TSR What is your physical old school module/adventure filing system?

[Greggy C]

Assuming you have built a collection over time. The older modules aren't books of course, they are super thin and so you need some system to be able to find the ones you are looking for.

Some options perhaps you could do them all by published year.

Another option by name (ignoring the word The I suppose?)

What is your filing system?

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Is this a question?

You file old school modules alphabetically based on their module code. A series, B series, etc.

What do you do with modules after 1994 without a module code? You burn them.

 

[Greggy C]

funny stuff, so module code, then year or name hmm

 

[Jer]

I have them on my bookshelves. Modules are on the same shelves as the edition they belong to organized by code (so all of the A series are together on the 1e shelf, all of the B series are together on the B/X BECMI shelf, etc.) Setting-tied adventures are grouped with their setting books where applicable (Planescape books together, Ravenloft together, etc.)

For 3rd party adventures they're either at the end of the grouping for the edition they were created for or, for the ones that are fragile, in a box. The old Judges Guild stuff I have is all on paper with no cardboard so anything like that has to lie flat in a box on a different shelf because I'm worried about it tearing.

 

[guachi]

Module Code.

Though if they are BECMI modules they go in that order and not alphabetical.

 

[Voadam]

I have things grouped by edition and then setting and then 3rd party for some of those as well (my Mayfair Games Role Aids AD&D modules and sourcebooks are all together for instance). This applies for both physical on the shelf modules and my PDFs in folders. Physically trilogies and series (like the Slaver A series) are together but otherwise not a lot of organization below the edition and setting level. My physical AD&D Ravenloft stuff (I have a decent physical collection) is all in a drawer with modules, Van Richten's Guides, and sourcebooks like Darklords all mixed in. When I was running a gothic horror 5e game recently I flipped through the drawer to pick out stuff like my Van Richten's Guides to use as info and props and was able to get them reasonably quickly.

 

[Bedrockgames]

I have no system. Books are scattered in all kinds of shelves and spaces

 

[aco175]

I got rid of most of my older stuff and I may have a few old modules and Dungeon magazines still in a box someplace with some binders of play material.

I used to keep all the campaign adventures that I made in a binder so that we could go over them at the end of a campaign or have them on the shelf to look at at some point, but never did. They did not make the move, but I saved the PC sheets that I have in one binder.

 

[Maxperson]

I'm going to give every OCD person here fits. I just group them by editions in no particular order. And heck, they're mixed in with all the books which are also in no particular order.

 

[Tonguez]

What they’re not all in a box in a wardrobe at your mothers house?

 

[MNblockhead]

Getting drunk and crying in the dark thinking about the fact that I traded all my OD&D and 1e stuff in 1990 for a crate of mead and wine.

 

[J.Quondam]

I'm going to give every OCD person here fits. I just group them by editions in no particular order. And heck, they're mixed in with all the books which are also in no particular order.

Please keep things alphabetized! Call it "CDO".

 

[Greggy C]

Getting drunk and crying in the dark thinking about the fact that I traded all my OD&D and 1e stuff in 1990 for a crate of mead and wine.

I never had a crazy amount of 1e/2e stuff, but it didn't follow me around the world, hence rebuilding now.

I think I miss the solid lead miniatures the most.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Surprisingly terrible for someone that used to be a librarian! I roughly organize by edition (2e in one spot, BECMI in another, etc.). The stuff I'm actively running gets assigned to a different shelf. That's about it.

What is your filing system?

My brother once traded his entire 40K Harlequin army for a single Sisters of Mercy t-shirt.

Getting drunk and crying in the dark thinking about the fact that I traded all my OD&D and 1e stuff in 1990 for a crate of mead and wine.

 

[GreyLord]

Getting drunk and crying in the dark thinking about the fact that I traded all my OD&D and 1e stuff in 1990 for a crate of mead and wine.

Depending on brand and year...may be a decent trade if you weren't using it (the D&D stuff)...

Could also be worst trade ever...

 

[S'mon]

The BECMI ones go with the BECMI boxes & RC. The AD&D ones go with the AD&D books.

 

[Cadence]

Assuming you have built a collection over time. The older modules aren't books of course, they are super thin and so you need some system to be able to find the ones you are looking for.

Some options perhaps you could do them all by published year.

Another option by name (ignoring the word The I suppose?)

What is your filing system?

Having only three old modules (and never having had more than maybe a half dozen), I'd really like to hear about your collection! How many do you have? Any non-TSR ones (like old Judges Guild)? Any pictures of them spread out anywhere or how much space they take up on a shelf? (Somewhere on here is a "Picture of your gaming bookshelf" thread).

 

[Jacob Lewis]

Words escape me at the moment, so...

And...

There might be more somewhere around here.

 

[Greggy C]

Having only three old modules (and never having had more than maybe a half dozen), I'd really like to hear about your collection! How many do you have? Any non-TSR ones (like old Judges Guild)? Any pictures of them spread out anywhere or how much space they take up on a shelf? (Somewhere on here is a "Picture of your gaming bookshelf" thread).

So I have one shelf of all 5e, then this is my shelves for the 1e/2e

I have a bunch of stuff in the mail, on its way from ebay purchases (maybe 2 dozen more 1e/2e modules), including the judges guild thracia module.

I realize that I need to start on a system otherwise I will never find the ones I'm looking for. Most of these I never read in 90s so its going to be super nostalgia and fun to sit back, put on Duran Duran and read 1e or put on Queen and read 2e modules.

Probably just as proud of these too

 

[Greggy C]

Apart from just collecting I have various ideas I would like to breath life into the older modules and get people to look at them again, even if its only the pdf version. For example I'd like to let people relive a large battle of the H1 series on D&D Obviously got to watch the copyright, but I think if it is tastefully done and encourages people to buy the PDF series, should be fine, and a lot of fun.

My first dragon magazine arrived today too