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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ragnar_Deerslayer" data-source="post: 4026185" data-attributes="member: 11990">For real.  I was just sitting there, and then suddenly, CRUNCHCRUMBLEBLAM!It was one of those cheap Wal-Mart particleboard bookcases, but had held up for over six months, so I thought it was good.  It was completely full – it held my entire RPG collection, and only my RPG collection.  I had tried to put most of my big hardbacks on the bottom and the lighter boxed sets near the top (it was a 6' bookcase), but I guess that only postponed the inevitable.  The little fasteners holding it together were just plain ripped out of the boards.Most of my books seem to be in pretty good condition.  My Planescape boxed sets were undamaged, but my Dark Sun 1st edition boxed set was torn, as was my Deluxe Traveller Boxed set (with all the little black books).  *cry*I'm trying to process this.  I'm uncertain whether to take this as a Sign that the cheap cardboard construction that suffices for mainstream America simply collapses under the passion I have for RPGs, or whether my passion has become an obsession that my life is collapsing under.Either way, let my life serve as a warning to you all!Ragnar[crossposted to RPG.net]</blockquote>