As I sit here, there's a copy of Avalon Hill's Runequest Deluxe at my elbow. If I were in my office, the answer would be the complete Dragon Warriors set (minus book 5). To the sometime amusement of my colleagues.
So what have you got next to you at the moment?
Ah, to my left in the midst of my clutter lies the Serenity and Warhammer rpgs and in the top drawer of the cabinet just behind me is the 1st edition d20 Star Wars rpg.
Physically? I don't carry books with me to work, but I have a printout of Spycraft Mission random tables from Spycraft (1.0) Agency (http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=54704&filters=0_0_0&manufacturers_id=341) in my backpack to serve as inspiration for plotting my GenCon game.
Electronically, I've got a ton of stuff on my flash drive... including every Spycraft 2.0 book (and most 1.0 books), Spirit of the Century, the D20 SRD, a slew of oft used D20 supplements (hyperconscious, untapped potential, Postmodern: fantastic classes, etc.) and adventures (the adventure begins, Rappan Athuk, City of Brass) and ComStar/Avenger and QLI Traveller stuff, and a smattering of other games.
Like Caesar Slaad, I have a bunch of stuff on a flash drive: Traveller Book, Runebearer, a bunch of Judges' Guild stuff and a few Basic D&D modules.
In my bag next to me I have the Moldvay/Cook B/X books.
D&D 3.0 Monster Manual. (It's heavy, flat, and holds my ashtray. I can never have too many surfaces.)
I don't remember why, but the next closest book is Nobilis. :) (Not a good surface -- those D&D 3 books are friggin indestructable.)
Traveller, Book 1: Characters and Combat, 1979 printing. I've kept it in my work stachel for months now. Everway is currently on my nightstand, though.
!i!
Gurps Low Tech is sitting in my car where I'll finish reading it at lunch today.
It would appear to be Trollbabe, though a set of Burning Wheel books I really must return is nearly as close.
GURPS Traveller: Starports
GURPS Traveller: the signed and numbered Traveller 25th anniversary collectors edition.
In less than an arm's reach I have
- Quicklink/Far Future's reprint of the Traveller Basic Books #1-3.
- Microlite20
Hmm, GURPS and Traveller both making a surprisingly strong showing...if I move the radius further out from my desk, I've got the GDW Traveller Book on a shelf just behind me, along with some Rolemaster stuff and T&T 7th ed.
Closest at hand is my playtest materials for Cubicle 7's Doctor Who RPG, sitting next to my keyboard.
Next closest is my Traveller rulebook and the Spinward Marches supplement (new versions of both) on a card table a few feet behind me.
Allen
My 7th Sea GM's Guide is closest to me at the moment.
Equidistant from me in a pile on top of the printer and within easy reach are the following:
Encounter Critical softcover
my ODD houserules notebook
Moldvay Basic D&D
Cook Expert D&D
Modules X1, L1, and A4
Mutant Future
Kinko's-printed spiral-bound omnibus of Mazes & Minotaurs and its first three supplements
Roma Imperious, it's about 200 feet away in the trunk of my car in a parking ramp.
The 4e PHB is in my backpack. Unfortunately I meant to grab the MM this morning. :(
Hard to say, I'm at home about equidistant from the stack of books next my bed, and my game shelf. I'll say Fantasy Hero 1e because it's the last RPG book I touched.
There is a pretty large set of 1st Edition Spycraft books under my desk.
I didn't bring them to work. I just haven't had the opportunity to sneak them past the Imperial Customs Official yet.
GURPS Powers is right by my left hand on my desk.
The Riddle of Steel quick start oddly enough.
Right now - Star Wars - Threats of the Galaxy. In my new apartment - Over the Edge (it is the only book I have moved there so far...)
I'm at work, so I've only got my travel-package with Lacuna Part 1 in it. I carry it around in my briefcase and whenever I find something strange and/or indecipherable, I add it to the package for use as props in-game.
in my bag: Basic Role-Playing and the hardcover Encounter Critical. Probably doesn't count, but i also have a Fiend Folio front and back cover with no interior pages on my desk that i'm going to convert into a sketchbook. (re-bind with paper myself..)
Well, since this is what I'm currently working on, it would be Mean Streets GDi.
It's lunch time!
And I love this thread!
I've also got a printed copy of 'Bits of Darkness Dungeons' from TableTop ADVENTURES (http://www.tabletopadventures.com/).
I won't include PDF cause I'd be here all day. Memory sticks are a modern wonder.
Closest to me is the Dying Earth roleplaying game.
My 3.5 PHB. I was carrying my 4e PHB back and forth in my backpack, but I've got a character to create (http://www.d20haven.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=139) so I swapped this AM! Now it sits on my desk hidden under some work papers in case I need to reference it.
Interesting.
Hearts & Souls hardcover sits on its prestige spot on my top right. next to my notebook and other notes and collections of information.
On the left side of my desk: Providence RPG (all the books I have for it that are not lent out.), Tunnels and Trolls, Cartoon Action Hour, and Spirit of the Century. Those rest there as they were placed there to reference for games I was playing in or planning on running.
Also on my desk just as a musing: CD Player and the few CD's I can listen too, the discs for games: Freedom Force, and Freedom Force vs the Third Reich.
Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend (50's copyright), my lion toy collection (Snarl, Saint-Seya Leo, Lioconvoy, a carousel lion, a stone lion, Steeljaw, and a Lion miniature painted silver, along with Skyfire my other favorite autobot.)
Laptop computer, phone (recharging cell); TV and cable remotes, two Xbox 360 controllers, sunglasses, WACOM Pen and tablet, a 2 gig thumbdrive, a clock and a laser carved glass block with a lion image inside, and my lamentably dead pocket watch.
Just out of reach: My game shelves with all my remaining other games, my recliner, and my snoozing great dane on the bed.
A copy of the New Basic Roleplaying is in my backpack, just in case I get some spare time at lunch to look through it.
And I have a copy of Continuum (my game that sold a tiny number of copies and was renamed Convergence there as well. I am writing version two. I have it there, just in case I get more spare time.
A tie between True20 Adventure Roleplaying and the D&D 3.5 Dungeon Master's Guide
Dragon Warriors on the book-shelf to my left and Talislanta 4e on the chair - 'cos i'm constantly leafing through it, wishing i could get a game going.
Never noticed it before. But the map key of Brubecks in GURPS Traveller starports lists the 'Beer reconstitution' units.
Beer, you don't drink it, you just recycle it.
Nearest to me is the Cyberpunk 2020 book: it is sitting on the kitchen table because I forgot to put it away.
-=Grim=-
THe Turakian Age for Fantasy Hero (Hero System). I'm running a twice monthly game on sundays.
Quote from: GrimJesta;227228Nearest to me is the Cyberpunk 2020 book: it is sitting on the kitchen table because I forgot to put it away.
-=Grim=-
At home it's directly beneath the seat of my computer chair. I've got a stack of CP books there from our last session - been running a CP2020 campaign (my last ever) for 18 months now.
Outside of my harddrive, the closest PRG product to me at this moment is this: http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?currency=USD&it=1&products_id=56717&affiliate_id=180334
Amber Diceless RPG is on top of my bed, and the Earthdawn core books are next on the bookshelf.
Right now I'm at home... and I'm going to have to measure...
It's Rikki Tikki Trav Core Rulebook.
To my left, on the coffee table, a short stack of Fudge 10th, /Basic Roleplaying, and my shiny new b&w SpyCraft, replacing the snazzy color one that fell apart. Equidistant to my right is a teetering stack of Metal Magic and Lore books and binders. Clearly, I need to tidy up the place. As I putter about, the statistics will change.
Back at home now, and the closest book to the computer is a tie between Amber and Shadow Knight.
Dark Heresy and The Inquisitor's Handbook. Heroquest (the Issaries/Glorantha one by Stafford and Laws, not the Games Workshop/Milton Bradley one) is sitting next to them, but only because when my Dark Heresy came around for our pre-game dinner he pulled Heroquest off the shelf to take a look at it.
At home. Dark Heresy is closest, because we played it night before last (my Assassin rocks out), and it's still out on the floor.
On a 10" high shelf just above my monitor, about 18" away, are my D&D white-box & supplements, Traveller box (w/ approx. 100 supplements & magazines from GDW, FASA, Paranoia Press, Gamelords, Digest Group, BITS and Sword of the Knight), and the Phoenix Games edition of Bushido. Another nearby shelf has a bunch of bookcase-sized games, including my RuneQuest III Deluxe Edition box. All my other rpg stuff is in milkcrates or boxes stacked up in the closet.
Nearest to me right now is a Kingdoms of Kalamar supplement, the Villain Design Handbook.
Beyond that I have Star Wars Saga Edition lying on a chair across the room.
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.
Counting .pdfs it would be Necromunda.
Not counting .pdfs, that would be Castles & Crusades: Monsters and Treasure.
Today it's my HackMaster phb sitting in the car.
I've got the Classic Traveller CD-ROM and the JTAS CD-ROM right next to the computer. In my satchel an arm's reach away is Mongoose Traveller and Mongoose Traveller Book 0 - An Introduction to Traveller.
And a cat, sitting on the satchel like it is his throne. I think he's role-playing King of the Jungle in the apartment.
To my right on the table is the black laptop case I use to carry my campaign notes. At the moment it holds the character sheets, adventures and several page printouts of the Mutant Future RPG rulebook.
To my back, leaning against the wall is a leather briefcase with the Empire of the Petal Throne rulebook and sourcebooks plus all the stuff my group used on the previous campaign.
It also holds a stapled Encounter Critical rulebook and a couple of "official" character sheets.
I guess this does not count, but in front of me is my PC with several gigs worth of RPG books on its hard drive.
It's a tie between Thousand Suns, Bushido and Dominion Rules all of which are stored on a thumb drive in my pocket.
closest book to me, in my car for the weekend's session.
Middle Earth Role-Playing 2nd Edition, Bree and the Barrow Downs.
And The Way of the Unicorn, a book I left there by mistake.
Today it is the new-ish (hardcover) version of Codex Arcanis - seems I'm starting a D&D3.x Arcanis campaign again at my players' request.
Quote from: The HellHound 101;227290At home it's directly beneath the seat of my computer chair. I've got a stack of CP books there from our last session - been running a CP2020 campaign (my last ever) for 18 months now.
I tried to get a game going, but it flopped. Partially the adventure, partially the lack of enthusiasm for the system (they loved character generation, but after that... meh.).
-=Grim=-
Quote from: Lawbag;227482Middle Earth Role-Playing 2nd Edition, Bree and the Barrow Downs.
Pardon me while I bask in your Gaming Glory. I've wanted that book since it came out and could never find it for a decent price. So I'll just stand here and pretend I own it, living through you.
-=Grim=-
Closest book to me right now?
Mongoose's Conan, Pocket Edition.
Right in front of me. Amber. I found it at half price books. It is in REALLY good shape. I would love to know the story behind it. Although I have a dark suspicion that it sat upon a shelf unloved for far to long.
Gamma World 4th Edition. 'cause I played it last week. And it's awesome.
WotC's Elder Evils is on a table some twenty centimeters from my left elbow. I've been using it as a writing surface.
If we extend the distance to a metre or more, it will swiftly encompass most of my collection of several hundred books.
Victory Games' James Bond 007. Using it for inspiration for a system hack based on UncleBear's Double Zero PD rules.
All things Traveller past/present & future.
Colonial Gothic is on the shelf below the work surface of my desk. Q Manual, for James Bond 007, is directly beneath it. Of course, I am not counting games that are on my hard drive.
GURPS Campaigns 4e. Came in the mail a few days ago.
All Flesh Must Be Eaten is the closest RPG book to me.
I am working on getting everything together for the All Flesh Game I will be running on Thursday Nights.
Tonight we are getting together for a character creation session
Amber DRPG and Shadow Knight, as well as a printed out version of the Houses of the Blooded Preview PDF...
Because I was doing this last night:
http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=11284
Bliss Stage... about 50 centimetres on shelf above by head...
While it's a rare thing I bring games to work with me, today I did, to read on my lunch break. Mongoose Traveller Book 0 - An Introduction to Traveller is right in front of me, and Abstract Nova's Aletheia is a foot to my left...
In a stack at my left elbow is the World of Darkness (the storyteller system rulebook), Shadowrun 4em and the lil' booklet for Shadowrun 4e that comes with the GM screen.
I have four books in a stack on the corner of my desk. From top down:
1. Artesia: Adventures in the Known World (because I'm currently running it)
2. EABA - because I was flipping through it earlier and haven't put it back yet
3. Changeling: The Lost - because I was considering joining an online game
4. Savage Worlds - because I had been playing in a game a few weeks back
In my office I keep the three original D&D books, the first three Arduin Grimoires, maybe the Greyhawk supplement, and Gods, Demi-Gods, and Heroes. Those are the closest; the other stuff is downstairs.
Crusader magazine. Vol 4 Number 10. On my desk. Arrived while I was off on vacation in Southern Indiana. And yes, I did visit a totally cool pre-columbian battle site known today as Fourteen Mile, now part of the Indiana State Parks system.
There is considerable evidence some red-bearded white men came to America before Columbus. One group (maybe 2,000 + ?), settled on an overlook of the Ohio River and built a medieval castle/stronghold, along with a village and took indian wives, and traded and what-not. They managed to thoroughly piss off the Algonquin with their war-like ways and ill-manners, so much so, the natives called in their kinfolk from as far away as North Carolina, the Cherokee, and members of all the Algonquin besieged the castle, and killed or enslaved all the defenders. In the end, when the white men figured they weren't going to make it, they attempted a breakout, and the last of the defenders slipped off in boats and made down the Ohio river.
They made it as far as the Falls of the Ohio where they were ambushed by war parties as they attempted to take their boats around the falls. They made thier last stand on Sand Island, and the Indians took no warriors there prisoner, and left the bodies (several hundred).
In 1781 near the end of the Revolutionary War George Rodgers Clark was leading an expedition North to capture Detroit from the British, as he made his way across the Ohio at the Falls, he came across the red-haired bones on Sand Island. He captured some natives to ask them about this, and they told him about the great battle at fourteen mile. The natives said the battle had occurred almost 20 generations previously.
The bones and equipment were duly collected, and some say, ordered destroyed. Of the castle at fourteen mile. The blocks were stripped and used to build the first railroad bridge across the Ohio into Louisville. From there, they disappeared. The site was totally interesting, and naturally defendable, what with they steep 250 foot hills overlooking the Ohio. Very dense underbrush. Abundant game, even now, hickory nuts, blackberries, and other food sources grow wild in the area. The hills overlooking the river are treacherously steep, with easily guarded pathways up the hills. Their is eveidence of stone works remaining, and I'll be going back to have a look for more than just a couple hours between now and labor day.
Greyhawk: Folk, Feuds, and Factions a couple rooms to the east.
Praedor is right here on the desk, next to the keyboard since I had to check a few things in the history section last night. The Sailor Moon Role-Playing Game and Resource Book lies slightly beyond an arm's reach. Everything else is currently on the shelves.
Since I'm in my office, the only physical game book within a few hundred yards is my contributor's copy of Terra Incognita from Grey Ghost Games. I purchased a copy on my own before I realized they considered me a playtester and sent me one--so I keep it in my office since I have a spare.
Star Wars Saga Edition
Classic Traveller (LLBs 1-5)
Several dozen pdfs on this computer
GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars lurks under a pile of junk about 4 foot away in the living room corner (I take far better care of my 'real' books - but unfortunately its the battered old RPGs that would have ridiculous resale values if I'd only looked after them).
I have four books in a pile on my desk.
HeroQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha.
A print out of the HeroQuest 2.0 pre-publication rules
Mitlanyal Vols. I & II for Tekumel.
Earthdawn, the core book from FASA and strangely enough, Mythus - Dangerous Journeys. Mainly reading for inspiration of sorts.
WFRP 2E, Gamma World 4E, and Dungeon 94 (containing Omega World).
Faerie's Tale. I'm getting a pile of stuff together to give to my little sister.
At the moment it's Hunter: the Reckoning. We're going to start gaming it and I need to figure out how the fuck it works.
Quote from: shewolf;228312At the moment it's Hunter: the Reckoning. We're going to start gaming it and I need to figure out how the fuck it works.
"We're all gonna die" is a solid place to start... :p
It's not a gaming book per se, but I'm holding a copy of Dungeon Tiles
DU1: Halls of the Giant Kings, which arrived in the post earlier. It's a nice set.
Gary Gygax's Lejendary Adventures PHB and the Earthdawn Barsaive boxed set. They're on the shelf right next to my PC. I've had these Lejendary Adventures boopks for over a year now and only looked at them once, didn't like what I saw and never touched them again. I keep meaning to give it a serious read to see if I was wrong and maybe it is a good system or something.
*shrug*
The ED boxed set has seen much use. I ran a Hackmaster game in Barsaive.
-=Grim=-
Right beside the computer are the rulebook and Instant Heroes book for Mutants & Masterminds. Just beyond that is the bookshelf that holds, well, all the rest. Except for Battlestar Galactica, which is in my backpack, since that's what we're playing right now.
It's one of these four:
Pathfinder RPG Alpha Playtest 3 (paizo)
Complete Scoundrel (WOTC)
Blackdirge's Dungeon Denizens (Goodman Games)
Tomb of Horrors (Necromancer Games)
EDIT: oops, I forgot my laptop is sitting on top of the Eberron Campaign Setting Book, because the only thing it's really good for is keeping the laptop from cooking my balls.
Well before I left Canada I purged all my actual physical copies of rpg's but since I have bought the pdf version of BRP, which is on this computer. So, I guess I would have to say BRP.
The 4e books are all about equidistant from me, beyond that CoC D20 is the only other RPG book I've unpacked since the very, very recent big move.
on the desk beside my pc sits the mongtrav rulebook and a copy of savage worlds explorers edition both await my attention along with the stack of other books sitting on my pc desk, one day i'll get around to doing something of use with each of them...one day :)
3.5 D&D PHB, DMG, and 3e GURPS Basic Set, Revised. They are currently on my computer desk.
Warp World. The old one that's a hundred times more complex than Corps. That's the game closest to me. I've been digging through it and wondering if I need another campaign with that system.
Unhallowed Metropolis, Dark Heresy, and Unknown Armies are within an arm's length.
My marked up printout of Dead Reign is next to me and I am working on the first source book at this moment.
Nyambe: Ancestral Vault - because it poked out a bit from the bookcase to my right the last time I pulled out the X-Crawl stuff that is next to it.
This is as good a time as any for a first post. Right next to me on my desk is Mongoose Traveller and the sourcebook The Spinward Marches. I'll be even happier when 760 Patrons joins the pile later this week.
Well believe it or not Kult.
I believe it. You want to keep Kult close, because it's always up to something. If you put it on the shelf, it will violate your other games. Just keep it away from windows, because it burns at the purifying touch of the sun. :)
could be worse he could have a copy of fatal next to him :)
PLUG:
I'm tabbed up from the recently-completed copy of the Epic RPG Quick Start Guide PDF. It runs for $5 at the Epic store (http://epicrpg.com).
/PLUG
Besides the Epic books form the GenCon order that are eating my office I've also got a copy of Brett's Iron Gauntlets on the shelf closest to the desk.
GURPS Weird War II sitting here as i browse and alternately work on a weird ww2 and a supers ww2 game.
dave
Quote from: Drew;228332"We're all gonna die" is a solid place to start... :p
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So just like CoC ;) Except CoC is all I'm going to go insane and die!
Squirrels...Shoalin...Piratical...hippy...Space....AHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
Bill work on squirrel books too long. Bill need sleep.
Star Frontiers and the Knight Hawks expansion rulebooks are in a binder near the PC.
My big, fat Basic Roleplaying (http://www.chaosium.com/article.php?story_id=246) book which arrived a couple of weeks ago. :worship: