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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 3721184" data-attributes="member: 32740">Near the end of the 1E era I was packing my harbacks in a big, grey, hardside briefcase along with fat folders full of maps, modules, house rules and whatnot.  When one of the reasons for the 2E revision was stated to be "cutting down on the books" I was all for it.Of course the gawdawful stack of 2E books I wound up with later was worse - except that I never bothered to be packing them all to a game.  I was fortunate enough to have most of the games I ran to be taking place at home, not on the road.  Towards the end we were playing at the conference table in an office for the business owned by one of the players.  We kept a shelf unit full of all the miscellaneous books, miniatures, dwarven forge pieces, etc.  Made it really convenient.For 3E the books again started out with just the core 3 so it was easier again to take the game on the road.  That did change but not too badly as I never invested too heavily in options books for 3E and never felt the need to burden myself with toting them to games when I DID buy them.These days my only real burden is the 5 or 6 cases of minis that I don't want to be without.  I can live quite happily using a battlemat instead of dwarven forge (though they ARE preferred when practical) and the mat gets used for everything NOT dungeon anyway.  Rules books I use are just the core and maybe one or two others I'm making immediate use of for an adventure.  Players keep copies of books they need to reference and they actually have a worse time of it for that reason.  All the books are for THEIR characters - not my NPC's, or I simply use their books rather than mine which remain at home.  When I do feel the need to bring lots of books somewhere I use luggage of an appropriate size.I don't have a bad back so I use small duffel bags or totes, but they put wheels on a lot more such things these days.  Should it come to that, that's what I'd invest in myself.Still, one of the things I look forward to for 4E is another round of rules simplification/book reduction for a while.</blockquote>

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