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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 5012448" data-attributes="member: 31216">Regarding the warehouse full of 80s rule books:About ten years ago, my mother called me at work to tell me that she had just come across a large collection of D&D books in a second-hand book store. She didn't know anything about D&D books, but she knew that I liked them.She wanted to know if I wanted her to buy any of these books -- maybe they were old/valuable/collectable. She tried to tell me what the books were, and I tried to tell her what to look for (copyright dates, etc.). I couldn't get a sense of what she was looking at, and she couldn't find any names I was mentioning.In the end, she just bought six different books that looked interesting to her. When she gave them to me a few weeks later, I was surprised. I didn't recognize a single title.They were all TSR D&D books, copyrighted from the late 80s to the mid 90s, but they were just nothing to me. I thanked my mom for buying them (she wouldn't take money for them -- they had been cheap to buy), but I literally ended up throwing them all away.Note that I don't generally throw books away. I had never before thrown away a single D&D book. I have not since thrown away a single D&D book. That's sacrilege. I kept these books in my collection for weeks before finally deciding that they were just taking up space -- they had no value to me or my collection.So I can imagine what the books in that warehouse might have looked like. From the sample that I saw, there were indeed some worthless books produced in the (late) 80s and 90s.Edit: Note that "80s D&D rule book" does not necessarily mean "Player's Handbook" or DMG or MM. There were a lot of D&D rule books in the 80s and 90s.Bullgrit</blockquote>

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