I have gotten rid of entire collections of game books. At no point has that later been a happy thing. It always makes sense in the moment. Needing more shelf space, not wanting to box up and move hundreds of pounds of books, etc. I always...always regret it later.
And it can be REALLY expensive to get that stuff back.
One of the big reasons I switched predominantly to PDFs. They're cheaper and an external drive is easier to move than a few thousand books. Though I am coming back around to physical products. But only a select few.
I played as a PC in Lankhmar once, and the DM dropped it into his own homebrew. It was a terrible, generic experience, so that left a bad taste in my mouth for the setting. I remember two things, the DM somehow forced the Ranger PC into the city who continuously said they didn't want to be there, so he was traumatized by city life and went psycho and started killing civilians with his polearm. We just wanted to get to the adventure, and I can't remember why but the DM kept beating around the bush and leading us around the city for no reason for about 4 hours. I think he was trying to impress us with the new box set he bought. Eventually one player asked the DM, "Is there an NPC somewhere wearing a sandwich bord that says "Adventure this way"? We never played in Lankhmar again. I saw the box sets in game stores used many times after and never bought it because I was so scarred from that one game session.
The author of the Goodman Games edition is a Fritz Leiber scholar and visited his personal museum and archives as part of his job to write it.
Yeah, it looks like the 90s were just a really hard time for TSR, which certainly fits the known history. It is still surprising to see just how bad some of these numbers were, though. I mean, almost anything after 1994 or even 1992--wow.
