Theo R Cwithin
I cast "Baconstorm!"
Somewhat inspired by MerricB's thread on RPG collections, I got to thinking about just how much RPG stuff I don't have-- and why.
* Do you have a story-- sad, frustrating or amusing-- about gaming stuff gone missing over the years?
* Have you lost gaming materials that were especially important, useful, sentimental or valuable?
To start, here are the couple important or sentimental items I've lost, and how:
- A few years ago, I discovered all my dice had disappeared. For the most part, they're easy enough to replace, except for my very first Red Box polyhedrals (little more than well-worn, crayon-marked nubs of pale blue plastic); and the totally awesome olive, brown and gold paisley fabric bag I kept the whole lot in. Not really sure exaclt how or when I lost them, though: presumably in one of my many moves.
- During a move about 9 years ago, I had packed a box of cheap paperbacks for charity, and an identical box of old gaming materials, including much of the stuff I'd done as a little kid: characters, dungeons, (badly) painted lead minis, alt rules, maps, etc. Guess which box went to Goodwill, and which box ended up at the new apartment....
- Along with other stuff, a laptop of mine was stolen when my apartment was burgled several years ago. Annoyingly, it contained contained a LOT of campaign notes and doodles, as well as some PDFs. I think I've got some of the self-created stuff on a zip disk somewhere-- but that's gone missing, too, of course.
Now I'm curious to hear what all has disappeared from your loot chests over the years....
* Do you have a story-- sad, frustrating or amusing-- about gaming stuff gone missing over the years?
* Have you lost gaming materials that were especially important, useful, sentimental or valuable?
To start, here are the couple important or sentimental items I've lost, and how:
- A few years ago, I discovered all my dice had disappeared. For the most part, they're easy enough to replace, except for my very first Red Box polyhedrals (little more than well-worn, crayon-marked nubs of pale blue plastic); and the totally awesome olive, brown and gold paisley fabric bag I kept the whole lot in. Not really sure exaclt how or when I lost them, though: presumably in one of my many moves.
- During a move about 9 years ago, I had packed a box of cheap paperbacks for charity, and an identical box of old gaming materials, including much of the stuff I'd done as a little kid: characters, dungeons, (badly) painted lead minis, alt rules, maps, etc. Guess which box went to Goodwill, and which box ended up at the new apartment....
- Along with other stuff, a laptop of mine was stolen when my apartment was burgled several years ago. Annoyingly, it contained contained a LOT of campaign notes and doodles, as well as some PDFs. I think I've got some of the self-created stuff on a zip disk somewhere-- but that's gone missing, too, of course.
Now I'm curious to hear what all has disappeared from your loot chests over the years....
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