect collections...)
However, by the time 2Ed came around, I became more discriminating. I still bought a LOT of D&D stuff, but at that point, I was also playing Champions (which would become HERO) and Traveller, which I'd picked up in KS. I had other things to buy AND I started running more and more homebrew stuff, so I got pickier. I had become a "collector" instead of a "completist." Still, I got most of the modules, and my collection of Dragon goes back to about #40 or so.
My RPG collection eventually peaked at a little over 100 different games- mostly just the core books and most of which I've played- before I started culling. I'm down to about 67 distinct games now.
Like Drkfathr1, I've pared down a lot of my collecting, even though I'm making more money than I did as a kid...
Unfortunately for me, my remaining active collections are more expensive- gemstones (which I DO have made into jewelry...when I have the cash), guitars and effects pedals, etc.- so its a bit of a wash.
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Knightfall
World of Kulan DM
Whyte Knight here in Edmonton has quite a few of the Fifth Age boxed sets. I've considered them, but I'm not into that system.I am actually quite interested in said system, I like what I read about it. And I loved the Dragons of a New Age novels. I can not find the stuff for it though.
Can anyone tell me how the "fluff" is in those Dragonlance products? (I don't care about the rules.) Specifically, the Bestiary and Palanthas book supplements and The Last Tower: The Legacy of Raistlin boxed set.
Tinker Gnome
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Sunderstone
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I collect anything Pathfinder, and still looking for more 3.5 things from Goodman (DCC 17.5 in particular).
