What RPG books are the Gems of your collection?
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Bagpuss
Legend
Conspiracy X - Simply the best Psionics system ever conceived, and pretty good in other areas as well.
Milleniums End "GM's Companion" - Probably the most useful Modern RPG Sourcebook ever written. The combat system with bullet spread overlays to put over target dummies, was pretty inventive as well, but perhaps a bit over-complex.
Underground - and in particular the LA Sourcebook Boxed Set - Excellent interesting and inspired mechanic for seeing the effects of the players actions on the campaign world.
Everway - My prefered Rules-lite diceless system, the only diceless system I've ever liked.
Kafer Sourcebook - for 2300AD - hands down the best alien race sourcebook I've read, an excellent example of an alien psycology.
James Bond RPG Adventures - They just don't make adventures like this anymore, each adventure is boxed, comes with full colour authentic looking handouts, tickets for example will be printed like actual tickets not just on the same paper as they used for the book.
Milleniums End "GM's Companion" - Probably the most useful Modern RPG Sourcebook ever written. The combat system with bullet spread overlays to put over target dummies, was pretty inventive as well, but perhaps a bit over-complex.
Underground - and in particular the LA Sourcebook Boxed Set - Excellent interesting and inspired mechanic for seeing the effects of the players actions on the campaign world.
Everway - My prefered Rules-lite diceless system, the only diceless system I've ever liked.
Kafer Sourcebook - for 2300AD - hands down the best alien race sourcebook I've read, an excellent example of an alien psycology.
James Bond RPG Adventures - They just don't make adventures like this anymore, each adventure is boxed, comes with full colour authentic looking handouts, tickets for example will be printed like actual tickets not just on the same paper as they used for the book.
Steel_Wind
Legend
Current: War of the Lance (Sov Press) and The Black Company (Green Ronin)
Former eds : City State of the World Emperor; Wraith Overlord.
The Original Iron Wind, Arms Law, Claw Law and Spell Law
Former eds : City State of the World Emperor; Wraith Overlord.
The Original Iron Wind, Arms Law, Claw Law and Spell Law
Silverleaf
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Steel_Wind said:
You lucky dawg! How different is this one from the later edition? (I heard it had AD&D stats or something...)
Qlippoth
Explorer
Amen!twofalls said:All several thousand of them.
Though if I had to choose...
The 3 Little Books in their Box (got awfully lucky on eBay);
The Moldvay Basic rules (corrupted my neighborhood "back in the day;" it's probably the most use-worn book I have);
1e PHB (despite the pencilmarks in the margins, still quite crisp);
The old WHFRP Slaves to Darkness & Lost & the Damned supplements;
The Planescape line (got me back into D&D after a long pause);
The 20th Anniversary Call o' Cthulhu book (probably the most revered of the bunch);
Chronicle of the Black Labyrinth (someone else mentioned it in another thread; it still gives this jaded soul the shivers).
Plus the several thousand others.
Altalazar
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I'll have to think on that, but I would never part with my 1E three core books - too many useful tidbits, too many memories, too many notations, erasiers, more notations...
But I just love books, period - I have over 2,500 non-gaming books. I never would get rid of any of them.
As for gems, I haven't had time to even look at most of the books I have gotten over the past three years, but I'm going to start catching up VERY soon...
But I just love books, period - I have over 2,500 non-gaming books. I never would get rid of any of them.
As for gems, I haven't had time to even look at most of the books I have gotten over the past three years, but I'm going to start catching up VERY soon...
Mystaros
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My near-complete Judges Guild collection. I quit gaming back in my first semester of sophmore year at high school (1984) and sold all my Judges Guild stuff (nearly a complete collection then, too). Fortunately nobody wanted my D&D and AD&D books, so I was not totally screwed when I got back in... three months later. Unfortunately, by then everyone realized that JG was out of business, and nobody would sell me back my JG books! It took me almost two decades to put the collection back together... the gem of the collection, however, is a book given to me by a friend: Bob Bledsaw. Bob gave me one of his original personal house copies of the 56-page Guide to the City State, complete with hand-written notations on the map. It's banged-up, torn, discolored, missing the cover, missing maps (of which I have plenty in all sizes anyway) and in poor condition, but it is a true treasure nonetheless!
My other major gem collection would be my Mystara books. The only Mystara products I am missing, AFAIK, are the Jade Hare and original orange Princess modules, which are too pricy for my wallet these days when it even can be found. My Grand Duchy is on its second layer of tape to keep it together, but it is most cherished.
There are others, worth more money wise perhaps, but those two collections, and the style of gaming and the memories they generate of games with friends over the years, are at the core of my love of the game...
My other major gem collection would be my Mystara books. The only Mystara products I am missing, AFAIK, are the Jade Hare and original orange Princess modules, which are too pricy for my wallet these days when it even can be found. My Grand Duchy is on its second layer of tape to keep it together, but it is most cherished.
There are others, worth more money wise perhaps, but those two collections, and the style of gaming and the memories they generate of games with friends over the years, are at the core of my love of the game...
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