What RPG books are the Gems of your collection?

[Wombat]

But I just love books, period - I have over 2,500 non-gaming books. I never would get rid of any of them.

**sigh**

I know the feeling, but sadly I've had to go through the Three Great Purges in my life. Lost many fine volumes.

Now I'm at about 3-4000 books, including my Arthuriana collection, but not including my rpg volumes (mentally I put them in a different category...)

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

Iron Kingdoms! Iron Kingdoms! Iron Kingdoms!

AU/E's another.

 

[Sanguinemetaldawn]

Up the Garden Path
Orange cover B3 Palace of the Silver Princess
Jade Hare
Lost Tamoachan

Showoff!!
Especially ST1 and Lost Tamoachan, that is impressive.

But do you have Palace of the Vampire Queen, Dwarven Glory, and Pre-Pub R-series tournament modules ?!?

AhahahhahahHAHAHHAHAHHAH !!!!

lol

But seriously, which Tamoachan do you have?



Gameplay Gems (D&D only, or it would be much too long)

#1 tied => Complete Set of Dungeon Mags (this library is an endless resource)
#1 tied =>1st Ed. DMG
Original Greyhawk Folio + Boxed Set
Mythus Core & Mythus Magic
1E FR Grey Boxed Set
3E FR Underdark
Complete Al-Qadim Set
Gary Gygax and Tracy Hickman modules in general (excluding DL)

 

[Monte At Home]

Cool thread.

My gems:

My 3E Player's Handbook with my name embossed in gold on the front. WotC wasn't a company that often remembered to be as cool to its employees as it could have been, so this was a really nice thing for them to have done and means a lot to me.

My near-mint 1E DMG. It's not my original copy, unfortunately (the 1E DMG being the first book I ever owned on my own as opposed to borrowed from someone else), but it's still nice to have and in amazingly good shape.

My original booklets from 1974. They're in pretty good shape. Not the ones I played with originally (like I said, I never owned any of those at the time except for a copy of Blackmoor I picked up a few months later), but they've still been with me a long time.

My terribly worn copy of Villains and Vigilantes.

My terribly worn copies of the original Traveller booklets.

My terribly worn copy of Vault of the Drow.

My fairly recently acquired copy of Spawn of Fashan (thanks, Piratecat!)

My copy of "What is Duneons & Dragons"

The Iron Wind

The original Claw Law, Arms Law and Spell Law

Court of Ardor

Lords of Creation (and the Horn of Roland)

I have other stuff that is technically rare, like Dune, some really old MERP stuff, some rare RPGA modules, and probably some stuff I'm forgetting, but that stuff doesn't mean as much to me as the stuff I have listed above, which all has played some important role in my gaming life.

 

[Aris Dragonborn]

Off the top o' my noggin:

My 1st Edition books: DMG (two versions; one with the efreet, the other with the green robed wizard), PHB (the thieves stealing the eye-gems from the statue), MMI,MMII, Fiend Folio, Manual of the Planes, Deities and Demigods (w/out Elric and Cthulu ), Wilderness Survival Guide, Dungeoneers Survival Guide, Greyhawk Adventures, Unearthed Arcana, Oriental Adventures, 1E DMG Screen (w/the aforementioned green robed wizard on the front)

FRCS (2E and 3.5E)
Dark Legacies Players Guide (can't wait for the Campaign Guide to come out)
Mutants & Masterminds
Nocturnals SB for M&M
Unearthed Arcana 3.5 (I have only 3 players right now, so the gestalt rules came in quite handy)
Star Wars d20 Core Rulebook
Alien Anthology (one of these days, I'm gonna run a D&D campaign using some of those races)
Shadowrun 3E (just plain fun to read, really; small chance I'll ever run it, due to lack of interest)
Just about all of my 3.5 WotC books
Ravenloft d20
Dragonlance d20

That's all I can think of right now.

 

[Monte At Home]

Orange cover B3 Palace of the Silver Princess

That's very cool. I have a photocopy of this, but not the real thing.

I did, however, park my car for about 3 and a half years on top of where most of them are buried.

And I do have a copy of the similiarly trashed-just-before-it-was-released Champions module, Wings of the Valkyrie.

 

[Lars Porsenna]

I think the only books I consider "treasures" in my collection are my Battletech House Books (all but House Marik...never liked those guys anyway). These were, IMHO, some of the best game supplements ever published. In one swoop, these books turned the Battletech setting into a sparsely detailed Road Warrior-with-Robots setting, into one of the best detailed, wholly fleshed out SF settings ever put to print (IMHO). Only recently have they begun releasing new, updated, wholly new editions of these (the Handbook series), and it took FASA getting killed to bring them out...

Damon.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

Both by Black Dog (White Wolf):
Human Occupied Landfill
Freak Legion
Both of these are a very fun read, and they play like a frog in a blender.

Macho Women With Guns
How can you beat that? You can't beat it!

Donjon
I think they wrote this game for Diaglo...

And my new favourite game:
My Life With Master
So simple, and yet so complex...

 

[mythusmage]

Aria: Roleplaying
Aria: Worlds
The Magical (Medieval) Society Books.
The Gygax Fantasy Worlds Series
Arcana Unearthed
Black Company Campaign Setting
Blue Rose
GURPS Dragons
GURPS Fantasy (4e)
GURPS Magic(4e)
GURPS Magitech
GURPS Spirits
GURPS Cabal
GURPS Cops
GURPS Discworld
GURPS Discworld Also
Citystate of the Invincible Overlord (Necromancer)
Ars Magica
Mythus
Mythus Magick
Mythus Bestiary
Epic of Ærth
Guns, Guns, Guns,
More Guns
World Builders Guidebook
Fantasy Hero
Witchcraft
Unearth Arcana (3.5)
Medieval Players Manual
BESM d20
Frost and Fur
Draconomicon (3e)
Advanced Bestiary
Beyond the Mountains of Madness
Orkworld
Authentic Thaumaturgy
Kult

And I'm going to end it there otherwise It could get much longer.

 

[A'koss]

Hmmm, off the top of my head...

Settings
The original World of Greyhawk box set. Soooo much mileage...
Planescape.

Rules
The D&D Basic Set. The D&D Rules Cyclopedia may have long since taken it's place, but it could never replace it.
The Best of Dragon Vol. II-IV. The Duelist, the (revised) Monk, the Archer, the Anti-Paladin, the Half-Ogre, the Deathmaster... When I think of my all-time favorite classes and just some of my favorite Dragon articles (especially the ones regarding running playable paladins, making dragons more formidable, runes, saints...) - I can just about pick them all from those 3 volumes. Some of those classes may have been a wee bit on the munchy side but we all had huge fun and years of mileage playing them.
Monster Manual 2 (for 3rd edition). I keep turning to this book for monster inspirations in my own homebrew. It's something I never really thought about but then went, hmmmm, which source do I turn to again and again...
Dungeons and Dragons 3.5e. The foundation.
The Mayfair D&D-compatable products. Not always immediately useful in the campaign, but always inspirational.

Adventures
The Gates of Firestorm Peak. Ahh, the beginning of all that Far Realm goodness...
The original Temple of Elemental Evil
The Slavers Series
The Illithid Series
Die Vecna, Die
Return of the Eight
Hellbound, the Blood War
Dead Gods
GDQ - Giants/Drow/Queen
B1-7 - In Search of Adventure
The Bloodstone series.
A Paladin in Hell
Return to the Tomb of Horrors. You can almost hear the blender running in the background...
Many of the "Companion" and "Master" level D&D adventures.

Cheers!

A'koss.