I own plenty of stuff I don't currently play, but very little I've never played, and nothing I've collected with no intention to play, with the exception of Interstellar Elite Combat, which I picked up because it was cheap, and looked rare and vaguely interesting.

The vast bulk of my collection is non-D&D-based, although I do have the 3 core AD&D books, Chainmail, 3E and a few splats, the 4E core books with a couple of extra books, and Godbound.

On a quick scan across my shelves, I counted 30 RPG systems.

My gaming library is ridiculously varied, thanks mainly to the review business.

OK, I think I should give a more structured answer:).

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

No way can you make me count all my PDFs, but it's well in the triple numbers.

QuoteIs your stuff all D&D/OSR related?

Hell no:D!

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

Are you kidding me?

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

Yes, of course. In fact, they see way more than the D&D/OSR ones;)!

I own no actual D&D books, but I do own a couple of books for Shadow of the Demon Lord and two OSR products: Silent Legions and Crypts & Things.

I own a ton of other systems, lots of which I haven't played. A large chunk of my book collection consists of Call of Cthulhu and other BRP/d100 stuff.

Quote from: 3rik;1024966I own no actual D&D books, but I do own a couple of books for Shadow of the Demon Lord and two OSR products: Silent Legions and Crypts & Things.

I own a ton of other systems, lots of which I haven't played. A large chunk of my book collection consists of Call of Cthulhu and other BRP/d100 stuff.

Huh. Interesting. You're quite an exception for this forum I think, having no D&D books.

Quote from: RPGPundit;1025238Huh. Interesting. You're quite an exception for this forum I think, having no D&D books.

I was introduced to RPGs in the early 90s by a group whose go-to system at the time was GURPS. Hence I sort of 'skipped' D&D until recently I finally got to play a 5E one-shot. It was a fun game but I haven't felt the urge to buy any 5E material myself.

I must say 3.0, 3.5, Pathfinder and 4.0 never appealed much to me but later on I could see the appeal of the OSR. However, it was never a nostalgia thing for me and by that time I already owned enough other fantasy games. I got Silent Legions because of its Lovecraftian/Cthulhian application and Crypts & Things because of the specific genre it aims to emulate.

I own the D&D 5E Player's Handbook, but that's strictly for use with AiME.  I don't own any other D&D books, unless Buck Rogers XXVc counts.

Quote from: RPGPundit;1025238Huh. Interesting. You're quite an exception for this forum I think, having no D&D books.

Not really. I don't own D&D books, either, except for OD&D and retroclones:).
They're not missed, and that's putting it politely. In fact, my wife still thinks I own too much D&D, and not enough d100, Unisystem and Exalted;).
I've got to admit that she's probably right. Still, I think it's Traveller that I can stand to add to my library:D!

Quote from: AsenRG;1025842Not really. I don't own D&D books, either, except for OD&D and retroclones:).
They're not missed, and that's putting it politely. In fact, my wife still thinks I own too much D&D, and not enough d100, Unisystem and Exalted;).
I've got to admit that she's probably right. Still, I think it's Traveller that I can stand to add to my library:D!

I also own quite a bit of stuff for Unisystem. Other smaller chunks of my book collection are for GenreDiversion and Colonial Gothic.
Apart from the pocket edition of the core rulebook I never really got into Traveller, mainly because I have a couple of other scifi games to fill that niche (HardNova II, Thousand Suns, River of Heaven).

I don't enjoy World of Darkness anymore but there's a small box of that as well. That's up for trade/sale, by the way. Never saw the appeal of other White Wolf games like Scion and Exalted so there's none of that on my bookshelves.

Physically my collection is mostly Savage Worlds, Pathfinder, and Bare Bones Fantasy. I had an extensive Earthdawn collection but sold it before I moved in with my current fiancee since I haven't played the game since 2013 as well as some D&D Third and Fourth Edition stuff I hadn't played since 2009 or so (and some other books like Shatterzone which I hadn't played since like 1998, Rifts, Rolemaster, Trinity, Fading Suns, Demonworld, etc.)

My PDF collection is pretty huge. A lot of Earthdawn, Blue Planet, Fading Suns, Savage Worlds, Pathfinder, Bare Bones Fantasy, a smattering of AD&D to D&D 5e, Chaos 6010, OneDice, Pirates & Dragons, Neverwhere, MindJammer, TORG, Cards & Quests, Warzone, Index Card RPG, Fate, ERA of War. And probably more on backup extension drives.

I mostly play Savage Worlds though, it is just easier with the physical books. It also helps that they don't take as much shelf space as most of the books I sold. Especially when you have so many shelves of DramaScape and Grey Matter Games maps and figure flats made...lol But I love papercrafting, finding it relaxing while playing familiar stories like Deep Space Nine in the background as I work. There is also an entire shelf of board games in the basement too so more space taken up there.

The variety of my gaming books is less than it used to be (I got rid of a lot of stuff, over the years).

Actively used stuff (i.e., current or within the last year or so)

Original D&D books
AD&D 1e books
Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea books
Various OSR materials (zines, supplements, adventures)
Chaosium BRP Gold Book
Call of Cthulhu stuff
Chaosium RQ stuff
BRP material from third party publishers
I.C.E. RM2 & MERP stuff

Inactive stuff (over a year or more)

AD&D 2e stuff (more)
D&D 3e stuff (more)
Mongoose RQ stuff (more)
RQ6 stuff (over a year)
Villains & Vigilantes (more)
Flashing Blades (over a year)
Privateers & Gentlemen (more)
Bushido (more)
Lejendary Adventure (more)
Dangerous Journeys: Mythus (more)
Castles & Crusades (more)
Prince Valiant (more)
Amber (more)
Lords of Olympus (more)
Harn (more)
The Morrow Project (more)
Traveller (more)

I have a lot of board games and war games. Those have received more play than in the past. Most commonly played board game is Arkham Horror. Most commonly played war game is Field of Glory.

Well, not as many as Estar.

I have a few hundred RPG books. I have some AD&D 2nd Edition, 3rd Edition, and 3.5 Edition books, including a couple of boxed sets (Legend of Spelljammer, Secrets of the Lamp, First Quest, and a few others), totaling perhaps fifty individual tomes; I have the Serenity hardback, even though I'm not really into Firefly; I have the Shadowrun 2nd Edition and 4th Edition Corebooks; I have less than a dozen Call of Cthulhu books; I have the entire original run of Wraith: The Oblivion, of which I am somewhat proud; I have all but two of the original run of Changeling: The Dreaming; I have over a score of Cyberpunk 2020 sourcebooks.

I have at least four dozen Vampire: The Masquerade books, a like amount of Werewolf: The Apocalypse books, significantly more Mage: The Ascension books, the complete run of Werewolf: The Wyld West books, all but three or four of the Kindred of the East line, about fifty West End Star Wars D6 sourcebooks, at least forty Vampire: The Dark Ages books, Legend of the Five Rings 4th Edition, most of the Marvel Superheroes Adventure Game line, all three of the Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game books, most of the DCU Roleplaying Game books (including the JSA Sourcebook, which is apparently hard to find), Adventure!, a dozen books for Aberrant, at least thirty Champions sourcebooks, the WEG Men in Black boxed set, and a couple of Scion sourcebooks.

I think of it as a fairly respectable collection.

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

Uhm, 1000+? Five large bookcases full. Using Tetsubo's linear feet system (TM), I'm at ~82ft.

Quote from: RPGPunditIs your stuff all D&D/OSR related?

Hardly any of it. I sold almost everything in that category when I realized I just didn't care about the game system and most of the material wasn't really that great. I kept a few AD&D1 core items and a few things that I actually did find to be well written, but that's probably only 30-40 books.

Quote from: RPGPunditDo you just have a few non-D&D books?

Well, clearly not.

Quote from: RPGPunditIf you have a big variety of them, do you use them?

As much as I can, which unfortunately isn't that much. I just don't have the time to play often these days. I read as much as I can though, to spur ideas.


Here's what it all is:

-= Collection - each is 99%+ complete =-
Harn
Ars Magica
WFRP1, WFRP2
BRP based games - BRP, Stormbringer, CoC, RQ, Pendragon, Elfquest, obscure stuff like Mythworld and Worlds Beyond, etc. etc. - this is easily half of what I have
Hackmaster5 (plus older Kalamar material)
Aces & Eights
MERP1

-= More Selective - I have what I think could be useful =-
AD&D1, old "generic" fantasy, OSR - as I mentioned above, basically anything I think was particularly well written / useful
GURPS3, GURPS4 - all the generically useful historical / world sorts of books (Espionage, Japan, Aztecs, Mysteries, etc.)
Miscellaneous shelf - Toon, Bushido, Price Of Freedom, etc.

I´ve sold off most of my stuff recently, and still have lots of books and boxes up for sale right now.
This is what I´m keeping:

Drakar & Demoner 1 & 2 + some books/fanzines (Worlds of Wonder Magic World in Swedish. What I usually GM)
Traveller Box + CotI + Mg Traveller pocket (Trying to referee a campaign, but the group haven´t met for a long time. Everything fits in the box!)
Gurps Space + Magic (for use with Traveller and BRP)
OD&D white box + Chainmail + Greyhawk (It´s easy to get players interrested in OD&D, and now we´re actually painting up some minis to play Chanimail!).
30-50 miniatures (Ral partha, Grenadier etc).
A few D&D adventures, AD&D Monster manuals + some OSR stuff
Dying Earth (never played, but I like Vance)
Dragon Warriors 1-6 + one issue of White Dwarf (I havent played this forever, but I´ve got my houserules written in the books, and I could run a campaign with no prep at all).

Quote from: zx81;1027325Dragon Warriors 1-6 + one issue of White Dwarf (I havent played this forever, but I´ve got my houserules written in the books, and I could run a campaign with no prep at all).

Just brilliant.:cool: