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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Crimson" data-source="post: 5760666" data-attributes="member: 6679258">My understanding for the lack of RPG books is multifold:1) Super-niche product. Most librarians probably only tangentially know of RPGs and since they tend to fill the &quot;game&quot; mindspace more than the &quot;book&quot; mindspace, they may not even think to acquire them.2) The D&amp;D-is-evil/BADD scares of the early '80s. I've actually heard a librarian quote this one at one point as reasons why her library divested itself of D&amp;D titles - not because they agreed with it, but the grief from the BADD people made it a pain to deal with.3) Stolen books. Another librarian once mentioned that they used to have a number of D&amp;D products at their library. But they tended to get borrowed and never returned or would literally be stolen off the shelves - more often than most other books.This is almost entirely anecdotal and hearsay, of course. But they don't sound unreasonable for reasons why it isn't more common.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lord Crimson, post: 5760666, member: 6679258"] My understanding for the lack of RPG books is multifold: 1) Super-niche product. Most librarians probably only tangentially know of RPGs and since they tend to fill the "game" mindspace more than the "book" mindspace, they may not even think to acquire them. 2) The D&D-is-evil/BADD scares of the early '80s. I've actually heard a librarian quote this one at one point as reasons why her library divested itself of D&D titles - not because they agreed with it, but the grief from the BADD people made it a pain to deal with. 3) Stolen books. Another librarian once mentioned that they used to have a number of D&D products at their library. But they tended to get borrowed and never returned or would literally be stolen off the shelves - more often than most other books. This is almost entirely anecdotal and hearsay, of course. But they don't sound unreasonable for reasons why it isn't more common. [/QUOTE]

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