What did you do with your old D&D rulebooks?

[diaglo]

I'm keeping them to reference information that they botched in the revision.

i plan on using mine. b/c they keep messing stuff up with each new revision and edition.

Original D&D (1974) is the one true game. All the other editions are just poor imitations of the real thing.

 

[Henry]

I don't mind a bit of thread necromancy myself; it's only when they get to be too much, themselves crowding out newer threads that the mods ask to law low on them. That's not an issue so far.

So far, I've seen multiple people posts to each of these, meaning that either people have more to say about the topic, or there are people who didn't see it two or three months ago when it was around the first time.

 

[PowerWordDumb]

Oh, I wasn't referring to you, in particular - Hong and others have partaken of the pastime of pointless posts about "dead" threads - as if a thread can ever "die" - I wonder if many "live" threads are just pushed off the main page by innane posts until they are rediscovered by an explorer such as myself...

Back to digging...

I don't think you're doing anything *wrong* per se by posting to old threads... but I do understand people complaining about it. For many of us, threads this old are essentially long-finished conversations, and having them brought back out to the front page with the attendant assumption that they are new conversations, can give you a sort of cognitive whiplash. It's disorienting and wierd to suddenly find yourself back in the middle of a conversation you 'finished' several months back.

In a strange way, it's like fighting with your wife - stuff that's dead & gone *always* seems to find a way to come back to hurt you when you least expect it.

 

[Joseph Elric Smith]

They are all neatly arranged, in order, on various shelves. I have two full-sized, five shelf bookcases completely filled with gaming stuff.

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Only 2 book shelves, I didn't; realize you where new to gaming

My wife gave me the all the wall space of the dinning room and computer room for my gaming shelves at 9 book shelves and need more
and that is not counting the two book shelves of books I have in the living room
Ken

 

[Altalazar]

I don't think you're doing anything *wrong* per se by posting to old threads... but I do understand people complaining about it. For many of us, threads this old are essentially long-finished conversations, and having them brought back out to the front page with the attendant assumption that they are new conversations, can give you a sort of cognitive whiplash. It's disorienting and wierd to suddenly find yourself back in the middle of a conversation you 'finished' several months back.

In a strange way, it's like fighting with your wife - stuff that's dead & gone *always* seems to find a way to come back to hurt you when you least expect it.

I can understand that - but you seem to make the assumption that everyone reads and posts to the board every day and that there are no new posters - neither of which, I suspect, is true. So there could be lots of threads that lots of people who haven't yet seen them, and have something to say about them - just because the people who live their lives here are "done" with the topics doesn't mean the rest of the world is.

 

[ejja_1]

well the 1st ed stuff I replaced after my aunt burned the originals, are all sitting in my big box o gamming stuff in my dungeon. There are about 14 modules, dmg, players, monster manual,fiend folio, monster manual 2 and unearthed arcana. As well as 3 grimtooths traps books all falling apart at the binding, and a copy of Wabbits wampage and a few old books from the toon series.
Oh yeah and a copy of teenagers from outer space!

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Well my old boxed sets were all lost sometime five or six years ago, but I've at least got the rule books for the 1980 expert and basic set with the Otis covers over there. I use my 1e books. The three "core" 2e books I bought were stolen not too long after I bought them when they first came out and I never replaced them. I'm thinking of selling my whole 3e collection on E-bay though. I'm not sure how much I could get for them though. Since I've got ealier editions of the game and don't plan on DM'ing it again I might as well get rid of them. If I ever get into someone elses 3e game I'll just get a 3.5 handbook or the SRD.

 

[kirinke]

i actually...

i actually have the first edition monsters manual with tiamat and bahuma. YAY! just up it a bit and you got the staties for 3e. and demons.... gotta love demons.

i don't throw anything away. ^_^

 

[WayneLigon]

I still have them. I doubt I could get much for them off eBay, even though they're still in very good condition. (Heck, even my first printing 1E book still has tight covers and intact pages). The library is a good idea but (1)I have no guarentee they'd put it on the shelf instead of selling it in the next book sale and (2) it does a diservice to the kid that checks it out then tries to find other people to play with. Since probably there won't be any.

 

[johnsemlak]

Placed them on the shelf next to the first and second edition D&D books.

Ditto, though I have loaned one to a friend (actually, a child-student of mine) interested in the game.