So, outside of what you actually play, how many different game system books do you own?

Is your stuff all D&D/OSR related?

Do you just have a few non-D&D books?

If you have a big variety of them, do you use them?

Quote from: RPGPundit;1023171So, outside of what you actually play, how many different game system books do you own?

Is your stuff all D&D/OSR related?

Do you just have a few non-D&D books?

If you have a big variety of them, do you use them?

I think I got some  stuff here and there.

I'm guessing this got closed by accident??

I find D100 based games to be my favourite system so I have a lot of Call of Cthulhu, Laundry, Runequest and Mythras plus a scattering of other similar games. I also like PbtA games so I have a bunch of those, and similar systems such as Blades in the Dark. As I started out with the original three D&D books I have a certain fondness for OSR games so I have a bunch of those, including a lot of DCC.

The bulk of the games I own are for horror based and fantasy games with a smattering of space/sci-fi games on the side as I find that most of those don't do space very well.

I have a lot of original D&D stuff but that got boxed away when I found better games, gets pulled out for maps and art inspiration occasionally.

Outside of whichever one I'm playing I have a wedge of different games but in the last two years I've narrowed it down to three or four game systems.

A lot of d100 classics as I can use it with Mythras, FFG Star Wars and now it's setting neutral Genesys, The original and when released Talislanta (Thank you Ten Bones) and the 2d20 games. Also my Alternity (the real one) books.

Definitely not as varied as it used to be in day to day use but I have a hard drive full of games i own but will probably never run outside the above.

Rolemaster 2nd edition blue box
Space Master Ist and 2nd edition
Ars Magica 3rd, 4th and 5th edition
Call of Cthulhu 3rd black hardback edition
Runequest: 1st, 2nd , 3rd (GW book format) and 6th edition
Megatraveller
DnD (Mentzer)
Adnd 1st and 2nd
DnD 3rd
Beyond the Wall
Fantastic Heroes and Witchery
DCC
Torchbearer
Savage Worlds
Talislanta
VtM, WtA, WtO, MtA, CtD
2300 AD
Burning Wheel
Cyberspace
Cyberpunk 2013, 2020
Stormbringer (GW)
Elric
Exalted
Golden Heroes
Marvel Super Heroes Role-Playing Game (old TSR)
HARP
Over the Edge (1st edtition)
Palladium Fantasy 1st ed
Skyrealms of Jorune (boxed set)
Lace and Steel
The One Ring
MERP

Mine covers a whole lot of what came out since 1978. My interests these days do tend to lean towards the D20 mechanic. Though the last two books I looked at weren't. I think it comes up to around 63+ linear feet of shelf space now. I've lost track honestly. Organization isn't my strong suite.

I have a lot of stuff, mostly older systems, but with some more modern stuff:
Lots of 1st Ed AD&D, Call of Cthulhu, Traveller, RQ2, stormbringer, MERP, Golden Heroes; a few more obscure things like Atlantean System and Fantasy Wargaming; some modern "indie" things like Duty & Honour, Vornheim, Red & pleasant Land; most of the official 5th Ed stuff. I used to have loads of Deathwatch stuff but I found myself fighting against the system instead of using it, so I gave it away.

Quote from: RPGPundit;1023171So, outside of what you actually play, how many different game system books do you own?

Is your stuff all D&D/OSR related?

Do you just have a few non-D&D books?

If you have a big variety of them, do you use them?

Not very much, really. "Empire of the Petal Throne", "Swords and Glory", the Tome game, and "Bethorm", all set in Tekumel. "Arrows of Indra" is the only non-Tekumel game I own; you are unique, Pundit. Some sets of miniatures rules like "Chainmail", "Missum", "Legions of the Petal Throne", "Bireme and Galley", "Down Styphon!", and "Naumachia". I learned "Braunstein" directly from Dave Wesely, but nothing in writing as it's all oral tradition.

No. What D & D stuff I have is again oral tradition, from Dave and Gary.

Game-wise, yes, otherwise there are over 1,500 books in my collection of what is basically primary research material.

Yes, all the time.

Quote from: estar;1023177I think I got some  stuff here and there.

Hmmm. About twice as many RPG books and boxed sets as me. I have huge hand-painted minis collection though, with more than three thousand stands of 1/72 American War of Independence minis, and easily a couple thousand fantasy minis. Could really use some more buildings and structures.

Games, Lets see... in no particular order

Boardgames from SPI, Avalon Hill, GDW, Yaquinto, Steve Jackson Games (Ogre), and Columbia Games.

Classic Traveller, Traveller 2300 (Marc Miller, Frank Chadwick, & Loren K. Wiseman @ GDW)
Twilight 2000 (Frank Chadwick, Loren K. Wiseman & Lester Smith @ GDW)
Gamma World (Jim Ward @ TSR)
Metamorphosis Alpha (Jim Ward @ TSR)
The Lost 77 Worlds & The Blasted Earth (Jim Ward & Co.)
Chivalry & Sorcery Redbook (Ed Zimbalist @ Fantasy Games Unlimited)
Arrows of Indra - (The Pundit)
Star Wars d20 (Saga -- WOTC)
Star Siege (Josh Chewning @ Troll Lord Games)
Mutants & Masterminds (Chris Pramas @ Green Ronin)
Blue Rose (Nicole Lindroos & Chris Pramas @ Green Ronin)
GURPS 3.0 (mostly... some newer book -- Steve Jackson Games)
Hârn RPG (Columbia Games by N. Robin Crossby & Grant Dagliesh)
Top Secret (Merle Rasmussen @ TSR)
0D&D (White bookset + Supplements + Holmes Bluebook + Rules Cyclopedia)
The Complete Warlock (0D&D Variant -- Balboa Games)
Champions of Zed (0D&D Variant by Daniel H. Boggs)
Advanced Melee & Advanced Wizard (Steve Jackson @ Metagaming Concepts)
1e AD&D
2e AD&D
Runequest 3rd edition (Avalon Hill edition by Greg Stafford, Steve Perrin, Steve Henderson, Ken Rolston & Sandy Petersen)
Fudge, 10th Anniversary Edition (Ann Dupuis & Stephen Sullivan)
Fate & Fate Accelerated (Fred Hicks & Rob Donahue)
The Compleat Arduin (Dave Hargrave)
Rhune RPG (d20 -- by Jay Sonia)
Castles & Crusades (d20 -- Stephen & Davis Chenault)
Mindjammer (Fate -- Sara Newton)
0D&D Judges Guild Wilderlands Setting (original -- everything except Bob Bledsaw's Lost Man's Trail)
Aces & Eights (Western RPG from Dave Kenzer & Co.)
Lejendary Adventures (Fantasy by Gary Gygax)
Dangerous Journeys (Fantasy by Gary Gygax)
Empire of the Petal Throne: Swords & Glory (by M.A.R. Barker)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness (by Erick Wujcik)
Caeron 3000 (d20 Sci-Fi)
Bushido ( Paul Hume & Rob Charrette @ Phoenix Games)
Morningstar RPG (fantasy by R Scott Kennon @ Goodman Games)
Spycraft RPG (d20 modern by Patrick Kapera @ AEG Games) ...dang I haven't played a game of this in about five years!

It's a funny thing, every time I look at this list and then go through my collection, I find another RPG I forgot about not included on this list here.... Also, Like Chirine, there is a rather large library of fantasy, sci-fi, & historical titles of books I use for gaming research.

Quote from: RPGPundit;1023171So, outside of what you actually play, how many different game system books do you own?

Is your stuff all D&D/OSR related?

Do you just have a few non-D&D books?

If you have a big variety of them, do you use them?

There is the stuff I regularly play, and multiple copies of core or starter sets that I give away when I demo a game that I am enthusiastic about.

I've got some books that I have played in the past, but no longer play on a regular or even infrequent basis, so they are part of the library.

The vast majority of my GURPS Traveller stuff was sold off and the CD-ROM was purchased from Far Future Enterprises because the background and setting information is the best out there but I just don't use that version to play Traveller.

There is a lot about 3.x/Pathfinder that I like, and I keep several of the 3PP books, but most of the D&D style gaming I do with Labyrinth Lord because it is quick and easy. I used to have over $2000 invested in books and crap for 3.x, but when 4E came out and drop-kicked me as a customer, I sold most of it and haven't spent hardly any money on WotC products since.

Pretty much, I know what I like and concentrate on those.

I've got a huge variety that I've rarely or never used, although I'm thinking of doing some trimming (items marked with * are likely to go on the chopping block). This is print-only, not including PDFs, and mostly the stuff I have currently in my apartment, not counting odds and ends in storage.

D&D--Heaviest on 2nd, 4th and BECMI, but core books and some supplements for 1E and 3E. Only one 5E product and an accessory to it, so maybe I'll endure the Purge of all those who do not join the #Resistance and bend the knee to Venus Paneros and her consort Moloch.
Castles & Crusades
13th Age*
True20*
Basic Roleplaying, Magic World & Call of Cthulhu
Star Wars--all three versions of d6, all three versions of d20
Star Trek--Last Unicorn and Decipher (and the FASA Klingon books, 2nd Edition)
HERO System
Savage Worlds
FUDGE
BESM 2nd and 3rd Edition
Mutants & Masterminds 2nd and 3rd Editions*
Castle Falkenstein
Dragonlance: Fifth Age
Marvel SAGA
Pendragon
Rolemaster/MERP
Decipher Lord of the Rings

So, outside of what you actually play, how many different game system books do you own?
I used to have a LOT of RPGs and attendant sourcebooks, supplements, and boxed sets of stuff. Over the years it has winnowed down to two shelves of material and probably that much again in the cloud on PDF. For books we have about 20 games, and PDFs another 10 or so. I simply started keeping what I knew I really wanted to play someday or wanted to play right now. If I already knew a game system but knew I didn't have to play it I cut it. If I read about a system that looked intriguing but it didn't seem like I'd get to it ahead of everything else on the list, I didn't get it. But still... I have bought a few games in recent years because after researching them I thought, "Yes, that seems cool. I'd like to share that with my friends.)

The fact is I have on these two shelves enough RPG material to last me until the day I die. Only so much time, and any of these game could provide years of entertainment. (Almost all of them are driven by Referee created content and do not depend on or do not have sourcebooks/splatbooks and so on)

Is your stuff all D&D/OSR related?
No. The only D&D stuff I own is a PDF set of original Dungeons & Dragons booklets (which I hope to use some day), most of the Lamentations of the Flame Princes line, OSR material from small publishers (Yoon-Suin, Deep Carbon Observatory, The Metamorphica, and a few others), and a PDF of Basic D&D. All of these have been used or referenced for play. (I have been slowing down on my LotFP purchases lately. Like, I get it... and now I can go off and do my own stuff in the same vein.)

I'll add in here Whitehack and Warriors of the Red Planet (Barsoom by way of OD&D)... not because they are D&D (they aren't and I don't consider them such) but they are close enough they might matter for this inquiry.

Do you just have a few non-D&D books?
Compared to all the books I own, the non-D&D books far outweigh the D&D/OSR books. The games range from original Classic Traveller, Empire of the Petal Throne, Runequest, and Pendragon, to Sorcerer, Burning Wheel, and Riddle of Steel, to HeroQuest, Fate of the Norns, and Mutant Year Zero, and others.

Looking over the titles I realize now that my RPGs are weighted upon the first years of the hobby ('74-'78) and the last seventeen years of the hobby (2000 to the present). Apart from Pendragon I have no games from the 80s or the 90s -- even games I worked on and once owned complete sets of! It seems as if the games that depended on countless books to spool out the setting were not my cup of tea. Well, that and fiddly-bit rules systems that seemed to be built along the "Well, This is How You Design an RPG" philosophy and not a lot of thought as to what the actual effect being sought.

If you have a big variety of them, do you use them?
I use them. I mean, you can only use one RPG at a time -- and often that use will last months if not a year or two. But since I got back into the hobby back in 2000 I have used most of the games, either in my Monday Night Group or at conventions. I've run one shots of Classic Traveller at conventions, I hacked the HeroQuest rules so a member of the Monday Night Group could use it for a Shadowrun game. I pull out Pendragon whenever I can. I'm currently running a "Kids as Apprentice Wizards" game using simple hack of the Powered by the Apocalypse rules.

But the fact is even if I ran a four month to twelve campaign using a single RPG system that would only be one or three different RPGs a year. We'd probably double back to a couple of the systems over several years, limiting us to maybe 8 to 12 of the games (if that) over five years.

RPGs are amazing because they help you generate fun on your own. They don't need a lot of expense or additional books. That's the beauty of them. And that's one of the metrics I use to decide which books get bought and which books stay.

BX, AD&D, 2e and 5e D&D + Greyhawk boxed set, and Dragonlance Adventures, and Oriental Adventures, and Red Steel, and Spelljammer, and Planescape.
Revised/2nd ed Gamma world, 3e, 4e, Alternity Gamma World, d20m Gamma World, 4e D&D Gamma World.
TSRs Marvel Superheroes RPG.
Amazing Engine Metamorphosis Alpha, System 26 Metamorphosis Alpha.
Star Frontiers (I also stupidly bought Zebulons Guide)
1st ed Boot Hill. Though thats more a wargame.
TSR's Conan RPG and D&D Conan.

Beyond the Supernatural and Nightbane
TNMT and After the Bomb
Robotech, Southern Cross, Mospeada, Sentinels and Macross II.
Palladium
Rifts and quite a few supplements including Mechanoids, Wormwood, Undersea, Japan, and some others.

1st and 2nd ed Albedo.

1st ed Shadowrun.

Torg.

Dragon Storm

1st and 2nd ed Vampire, 1st or 2nd ed Werewolf (not sure anymore) 2nd ed Mage and Wraith(I think) and Mummy.
Aberrant and Trinity.

SPIs Universe

AHs Standard RuneQuest.

1st Ed Warhammer Fantasy RPG.

Melee and Wizard.

Not sure what edition Tunnels & Trolls.

Not sure what edition Gurps and Gurps Bunnies & Burrows.

2nd Edition Big Eyes Small Mouth and two expansions.

Think 2nd Meckton as well as Zeta and Plus. Though more wargame and less RPG depending.

Dominion RPG and Votoms RPG.

Furry Outlaws and Furry Pirates.

Justifiers

Prairie Dogs Life

Mythic
FU

And a bunch of others not sure on anymore. I used to collect any RPG that caught my interest. Also not including things I've lost to theft. alot of which still havent replaced.

also have a bunch of stuff as PDFs have bought over the years.

Adding to all that also have access to one of my players Gurps collection that includes Cyberpunk 2020, Champions, Buck Rogers, Birthright, Hero System (not sure what), 1st ed BESM and quite a few supplements, and 3e D&D.

Of those there are several I keep coming back to as noted in other threads.
Gamma world, Star Frontiers, Universe, BX and AD&D, Albedo, and some others.

I usually have a varied and everchanging library.

My current rule for a book is "unused for 3 years = gets sold on eBay". The only exceptions are beloved rarities, but even those have been tossed back over the years. And by "used", I mean referenced or played for books, but for boardgames, it means actual play.

I used to worry about missing stuff, but if I ever miss anything, its easy to snag on PDF or rebuy on eBay.

I effectively have used eBay as a personal library since its early days. Over time, I am sure I broke even or profited from all the sales and purchases.

My current library is heavily Gamma World as I am culling ideas from various editions for my own creations.