Making the cut for your TTRPG library

[Professor Murder]

So this is just for physical ttrpgs.
So I picked up the Spelljammer and Planescape boxes (Special FLGS covers for both) and with some distance from the purchase, both are underwhelming. I don't expect to run either campaign any time soon and its honestly making me wonder if I should continue to dedicate precious shelf space to them going forward.

How long do you hold onto a game book you don't like before unloading it somehow?

 

[Dyson Logos]

As long as it takes to find someone who wants it. I tend to give away a lot of my extra books.

 

[GMMichael]

Usually before I buy them / after I've flipped through them at Barnes and Noble.

 

[Morrus]

I keep them all. They're a collection.

 

[Umbran]

How long do you hold onto a game book you don't like before unloading it somehow?

My collection is a black hole - things enter, but they never leave.

In actuality, it is mostly that I have never bothered to try to unload anything. I just put up with awkward stacks of books from time to time, until I increase shelf space.

 

[Professor Murder]

Part of the reasoning for me unloading a book thats not for me is that it may be for someone else. Id rather a book that would just take up space and in effect be just decorative be used by someone if possible.

 

[Spellslinging Sellsword]

I need to pare down my collection. At this point I have multiple things from Kickstarter that are still in shrinkwrap and my bookshelves can't hold all the stuff I've accumulated over decades of purchases.

 

[Morrus]

I need to pare down my collection. At this point I have multiple things from Kickstarter that are still in shrinkwrap and my bookshelves can't hold all the stuff I've accumulated over decades of purchases.

That just means you need more bookshelves.

 

[djotaku]

I need to pare down my collection. At this point I have multiple things from Kickstarter that are still in shrinkwrap and my bookshelves can't hold all the stuff I've accumulated over decades of purchases.

don't 100% know if there's truth to this, but someone claimed either here or on reddit that leaving your books shrink-wrapped can lead to them molding or otherwise getting messed up on the inside. They purported to have 1st hand experience with this. (edit: fix typo)

 

[djotaku]

Can't answer because this hasn't happened to me. I've only been in the hobby around 5 years at this point (give or take a year). While it's technically a cheap hobby - you just need pencil/paper and a free SRD or equivalent - it's expensive if you actually want the prewritten adventures and settings books. So I am very careful in what I buy. Now, I do have a couple digital books I bought from dndbeyond - Staircase and Radiant Citadel - that I haven't run yet because we've had higher priority things to run, but so far I haven't bought anything I hated. I am also planning to buy Daggerheart mostly for the art (which goes against being careful, but I am considering it a coffee table book rather than a TTRPG book). I'd like to run it, but I'm already having trouble finding enough time to run the systems I already own - Tales of the Valiant/D&D, Cosmere, Pathfinder 2e, and Starfinder 2e.