(WotC/d20) How many books (NOT PDFs) do you own?

[Mark]

With 76 votes tallied, just over 50% with 21+ books on the shelf. Interesting...

 

[Jeff Wilder]

I have hundreds.

At the beginning of the D20 explosion, I was lucky enough to immediately recognize a lot of the best publishers, and I collected their stuff obsessively. (Actually, the only reason I've stopped is that I vastly outpaced my own ability to read it ... and I read fast. They've also slowed down, but I have an entire shelf of material waiting for me to catch up to it.) I own -- or did own -- every WotC D&D book, nearly everything from Green Ronin, FFG, Penumbra, and Malhavoc, and many miscellaneous titles.

 

[BSF]

Whew! Easily over 30 from what I can think of in hardbacks alone.

Yeah, probably too much, but I enjoy reading it, you know? And I run a pretty open campaign. I probably don't need material though. I just like to have it.

 

[Zoatebix]

I think I count 44 between what I have here on my shelf and in my room in Falls Church.

 

[JoeBlank]

I counted over 30 hardcovers, and I probably have three times that in softcover.

Maybe it is time to head down to the Miniatures Trading and RPG Marketplace forum and unload some of the stuff I know I will never use. That is where I bought most of it anyway. If I had paid full price for everything I would have to go to ebay and see what the suckers there would pay for it.

 

[Darkness]

Sheesh, I even counted my Kenzer stuff and I only have 8...

I think I'm understanding why people don't want to run core-rules-only games. They'd feel like they wasted their money on all their extra books!

Nah, but core rules are so... limited when you have all those options available.

 

[Voadam]

Dozens and dozens, maybe under a hundred, maybe not. And that is d20, not older edition, not non-D&D, and not counting counter products.

WotC is a small proportion of my d20 collection.

It's funny, I lost my 3.0 ph at a game two years ago and never upgraded my 3.0 DMG or MM outside of srd use, but I have a ton of supplemental books.

Here are just the campaign settings alone that I have in print:
Wheel of Time
Forgotten Realms
Twin Crowns
Ravenloft
Valus
Ragnarok
Twilight of Atlantis
War in Heliopolis
Nyambe
Testament
Scarred Lands Gazetteer
Dragonlance
Dragonlords of Melnibone
And I probably forgot some things.

 

[Kanegrundar]

115 books ranging from D&D to Star Wars to M&M to EQ and just about everything in between. That's not even counting the various other non D20 books on the shelves as well. Jeesh, I never expected it to be nearly that high.

Kane

PS: I might as well jack that number up to 118, since I have 3 books still in the mail.

 

[freebfrost]

I used to go there a lot but frankly their customer service is dreadful, though they have the best selction in town.

Not so much anymore. While I appreciate what they've done to clean up the place, the selection seems to be stagnant these days.

The service is still spotty, sadly enough.

I tried Ravenstone recently, and was pretty impressed.

 

[Axegrrl]

edit: oops, didn't realize you were talking only wotc/d20 books.

RPG books in general:
Thirty-four...

...on the first shelf of the small bookcase.


Over a hundred in sight on three shelves in this room.
Plus two full bookcases downstairs.
Plus I think some more of the really old stuff still in storage from the move.


Guestimate? Well over a thousand, I think. 'Tis what happens when gamer marries gamer, and each has already been acquiring books for a couple of decades.


Of that total, if by Wotc you include TSR, we're still in the hundreds.