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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 4623886" data-attributes="member: 31216">I often see people around here mention how many books they own of a particular D&D edition. Although I don’t see anyone really getting into a “my collection is bigger than your collection” battle, mentioning one’s collection size does seem to be used as evidence of one’s interest in the edition.That is, owning 50 books means you are more hardcore into the game than someone who just owns the core three. Also, owning many third party books means you support the industry.I’m wondering, is my perception the actual case – owning more books is supposed to show one’s hardcoreness in the game – or am I reading more into the library-size claim than is meant?See, I consider myself a hardcore D&D gamer. I LOVE D&D in general. D&D3 is my preferred edition of the game, but I own only five hardcover D&D3 books* (which I only regularly use the core three) and maybe ten D&D3 adventure modules (which I have used none as a DM). I own far, far more AD&D1 material (most of which I have used in games), even though I haven’t played it in almost 15 years. But even my collection of AD&D1 is not nearly complete.A funny thing is that I often find myself reading discussions around here that I can’t follow because I don’t own all the books being mentioned. For instance, all the Pun-Pun stuff is gibberish, and meaningless, to me (Is there anything about Pun-Pun that comes from the core books?).So, do you see the size of someone’s library as evidence or a reflection of their interest or hardcoreness in the game? Does owning more books give one’s opinion on an edition more weight? Should it?Also, if you have a large collection of books, do you buy books to use or do you buy the books as a collector?*Not counting duplicates of the core three for updating from 3.0 to 3.5.Bullgrit<a href="http://www.totalbullgrit.com" target="_blank">Total Bullgrit</a></blockquote>

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