Quote from: BalbinusSo, those of you who've been there, how did you go about culling your collection?  What did you cull it from and what down to?  

And note, I don't consider myself a collector, I'm a gamer, but when you've only used 25% of your books in play you plainly have a collection whether you mean to or not.

So, assembled hordes, those of you who've been where I am now, how did you deal with that?

I think longer and longer what to buy. My shelves are full, I've got to go to Ikea to buy "more space", so I can't afford to keep buying gaming books without rhyme or reason.

Once, talking to my wife, I told her that maybe I should sell part of my gaming books. Her answer was "Never!!!!!!!" :woop:

Sometimes, I think there is a certain stigma attached to being a collector. Well, I consider myself partially a game collector, I like reading gaming books. Of course, (good) gaming is even better than reading gaming books, but not always I've been able to play, and long winter nights are very long without gaming, so, you know.

The only RPG books I've ever 'disposed' of were:

A Guide to Magnamund, because it had literally fallen to pieces and the pages gone all curly from damp. Why it succumbed and other books didn't, I have no idea. Chucked it out as it was literally beyond use.

A copy of RIFTs. I was in an 'indignation' phase and threw it out in a fit of petulance. I almost threw TMNT and After the Bomb and a couple of TMNT scenario books too...but relented later and retrieved them from the trash.

FASA's Dr Who RPG - sold it on eBay. Regretted it straight away.

Amber Diceless...an inadvertent disposal - a friend borrowed it and promptly joined the marines, never to be heard from again. I still gnash my teeth over the loss.

Everything else I've kept. Almost all of it is in storage at the moment (really nowhere to put it all in the new place). I've only got RQ2 and MRQ with me, so occasionally I weep softly thinking about all my other games..damn, you've started me off again...

As for how many books/games the total would be...I honestly dread to think. A couple of hundred, certainly.

- Q

I once had a massive and diverse RPG collection. In the 1990s it did nothing but grow. I have (almost) every single White Wolf RPG, most of the Palladium systems (including Rifts, snap!), a huge Torg collection, and nearly everything for Earthdawn. I also have DC Heroes, and two different editions of Blood of Heroes (which are both fairly lame interpretations of a great system). Champions. Two different editions of Gurps. Masterbook. Uhm.. there's more.

I had a bunch of other smaller press games. I have that game Gareth Michael Skarka did, Underworld (anyone want it? It's cool, but I don't use it). I have Orkworld (John Wick) signed by Thomas Denmark.

But I packed it all away, and Ebayed off a bunch of things.  

Now it's all D&D, and it all gets used on an almost weekly basis.