What is/are your most recent TTRPG purchase(s)?

[Thomas Shey]

Once you start buying used books that you once owned and got rid of, you have earned the title "grognard" as far as I'm concerned.

How about purchasing PDFs of game that you (may) still have a physical copy of?

 

[Eyes of Nine]

How about purchasing PDFs of game that you (may) still have a physical copy of?

That's called "Practical"

 

[MNblockhead]

I use external hard drives and to keep the content current with each. One is in my safe, the other attached to my desktop. If I want to access something away from home, I transfer a copy of it to my Kindle.

I get very nervous with hard drives. At least you have two. I would still find affordable, secure cloud archive storage. Though taking on another subscription just to protect digital game assets may not be a investment. But I can't help it. I'm a belt & suspenders on overalls kinda guy.

 

[MNblockhead]

No doubt. I back up all of my PDFs on One Drive, Google Drive, my NAS, and two external USB hard drives.

What?! You're not burning your precious digital game assets to M-DISC? Do you not think of your descendants hundreds of years from now?!

 

[cbwjm]

What?! You're not burning your precious digital game assets to M-DISC? Do you not think of your descendants hundreds of years from now?!

I had to look up what M-DISC was and I expect that people in the future are going to be accessing it in public or university libraries in a similar way to us using microfiche to read an article from the 1800s due to the general lack of dvd and blue-ray technology.

 

[MNblockhead]

I had to look up what M-DISC was and I expect that people in the future are going to be accessing it in public or university libraries in a similar way to us using microfiche to read an article from the 1800s due to the general lack of dvd and blue-ray technology.

Hmmm...good point. Guess I'll need to print all my PDFs to archival quality acid-free paper, organized in archival envelopes and archival storage boxes. But where to store?

We need a new reality TV series: "Doomsday Collectors."

 

[MNblockhead]

How about purchasing PDFs of game that you (may) still have a physical copy of?

I do that far too often, far too recently to feel grognardy about it. Cubicle7 had made a lot of money off of my compulsion to buy material in multiple formats because of prefer different formats for different things.

"Oh cool, they have these books and adventure available for Foundry! I can just do everything there."
"Ooo, the book looks cool. Trying to read through a 'book' pulled apart into different journals and items isn't a satisfactory way to read through content."
"Hmmm...physical books are great for sitting down and reading or paging through to enjoy the art, but when prepping a game, it can be helpful to see how things are formatted and having more content density and having that content placed in context, but I still want to search, create bookmarks and be able to write notes on the pages without defacing my physical book. Of to buy the PDF!"

I think true grognards observing my content purchases would throw their books with metal-corner-protectors, and removable book tabs, at me.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I get very nervous with hard drives. At least you have two. I would still find affordable, secure cloud archive storage. Though taking on another subscription just to protect digital game assets may not be a investment. But I can't help it. I'm a belt & suspenders on overalls kinda guy.

That's why a lot of my stuff is actually in three places (though honestly, the only portable drive I've ever had go was the one I dropped).

 

[Thomas Shey]

I do that far too often, far too recently to feel grognardy about it. Cubicle7 had made a lot of money off of my compulsion to buy material in multiple formats because of prefer different formats for different things.

Same. Bundle of Holding hasn't helped me here either.

"Oh cool, they have these books and adventure available for Foundry! I can just do everything there."
"Ooo, the book looks cool. Trying to read through a 'book' pulled apart into different journals and items isn't a satisfactory way to read through content."
"Hmmm...physical books are great for sitting down and reading or paging through to enjoy the art, but when prepping a game, it can be helpful to see how things are formatted and having more content density and having that content placed in context, but I still want to search, create bookmarks and be able to write notes on the pages without defacing my physical book. Of to buy the PDF!"

I think true grognards observing my content purchases would throw their books with metal-corner-protectors, and removable book tabs, at me.

I just turned 67 and started the hobby with OD&D. I can probably sneer at those people in good conscience.

 

[MNblockhead]

That's why a lot of my stuff is actually in three places (though honestly, the only portable drive I've ever had go was the one I dropped).

I have only dropped one drive my entire life. Was working in a part of the world where we didn't have ready access to electronic store and certainly no online order and delivery. I brought back a new external hard drive from Germany. I needed to shuttle a sizable amount of data and didn't have an external hard drive with sufficient capacity. I asked if I could borrow his. He let me but with a warning to be careful. Of course, later that very day I dropped it and it was damaged enough that it didn't work. I had to scramble to work with some local staff to find a replacement, which cost many times what it would have cost in the US and then suffer the embarrassment of explaining to my colleague what happened. After removing it from its case and degaussing it, I kept it on my desk to use a kind of fidget spinner when on long calls.