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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4761021" data-attributes="member: 19675">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.</blockquote>

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