"Must..have...more...books!"

[DMH]

A FLGS opened here two years ago and I spend, on average, 75-200/month there. I think there are only 2 or 3 people who spend more on gaming stuff (comics is a different story since they have old collectors' stuff).

 

[shadowbloodmoon]

You should put one for $1000 and up.... Now to find a place to put all these boxes with books in them....

 

[arscott]

Purchased in the Last Year:
Unearthed Arcana
Warcraft RPG: Alliance and Horde Compendium
Warcraft RPG: Lands of Conflict

and possibly:
d20Modern RPG
d20M: Urban Arcana
(may have got these in '03)

Mostly at a pretty hefty employee discount, though.

 

[JustKim]

I'm embarrassed the poll only goes up to $251.

 

[ivocaliban]

Wow...I didn't end up being as big a sucker as I thought (at least compared to the numbers):

Unearthed Arcana
Complete Divine
Races of Stone
Libris Mortis
Complete Arcane

and something not from WotC:

Aerial Adventure Guide: Sky Captain's Handbook

That comes out to a book every two months and all of them were discounted 20-30%. Significantly down from 2001-2003 when I was buying everything I could find. I blame part the decline on three things:

1) The realization that I have more than enough books to run D&D games for the rest of my life.
2) The December 2003 purchase of an XBox (followed in March 2004 by XBox LIVE).
3) A general decline in editing and artwork from WotC.

 

[Kvantum]

There really should be an option for "$1000+ - I need more bookcases."

 

[cybertalus]

Not counting SW Minis (and I only bothered with the first set), I'm easily into the top category. Even ignoring the World's Largest Dungeon, I'm still there.

Though a lot of my buying in 2004 was playing catch up. The last couple of 3.0 WotC splatbooks I didn't have, Manual of the Planes, Arms & Equipment, MM 2, the 3.5 core books, Stronghold Builder's Guidebook, Enemies & Allies. I'm still a few 3.0 generic line books short of completing the set, but I dunno if I'll pick those up or not. May try to catch up on FR stuff this year instead.

I keep telling myself I'm only gonna buy one book a month, but that never works. So I guess with that in mind there's something I need to say:

Hi, my name is Talus, and I'm addicted to buying RPG books.

 

[Krieg]

Though a lot of my buying in 2004 was playing catch up. The last couple of 3.0 WotC splatbooks I didn't have, Manual of the Planes, Arms & Equipment, MM 2, the 3.5 core books, Stronghold Builder's Guidebook, Enemies & Allies. I'm still a few 3.0 generic line books short of completing the set, but I dunno if I'll pick those up or not. May try to catch up on FR stuff this year instead.

There are so many worthwhile products out there now that I always feel like I'm playing catch up. lol

 

[painandgreed]

The Black Company book alone put me over $50. Add in about half of my 14 D&D books since I just got back into the game after 3.5 came out in 2003, plus an issue of Dragon and Dungeon every month, and I'm up into the $300's. Throw in the $50 worth of classic 1E modules and books I bought at a comic con. Then add in all the WW new WoD books that have come out and I'm probably running about $500 for 2004. I don't even think that much is all that remarkable. I have friends that have spent that much on those stupid minis alone.

Add in my donation to the EnWorld Server Drive and it would be a chunk more.

 

[Crothian]

There are so many worthwhile products out there now that I always feel like I'm playing catch up. lol

I know what you mean. There are books from a few years ago I'd still like to find to add the collection let alone the new ones coming out.