Shrink your collection to the essentials. What makes the cut?

[Reynard]

The best moving boxes for RPG books are Diamond comic shop boxes. New comic day is Wednesday. Go in Monday or Tuesday and ask if you can have their boxes. Most shop owners are fine with it. They end up in the recycling bin anyway.

I discovered today that magazine storage boxes are perfect for RPGs as well

 

[jdrakeh]

Hmmm.

My PDF archive (on external HDD).
My iPad Air (for reading said PDFs).
A set of polyhedral dice.
A block of six-sided dice.

 

[jdrakeh]

Also, important safety tip: DO NOT fill a "medium" Home Depot box with RPG hardcovers and expect to lift it without injury.

Back when I was moving my then sizeable RPG collection across the country, I used these (collapsible, stackable, rigid, file boxes with wheels and handles).

 

[thullgrim]

If I had to go through this exercise, and it may come to that as we are thinking about downsizing, these are the no doubt I’m keeping them.

Physical books:

• SWADE core + Companions
• PF1 core rulebook + Bestiary 1
• GURPS Characters + Campaigns + Powers
• Earthdawn 1e core + Barsaive and Parlainth box sets (boxes packed with additional splays of course)

I would still have a little room on my single shelf of books for a couple of stragglers.

 

[thullgrim]

If I had to go through this exercise, and it may come to that as we are thinking about downsizing, these are the no doubt I’m keeping them.

Physical books:

• SWADE core + Companions
• PF1 core rulebook + Bestiary 1
• GURPS Characters + Campaigns + Powers
• Earthdawn 1e core + Barsaive and Parlainth box sets (boxes packed with additional splays of course)

I would still have a little room on my single shelf of books for a couple of stragglers.

Missed one. Blades in the Dark would also have to be on the shelf.

Stragglers would be
IC RPG or Crown and Skull or both
Numenera core slipcover

 

[Cadence]

So, lets pretend you are downsizing, in a major way, like, going from a house, to a single bedroom, maybe even studio apartment, or a tiny house.

You are a discerning geek, and you love your various games and media. You'll have a TV/Computer, likely internet, but it may be that you are offline and using things like DVD's, assuming such things even exist anymore, as I do not know the last time I bought one...anyway.

What makes the cut, what is on your geek Mount Rushmore of product? Go over 4 if you like.

Examples would include for me.

LotR
Dragonlance: Chronicles/Legends for nostalgic reasons.
The Matrix 1
Shadowdark

What comics/books/movies/tabletop or paper games, do you think are either foundational and still hold up, or represent a 'peak' representation of the craft?

Assuming I have a lot of things stored on a portable hard drive (which includes my 40 years of Avengers comics DVD and lots of ttrpg gaming stuff), have my Amazon/Netflix/DND Beyond accounts, and I load up my kindle with books... and assuming it is just geeky stuff (so I don't need to worry about my Nero Wolfe books or the Christmas movies, and we have a deck of playing cards)...

The JLA/Avengers Hardcover
Into the Borderlands by Goodman Games
My big box of the Ascension deck building game
A two row box of MtG cards with all of the essential EDH staples
My framed 1966 Avengers T-shirt
My original art page from Avengers 197

Augh... this is hard to do! Do I really not get to keep a hardcopy of Watchmen? Or my really pretty hardback of the Silmarillion, or my paper copies of everything by Glen Cook? The signed and numbered Charles Vess print and all of the George Perez posters (two of them signed)!?!?

If we're essentially talking dessert Island livng with no portable hard drive, Kindle, or Amazon/Netflix/DND Beyond or whatever, but still have the DVD player and computer for some reason, and we're restricting it to geeky, and I really only get four:

Watchmen
Silmarillion
The two row box of MtG cards with all of the essential EDH staples
Ack, and I need a single ttRPG book - the PF 1e Core book

 

[Scribe]

Watchmen
Silmarillion
The two row box of MtG cards with all of the essential EDH staples
Ack, and I need a single ttRPG book - the PF 1e Core book

Strong list. I think I need to get the PF1 core in print again.

 

[CleverNickName]

The bare-bones essentials? Right now, at this very moment? for me and my gaming group? We would need four things.

• The 5E core rulebooks, because that's the game we're running.
• "Tasha's Cauldron of Everything," because half my party is using custom ancestries and subclasses therein. There are a few spells and feats from "Xanathar's Guide to Everything," but everything we need has been copied onto the character sheets...the book is obsolete for the moment.
• "Original Adventures Reincarnated: The Isle of Dread" by Goodman Games, because that's our current adventure. I've heavily revised it, adding in about five different factions and three different large-scale quests, and rewrote the whole reason for being here...but I still need this for the monsters, encounter tables, maps, and other stuff.
• My notebook, because my memory isn't what it used to be.

Obviously pencils, dice, character sheets, etc., but I assume those are already counted.

 

[Cadence]

I've carried around a copy of Starfleet Battles for decades and can't remember the last time I played it. I loved the game though.

I still have a bunch of the rule books in a ring binder and some really badly painted Lyran ships in a box downstairs. I don't think I played in person since maybe 1987, and tried a bit of play by post after that.

 

[Scribe]

The two row box of MtG cards with all of the essential EDH staples

Now I'm stuck thinking I need to build a cube...