What RPG books are the Gems of your collection?

[RichGreen]

Hi,

My gems:

1e Oriental Adventures
OA1 to OA6
Forgotten Realms Grey Box
FR 3 Empires of the Sands
I3-I5 Desert of Desolation
Horror on the Orient Express
Planescape -- entire line
Spelljammer boxed set

Cheers


Richard

 

[tetsujin28]

Mine's all old stuff:
First printing of Empire of the Petal Throne
Runequest first and second
Cults of Prax first printing
Cults of Terror
Pavis and Big Rubble box sets

 

[Monte At Home]

I am curious about your choice of the Court of Ardor. I had it for a brief time, and what I read confirmed the general consensus that it doesn't really belong in Middle Earth proper. This, in combination with the Rolemaster material you listed just previous, makes me wonder if it is a good Rolemaster module, rather than a good MERP module, and I was just looking at it the wrong way.

Well, you're absolutely right. It fits into Middle Earth about as well as trying to fit Han and Chewie swooping in with Millenium Falcon to help out in the movie Apollo 13.

But once you're past that, it is indeed a wonderful (extremely high level) RM module. It's heavily influenced by Zelazny's Amber--not that that's a bad thing--but it's much more than that as well. Lots of cool ideas, particularly cool characters and locations. I've used it twice. Once, converted to AD&D 1E, and once meshed together with the Temple of Elemental Evil (converting that to Rolemaster) in a very strange campaign.

 

[Maggan]

My gems

1. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, 1st edition
2. Call of Cthulhu, 2nd edition
3. Stormbringer, 1st edition
4. Star Wars d6, 1st edition
5. D&D Rules Cyclopedia

M.

 

[danbuter]

my Planescape collection
my Harn collection
my Earthdawn collection
my Palladium Fantasy collection
DnD 3.5 PHB, DMG, MM, MMIII, Libris Mortis, Complete Arcane, Warrior, Adventurer, and Divine
Warhammer FRP 1st and 2nd edition books
Savage Worlds!, Tour of Darkness
Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, Countdown
Basic, Expert, Companion DnD rules
Star Frontiers books

 

[Allandaros]

AD&D 2e core books
AD&D 1e DMG
Paranoia XP
Forgotten Realms Adventures
Stormbringer

 

[RichGreen]

my Harn collection

Doh! Forgot Harn -- me too!

Cheers


Richard

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

I'm stunned that someone other than me actually has the Free City of Haven... I've got the add-on products as well, and many of the Thieves' Guild products, which were all really good for their time. Three-hole drilled and in plastic baggies. Strange product packaging, but hey. There are very few people who have even heard of them.

Apart from that, I used to have a complete set of the JG products, but they've almost all gone missing, along with my original G1-3, Vault of the Drow, and Queen of the Demonweb Pits. I still have and use my JG Book of Treasure Maps I & II. I have the original Chainmail booklet. A couple of versions of Top Secret and the original Boot Hill.

That's about all I can think of right now.

 

[Psychic Warrior]

3.0/3.5 DMG, MM, PHB
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (hardback 1E)
Relics & Rituals 2: Lost Lore (because it is my first, and only, published material)
Denziens of Freeport - as an example of how a book of NPCs should be done.
My 100+ issue collection of Dungeon Magazines (used an adventure from issue 17 a few months ago - easy to update and a lot of fun. With these I have little use for other published adventures)

edit - add in my classic Traveller book collection (about 35 books including journals from the Traveller's Aid Society).

I put this list as books that have a significant meaning to me or that I could not bear to ever part with. I have lots of stuff that is rare or valuable but none mean so much to me as these do.

 

[Greylock]

I don't have any real gems, per se. Nothing very old in my collection as none of my DnD stuff from high school survived that I know of. My mother has my old high school annuals packed away 1000 miles away from here. Maybe she still has some of the DnD stuff, too. I'll have to remember to check someday.

But I have four books, recently bought, that bring me MUCH joy. Excalibur - Relics and Rituals, Scarred Lands - Ghelspad, Green Ronins Aasimar and Tiefling. But top of the heap is another Green Ronin source book, Corwyl - Village of the Wood Elves. This book has been thumbed and marked and devoured since I bought it. Read through many times already. Every detail in it, every piece of backstory, every drawing, the basic ideas of the book. Everything about it has refreshed me, and it has me brimming with enthusiasm. It has me pulling out my old Dark Age - Britain setting notes. I may get started on this murph again.