Which of these books would you keep?

[buzz]

If this was your D&D collection, which books would you vote for as "must keep"?

This is hypothetical, so please don't email me with purchase/trade requests.

 

[Crothian]

Thinking of thinning down your collection some?

 

[Son_of_Thunder]

Core 3

I did this recently. Everything went on eBay except the core 3.

 

[buzz]

Thinking of thinning down your collection some?

Man, no wonder your post count is so high! Your reply showed up just as I was viewing my post for the first time after clicking "submit".

Yeah, pondering.

And this is peanuts compared to my HERO collection.

 

[Ed_Laprade]

None of the above. PHB, DMG and MM. Don't need anything else.

 

[Mercule]

UA tops the list. There are some mighty fine ideas in that book.

XPH comes next. While I don't like the "new age" feel of 3E psionics, that's easy to work around, and the system is bloody solid.

ECS is next because it's a well laid-out setting that I like. Normally, I home brew but it's good to have a low-work option around. Plus, there are some excellent ideas in the book.

ToM has some really, really cool ideas in it that fit nicely into a couple of things I wanted to do with my homebrew, anyway. At least personally, that puts it in the category of things I'd keep, even if the rest went on auction to pay medical bills (or some such).

While I enjoy many of the other books, they don't qualify as necessary by any stretch.

 

[sjmiller]

Of the books listed I would keep the monster manuals, draconomicon (it looks too cool to sell), manual of the planes, and dieties and demigods. I know most iwll disagree with my selections, but out of that list I selected only those I purchased, since I am rather a minimalist when it comes to D&D books.

 

[Aesthetic Monk]

I'd keep the XPH, a proven resource (for me), but I wouldn't consider Complete Psionic to be must-have even if I do have it and enjoy psionics a lot. The Completes (except Psionic) stay, as do the Spell Compendium (Treasury?) and the PHB2. The Completes offer good character options, as does the PHB2. The Spell Compendium has a lot of good material, though overlapping with the Completes, admittedly.

 

[Arnwyn]

Given that list, the "must keep" items for me are:

- MM2
- FF
- Draconomicon
- Libris Mortis
- Lords of Madness
- FRCS
- BoVD

I wouldn't miss the rest.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Funny, there are quite a few products there that I've gotten rid of, though there are plenty that I've never touched.

Though I rated a few as ones I wouldn't sell, the only real must-have for me on that list would be the Manual of the Planes. I consider extraplanar travel a classic feature of D&D.