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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ggroy" data-source="post: 5410128" data-attributes="member: 83805">I went through a similar phase a decade later than you, after I got back into rpg games.  Though I haven't went on a massive purge yet.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  (I took a long 15+ year hiatus away from rpg games, where I completely missed 2E AD&D and 3E D&D).  At the time (shortly after 3.5E was released and the d20 bubble had already burst), I picked up all kinds of setting splatbooks from the $5 bargain bins at several gaming stores.  Stuff like Scarred Lands, Oathbound, Kingdoms of Kalamar, etc ...In the end, I never got around to really using many of the d20 bubble era setting splatbooks I picked up.  The only setting books I actually used in a 3.5E game, were ones like the 3E Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide, Underdark, and Castlemourn.  Most of the other 3E/3.5E Forgotten Realms and Eberron splatbooks I picked up, were never used at all in a game.  At best, these setting splatbooks ended up being mostly pleasure reading material.  Though to be frank, reading mediocre D&D novels and/or cheesy D&D comic books would have made better pleasure reading material in comparison.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />At this point I've slowly moved into the "reformed setting junkie" category.  I'll be off the Pathfinder treadmill soon.  Not much point anymore in buying more Golarion splatbooks, when I'm not DMing anything at all these days.  (My 4E Encounters game died yesterday, and my previous 4E D&D game died around a year ago).</blockquote>

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