Your house is burning--what do you choose?

[just__al]

I believe that the one thing wouldn't be a gaming aide.

After I got all the people and pets out I'd probably grab my Criterion DVD of Hard Boiled and get the hell out.

If however, I was to be stranded on a desert island with only one gaming aide, it would be my laptop with DM Genie and the SRD so I could play DnD with my imaginary friend the volleyball.

 

[Krieg]

Umm...what type of house do exactly live in? An abandoned military missile silo? (which sounds cool btw )

More likely an institution for the criminally insane.

You mean other than the whole exothermic oxidation reaction thing.

LOL

 

[der_kluge]

For all those that said their hard drives, might I take this opportunity to recommend a website to you - www.easiestfilesystem.com

I did a quick study, and it is bar-none, the cheapest online file storage system on the internet. I keep all my campaign notes, files, my original compositions (well, I intend to, I haven't uploaded them all yet), pdfs I've purchased, and anything else that I can't replace on here.

For a small fee, they'll even burn it onto CD for you - which for the truly paranoid, you could keep locked up in a safe deposit box.

The only downside is that they don't back up their server, but that's just a good reason for me to keep my own backups, but in the case of a fire, you'll be extra-glad you stored your stuff all in cyberspace.

As for the topic, I can honestly think of nothing that is RPG-related that I would truly want to run in and grab. My copy of Bluffside is signed by most of the writers and artists, but I could even recreate that if need be. I might save my Al-Qadim core rulebook and the Al-Qadim MM13 (since it is so freaking rare), and that's probably about it.

 

[Agback]

G'day

Like many others, I don't place any RP product high on my list of priorities to save from fire. There are a person and a dog before anything else, and some irreplaceable artworks, and my Mac (or at least the CD-ROM backups of its hard drive), and some heirlooms, and even a very beautiful desk that I had made earlier this year.

But, treating the question as a colourful but imprecise way of asking "if you could save only one item of your RPG collection, what would it be?", I have to answer "one of my copies of first-edition ForeSight". The best RPG ever printed, now out of print and virtually impossible to find: no other RPG product I have is in the race.

Regards,


Agback

 

[Fenlock]

oh, come on! someone should have mentioned it by now...
the first thing i would take out if the building caught would be the fire (dont people read discworld anymore?).

but, being single without pets, i would just grab my coat, cellphone and spare contactlenses. i remember most i have read, but i am practically blind...

/fenlock

 

[gunter uxbridge]

A no brainer for me.

In one small blue folder I have some prized items from the dawn of my role playing existence. Inside is my first ever D&D character hand written on graph paper.

There is also material from my first Star Trek RPG game. There are ship sheets and character info, rules info and a lot of notes. All of the Star Trek stuff is from a good friend of mine who GMed that game and passed away a few years ago. It's all I could find that was his.

 

[Zappo]

Unscrewing my HD from the case would be a sure way to get killed. Damn minitower.
I maintain a backup of my documents folder on a CD. That's what I'd take. It contains lots of irreplaceable stuff.

I would curse a lot about the loss of my Planescape stuff during the course of the following month, though..

 

[Taelorn76]

I would curse a lot about the loss of my Planescape stuff during the course of the following month, though..

Yes I agree Planescape would be sorely missed.

 

[neoweasel]

My laptop.

What? It's where I store most of my notes.