Sell/Give Away Dem Books! Forked Thread: Did You Buy the First Three 4e Core Books?

[Shroomy]

I rarely get rid of anything, especially my RPG books. The last thing that I sold were a bunch of WEG Star Wars sourcebooks that I hadn't looked at in 15 years, but if I hated something, I'd just sell it or give it to a friend. However, with one exception, none of the of the LGSs in my area purchase or sell used games, so if I was going to sell anything I would have to go to Half Price Books or one of the local used stores (none of which have any 4e books btw, even though I was looking to perhaps buy a cheap 2nd PHB).

 

[Rechan]

If you are contemplating selling or giving away your core rulebooks, consider donating them to military personnel.

 

[Treebore]

Pretty much everything is usable with C&C, so no reason to get rid of anything. Plus I haven't bought any 4E rule books, just the starter set, and Goodman DCC 53, 54, and 55 are in my possession, and all of these are usable in C&C as well.

Even if I did, I'm sure I would find things worth stealing out of them at some time.

 

[S'mon]

I've given away a bunch of stuff to my local animal farm's charity bookshop, but not 4e - I gave away various d20 dreck, notably Bruce Baugh's terrible d20 Gamma World books I'd bought cut-price from Orcs' Nest, and the Sovereign Stone and Kalamar sourcebooks.

 

[Thanee]

I mean, do people just keep books that they hate?

I tend not to buy such books in the first place.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Rechan beat me to it!

As for me, the only games I don't like that I have kept are a GURPS basic book (plus some supplements) and 4Ed. Every other one has been donated to the troops or was sold so I could buy stuff to donate to the troops.

Why keep the ones I did?

GURPS was the game I was most likely to be invited to play in the 1990s.

4Ed is the game I'm most likely to be invited to play in the future.

 

[S'mon]

My games club mostly plays 4e, so I may well have use for my 4e PHB in the future. And I really don't think I've fully studied 4e DMG & MM yet. Who knows, I may even run it some time! And it cost me £40. Most of the rubbish I buy, like d20 Gamma World, is severely discounted, like £5 or £7 instead of £20+, so I had a fair idea it might not be great. I'm a bit unhappy with my £18 copy of StarSIEGE though, kinda wishing I'd gone for Mongoose Traveller instead, which people are raving over.

BTW I sold a bunch of stuff on amazon, for lighter books it works out well. Their standard £2.75 p&p does not cover the cost of posting a fat hardback though.

 

[jokamachi]

I still have a small stack of 4e player's handbooks I got as a playtester and have yet to sell on eBay. I don't hate 4e, I hate the fact that it's taking up space in my otherwise cramped house.

 

[timbannock]

I tend not to buy such books in the first place.

Bye
Thanee

Me too, though I sell off what I don't use after a while (mostly trades with Noble Knight Games or sell on ebay).

I once bought a copy of the Wildside Fantasy Roleplay System (which I helped playtest). My friends and I hated the game so much (obviously, they didn't listen to my advice from the playtest reviews) that we brought it along on a camping trip and burned the book.

100% worth every second of it going up in flames. My friends that smoke used the burning pages to light cigars.

Betcha not many people have done that one!!

 

[Psion]

I have a lot of books I could ebay, but I typically don't find it worth the effort.