RPG Collecting

[Erik Mona]

I collect books about RPGs and gamers. Within certain criteria, this collection is complete: I have every book on the subject.

Does your book collection include "Shared Fantasy," by Gary Alan Fine? I cited that book in a couple papers for college. Basically, it's a sociological study of 1980s roleplaying gamers. Pretty interesting, if a bit dated. Well worth tracking down. Fine, incidentally, is a fairly well respected sociologist these days. I've seen his byline in several reputable magazines.

--Erik Mona
Editor-in-Chief
Dragon & Dungeon

 

[MrFilthyIke]

Does your book collection include "Shared Fantasy," by Gary Alan Fine? I cited that book in a couple papers for college. Basically, it's a sociological study of 1980s roleplaying gamers. Pretty interesting, if a bit dated. Well worth tracking down. Fine, incidentally, is a fairly well respected sociologist these days. I've seen his byline in several reputable magazines.

Nice tidbit Erik, I took some socio classes while getting my anthro degree...will need to look him up.

 

[Tetsubo]

I've been gaming since 1978 and collecting as much as I could afford. I have six bookcases of gaming materials. There are 80+ boxed sets alone. Gaming books are the only new books I buy anymore. All of my non-fiction purchasing is done on the cheap. I definitely consider myself a collector of RPG's. Heck I've bought things just because I thought "they need a home"...

 

[IronWolf]

I am not really a collector, I tend to buy books I want to use and to have on hand for reference. I pass on books that don't interest me and do not feel the need to add them to my collection. I am a bit of a pack rat though and I still have all my original D&D and AD&D books as well as some of the books from other systems I dabbled in a long time back.

 

[cmanos]

Playing Warhammer IS a collection!!!

 

[francisca]

Does your book collection include "Shared Fantasy," by Gary Alan Fine? I cited that book in a couple papers for college. Basically, it's a sociological study of 1980s roleplaying gamers. Pretty interesting, if a bit dated. Well worth tracking down. Fine, incidentally, is a fairly well respected sociologist these days. I've seen his byline in several reputable magazines.

--Erik Mona
Editor-in-Chief
Dragon & Dungeon

I got a copy of that in a box, somewhere. I picked it up at a half-priced bookstore in 2001 or 2002, and haven't read it yet. It's in the same box as Gygax's "Master of the Game" and "Roleplaying Mastery", still unpacked in my home office after my last move.

Looks like I need to do some digging.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

I have 29 banker's boxes of D&D roleplaying products. Could be more if I boxed of the piles of D&D stuff sitting around my desk .

I was big into certian settings.
I own complete Dark Sun collection (even all novels). Complete al-Qadim. Complete Birthright (even the novels). Complete Spelljammer (even the novels). Complete Taladas (even an ordinary Book of Lairs for Dragonlance that included 2 encounters on Taladas). Never cared about the rest of Dragonlance beyond the first six novels.

Complete Mystara (including complete Hollow World, Savage Coast, Blackmoor, and every BXCMI adventure.) Even the novels.

Complete FR up until The North boxed set, and then I gave up on the collector aspect, only buying what I really really had an interest in. I even have a copy of the first newsletter TSR sent out for FR fans... that was eventually cancelled after the first issue.

Complete Greyhawk (all novels except Quag Keep). Although I haven't gotten the Sagard books... Hey! did you know Return to Quag Keep will be release next year?! ...

Of all of these I even own all Dungeon issues with setting specific adventures.

I have tons of other settings materials, but just not complete collections... and I don't care to try. But I am getting all Eberron stuff so far.

The only other RPGs I had complete collections for were Car Wars, and BattleTech up until FASA closed down. Scatterings of other RPGs, I'm trying to get a complete collection of Harn, for instance. There are two D20 settings I own complete sets of: Fading Suns and Darwin's World.


Regards,
Eric Anondson (Do I have an addiction? )

 

[Dragonblade]

I collect the games that I like and want to play. I don't buy games that I have no interest in playing. However, I do like to collect RPG stuff in general and have amassed a fairly substanstial RPG library over the past 18 years I have been gaming that includes the following:

All 1st Edition D&D hardbound sourcebooks (except the 1st Ed PHB, MM2, and Fiend Folio)
All 2nd Ed hardbound rulebooks and most of the Complete series
Every Spelljammer boxed set
All Al-Qadim products
Almost all 2nd Ed Forgotten Realms boxed sets and books
All Dark Sun products (including all novels)
All WEG d6 SW hardbound books
All WotC d20 SW books (except Tempest Feud)
All Wotc 3.0 books and splats (except some of the original adventure modules)
All WotC 3.5 core hardbound rulebooks (except the new "Races of..." series and the monster books like Libris Mortis)
All WotC 3.0 and 3.5 Forgotten Realms
All Spycraft and Shadowforce Archer
All 5th Edition HERO (except the adventures)
All M&M and Freedom City (except Noir and Nocturnals)
All WW Street Fighter RPG books (out of print and super rare)
All Mekton Z RPG books (the best anime/mech game I've ever seen)
All core Top Secret/SI (TSR spy RPG)
Rules Cyclopedia (essentially all Basic D&D rules and products compiled in one book)
All Dragon magazines since the first issue based on 3.0 rules

I also used to have an extensive Palladium collection but sold it all last year, it probably cut about 20% off my RPG library. I once had the following:

All Rifts
All TMNT RPG
All Robotech RPG
All Heroes Unlimited
All Macross RPG
All Beyond the Supernatural
Some Palladium Fantasy and assorted other Palladium RPG books like Ninjas and Superspies.

I also own an assortment of other RPGs products picked up along the way that are too numerous to list (Planescape, Eberron, Stargate d20, Hackmaster, various GURPS, Warhammer FRP, Marvel SAGA, Birthright, numerous OGL and d20 books such as Complete Eldritch Might, Relics and Rituals, Dragonstar, etc.). I don't own complete sets of any of those though.

 

[Pinotage]

Does anybody actually have a list of all D&D procucts ever released? I'd be interested in such a list, particularly a 3e/3.5e list.

Pinotage

 

[diaglo]

Does anybody actually have a list of all D&D procucts ever released? I'd be interested in such a list, particularly a 3e/3.5e list.

no.

partially cuz no one can agree what is and isn't a D&D product.

i have mayfair games, flying buffalo, judges guild, harn/columbia games, etc... stuff for 1edADnD. which isn't "official" for the most part. but is "compatiable" with ADnD.