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

[beta-ray]

Let's just say you're never short of a napkin at A'koss's house.

Or toilet paper

As for me, some of them (2ed or other RPGs) have been sold, some donated to the library, and some kept... I haven't upgraded to 3.5 though

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Saved my 3.0 corebooks. Looking for the right someone to give them to.

As for my 1E/2E books, my mother made me sell them to the used bookstore when I was in junior high. Trust me, I'm going to take that into account when she's old and feeble.

It's the nursing home for her! Bwah ha ha!

 

[MrFilthyIke]

Saved my 3.0 corebooks. Looking for the right someone to give them to.

As for my 1E/2E books, my mother made me sell them to the used bookstore when I was in junior high. Trust me, I'm going to take that into account when she's old and feeble.

It's the nursing home for her! Bwah ha ha!

I hear you...

But I won the war with my parents in junoir/high school...

*eyes 5 bookselves full of games*

 

[Altalazar]

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

AD&D 1E, 2E, 3E. 3.5E, and a bunch of D20 stuff.

Shadowrun Fills a shelf of its own.

Greyhawk, Ravenloft, FR, Modules, etc.

Every issue of SR, Dragon, and Dungeon.

Notebooks and binders full of all of my characters and campaign material from over the years.

I have all of the 1E hardcover, most of the 2E stuff (until it went crazy) and all of the 3E stuff.

I like having it all in a nice library. Though I seldom refer to the old stuff, it is there, at my fingertips. I couldn't stand to have it put away elsewhere. I love bookshelves full of books. I'll probably run out of room soon - I have a few empty shelves on one of the cases, but that is filling up fast.

 

[Henry]

So what did you do with your old D&D rulebooks after(if) you got revised edition?

I took them to my game the next week, because I STILL haven't bought the new ones.

 

[Carnifex]

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

AD&D 1E, 2E, 3E. 3.5E, and a bunch of D20 stuff.

Shadowrun Fills a shelf of its own.

Greyhawk, Ravenloft, FR, Modules, etc.

Every issue of SR, Dragon, and Dungeon.

Notebooks and binders full of all of my characters and campaign material from over the years.

I have all of the 1E hardcover, most of the 2E stuff (until it went crazy) and all of the 3E stuff.

I like having it all in a nice library. Though I seldom refer to the old stuff, it is there, at my fingertips. I couldn't stand to have it put away elsewhere. I love bookshelves full of books. I'll probably run out of room soon - I have a few empty shelves on one of the cases, but that is filling up fast.

And Altazar's amazing powers of thread necromancy raise another shambling thread from the grave!

 

[Altalazar]

And Altazar's amazing powers of thread necromancy raise another shambling thread from the grave!

You seem to be strangely limited in your concept of threads - I read through them all (and I was away for a year so I missed a lot) and if there is something interesting to me, something I have something to say about, I post.

For some reason, you and others feel the need to point this out. It was mildly amusing the first time - but the 12th time it is just sort of a waste of bandwidth.

Besides, which is better - to post on-topic in an old thread, or to start a new thread on exactly the same topic and end up rehashing a ton of stuff that is already on here?

Now shoo, before I send my animated undead-thread minions after you!

 

[Arnwyn]

I'm pretty much paraphrasing Psion here, but it applies to me as well.

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

 

[Carnifex]

You seem to be strangely limited in your concept of threads - I read through them all (and I was away for a year so I missed a lot) and if there is something interesting to me, something I have something to say about, I post.

For some reason, you and others feel the need to point this out. It was mildly amusing the first time - but the 12th time it is just sort of a waste of bandwidth.

Besides, which is better - to post on-topic in an old thread, or to start a new thread on exactly the same topic and end up rehashing a ton of stuff that is already on here?

Now shoo, before I send my animated undead-thread minions after you!

I haven't done it 12 times, just 3 or 4 (two of which have been just now). I hadn't noticed other people doing it. It just amuses me when I see a spate of threads that give me a flash of deja vu for a moment before I take a look and see you've recently returned them from the oblivion of the thread backlog. I wasn't aware that you'd been away for a year and were catching up, so it seemed a rather random thing to do; appearing as a chaotic dredging up, as it were, rather than a systematic appraisal of old threads

I remember reading a thread a bit back that I was sure seemed to cover similar ground to one I'd read ages ago, only to find - half way down a page - that I'd actually posted to it - but couldn't for the life of me remember when. Until I figured to look at the date of the post, that had me very confused

 

[Altalazar]

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...

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