Quote from: Ian Absentia;361600That's pretty much what my son says whenever I get on him to clean his room.

A friend of mine was once complaining about the amount of stuff amassed in various places throughout his house and his perceived inability to thin it out.  Another friend made this offer:  Go away for the weekend, leave me the key; While you're away, I'll take various things from your house and store them at my place for a year; If, during the following year you realise that any particular thing is missing, I'll give it back to you, but otherwise I'll throw anything else away at the end of the year.

By the way, another friend of mine has just cleaned out his apartment and is sending me a box of all of his roleplaying materials that he'll never use again.  Apparently it's a treasure trove of stuff c.1978-1983, with a brief resurgence in Australian RQ from 1992-95.  I'll use this thread to catalogue what I find in the box.

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I've gotten quite good at 'filtering' out my junk. I make regular donations to a local charity. I get rid of probably 90% of the non-fiction books I read that way. And I don't read fiction any longer. But the RPGs stay. I did get rid of about 90% of the 2E stuff though. I just didn't need it after 3E won my heart.

Fortunately in my case this is not a problem; up until last year you could have said this about my extensive Palladium collection. But happily not so anymore.

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Quote from: RPGPundit;360897Does anyone have this? A shitload of books and sourcebooks and editions of a game you don't play anymore (and can't imagine yourself playing again), or perhaps never played?

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I guess the important bit is that I wouldn't "imagine myself playing it again", going by your criteria. Then I must say... no, not a single of my collections fit your description.

See, I have a shitload of books I haven't used for actual play for a while, but all of them I still use for inspiration. Also, all the games I got, I still see myself running at some point down the road. Whether it happens or not will depend on particular meetings and circumstances. I'm in no rush.

Quote from: RPGPundit;361768Fortunately in my case this is not a problem; up until last year you could have said this about my extensive Palladium collection. But happily not so anymore.

Did you purge, or organise?  Or both?

I recall you speaking harshly of the decision to purge in the past -- the reason being that one inevitably regrets the decision later.  I've re-bought a handful of game books that I've purged in the past, invariably out of nostalgia and not for utility. I've been very comfortable with the vast majority of my RPG house-keeping (with the notable exception of my near brush with getting rid of my RQ3 collection -- that was close, and would've been very stupid).

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Quote from: Ian Absentia;361810Did you purge, or organise?  Or both?

I recall you speaking harshly of the decision to purge in the past -- the reason being that one inevitably regrets the decision later.  I've re-bought a handful of game books that I've purged in the past, invariably out of nostalgia and not for utility. I've been very comfortable with the vast majority of my RPG house-keeping (with the notable exception of my near brush with getting rid of my RQ3 collection -- that was close, and would've been very stupid).

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I don't purge anything anymore. The reason I said that "Its not a problem anymore" is because now I've actually started running a Palladium game again, thus annulling the condition of "massive collection of books for a game you haven't used in years".

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Quote from: RPGPundit;360897Does anyone have this? A shitload of books and sourcebooks and editions of a game you don't play anymore (and can't imagine yourself playing again), or perhaps never played?

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Closest I get to this is almost a TON of classic TRAVELLER stuff.

 However I re-used a lot of it in my recent GURPS: TRAVELLER campaign (2004 to 2008-ish?)

So its not really "un-used" or never going to be used.

 Hell I've got a ton of D20-compatible maps and products from PAIZO. Even if I don't use them ion a game I often lend them to other DMs and GMs locally at the game store. (especially the regulars and co-workers that I trust)


- Ed C.

Werewolf: The Apocalypse.
Apart from a couple of books, I think I have the entire line.
Doubt Ill ever run it again, very unlikely Ill split the collection, but might buy the 2 missing books if I ever see them.

Feng Shui. I have a ton of books, but have never been able to get a game together. But much like anything else I cant bring myself to get rid of any of it.

Not anymore, no. I sold all of my D&D 3x and fantasy OGL books last year, save for one. That pretty much took care of the issue for me.

Okay, so the box from my friend arrived today.  I mentioned up-thread that he decided to send me all of his old RPG and related material after cleaning out his apartment.  Opening the box, here's what I find:

Traveller
A very nicely-kept box of the original game -- Books 1, 2, and 3.  In much, much better shape than my ratty old boxed set.
Book 4 - Mercenary
Book 5 - High Guard
Supplement 2 - Animal Encounters
Supplement 3 - The Spinward Marches
Supplement 4 - Citizens of the Imperium

Nothing I don't already own, but amusing to see in such good shape.

Ars Magica 3rd Edition
Mythic Europe
Faeries

Interesting, but I never really got into the game.  Still, they're nice compliments to my basic rulebook.

Call of Cthulhu
5th Edition softcover
Arkham Unveiled

I'm largely over straight CoC these days, but my son has been displaying an unhealthy interest in the game.  Maybe he'll inherit these.

RuneQuest
Here's where things start getting interesting.

1st Edition RuneQuest -- Wow.
Griffin Mountain -- The original softcover, but it's missing the pullout map.
Monster Coliseum -- For RQ3.  This is cool, since it slipped past my attention all those years ago.
Troll Gods -- Also for RQ3.  A repackaging of my beloved Trollpak boxed set.
River of Cradles -- Part of the Avalon Hill/Australian renaissance of the '90s.  A nice compliment to my other Praxian collection.

Magazines
Here's some pretty strange stuff.

Different Worlds #8 -- Neat magazine from the early days of roleplaying.  A really cool historical article on composite bows.
Tournaments Illuminated #57-59 -- A fanzine of the Society for Creative Anachronism, c.1980.  Curious.
Mythlore #18-21 -- A fanzine dedicated to the studies of J.R.R. Tolkein, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams, c.1978-79.
Parma Eldalamberon #1, 3-6 -- A fanzine dedicated to the linguistic studies of Tolkein's Middle Earth, c.1971-78.  Wow.

What's Missing
I know he's had the following items in the past, but they weren't in the box:

Bunnies & Burrows -- the original, the GURPS-ified version.
John Carter of Mars -- a pretty cheesy write-up of character stats for OD&D.
Arduin -- I have hazy memories of this.  Little beige books?
A lot more copies of Different Worlds magazine.

Who knows -- maybe these things are still in his mother's basement, if the cats haven't gotten at them yet.

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I have a ton of I.C.E. MERP/RM material.  However, there's still a possibility that I might play RM (2e), again, at some point.