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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bento" data-source="post: 2824558" data-attributes="member: 36597">Davemeister84,I've been in the somewhat same boat - not too long ago I was the sponsor of a college gaming club and I purchased them a collection of RPG books.  I don't know how much money you have to spend, and it sounds like you have a lot of things covered (WW, Md20, etc.,) that aren't being touched.  As expensive as RPG books can be, have you asked your club members what they would like?  You might find some games being played that you may not know about.  Rifts (Palladium) and Starship Troopers (Mongoose) were flying under my radar but both had devoted groups to it.  You might find the same with GURPS (Steve Jackson Games), Star Wars or Traveller.  In other words, find a GM to champion it or the book will probably sit and collect dust.  As for D&D, I've found the "Complete" series, "Heroes of" series and Environment books from WoTC to be popular.  There's enough for players to get use from and GMs (and burgeoning GMs) to get ideas for new adventures. I recently read in another thread on this board (prior to the re-boot) about theft of RPG books, and there were a couple of stories from college groups how this absolutely devastated their collections.  It's easy for an anonymous person to put 8-10 books into a backpack and walk to the nearest used bookstore.  When I purchased the books for the college group I bought only five to six new titles at a time.  They also went into the university library collection (I was the library director), so they were being "checked in" and "checked out" in a system that could track who had it. You might talk to the library director and see if they can support your collection.  Even if you don't use your campus library, get a stamp made "Property of XYZ University Gaming Club" and use it throughout the book (not just on one page that someone can rip out).Good luck and happy gaming!-bento</blockquote>

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