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.
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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.
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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.
I have far more non-D&D books than D&D books. I really only own about a dozen or so D&D books, all 5e compatible, which is on-par with how much Unisystem I own. I have a huge selection of FFG RPGs (mostly the WH40K lines and those damnable Star Wars lines) along with a complete set of WFRP 2e. I also have a lot of L5R (3rd and 4th editions) Shadowrun (multiple editions, but mostly 3e & 4e), and Savage Worlds stuff. I own two sets of Decipher's Star Trek line and a full set of the LUG Star Trek line too. Mutants & Masterminds 2e & 3e also have a strong showing and I still have a full set of Exalted 1e (only!) books. Then there are the assorted "orphans" of the collection that I pick up on a whim (like Zweihander, Corolis, Cold & Dark, Polaris, and more).
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?
Outside of actual play? Probably 3 game system books, because they use different game systems. None of them are related in any way.
Quote from: RPGPundit;1023171So, outside of what you actually play, how many different game system books do you own?
Quite a few
QuoteIs your stuff all D&D/OSR related?
Nope.
QuoteDo you just have a few non-D&D books?
Nope.
QuoteIf you have a big variety of them, do you use them?
Yep.
To give you an idea of what's in my library, and I've lost a lot of RPG books when moving from AK to WA, and regained some of them through buying used.
Mutant Chronicles 1st edition.
Mekton II.
Basic & Expert D&D. (Moldvay)
The Basic D&D compendium.
1st Edition AD&D.
2nd edition AD&D.
The collected original Traveller rulebooks reprint.
Pathfinder.
3rd Edition D&D.
4th Edition D&D.
Lots of Rifts.
The Robotech books that cover Macross, Southern Cross, Invid Invasion and The Sentinels.
And odds and ends like Fiend Folio, the original Dark Sun setting boxed set. (Quite happy with that find.)
I plan to pick up 5th edition D&D, but I'm not in a hurry. I also want to get the FFG reprints of the WEG Star Wars books, when they come out.
I'd like to get Shadowrun 1st edition and Earthdawn 1st edition, physical copies.
I don't play D&D, but mostly play TFT (nearly everything) & GURPS (mountains of GURPS books).
The only D&D books I have (or ever owned) are the three from the 0D&D whitebox. I tried to play it but couldn't make sense of it.
I read various Basic D&D and AD&D books belonging to friends and even ran some limited sessions for them when I was about 11 years old.
I have Gamma World. Thought it was nothing I would ever play, though I did steal its random mutant tables for wild random extraplanar summons results inspiration in GURPS a couple of times, just to be unlike anything I'd think up myself.
I got Star Frontiers at a thrift store, read as much as I could stand, found nothing I could use and gave it back.
I think the only TSR stuff I have that I like playing are the boardgames The Awful Green Things From Outer Space and Snits Revenge.
I have quite a few RPG books for various other games, all of which I have read at least partially, and some of which I've tried to play or intend to eventually try playing experimentally, or to refer to eventually to use some snippets for some other games. Mostly they end up getting me thinking "huh, that'd not occur to me, and I wouldn't do it that way, but it gives me ideas of things to do" or just "how would that play out in GURPS? would that be a fun exercise?"
Not very, but what I have is mostly complete
AD&D
Classic Traveller
WEG Star Wars
Shadowrun 1st to 3rd Edition (including novels)
Call of Cthulhu 1st to 6th edition (excluding 3rd party stuff mostly).
Star Frontiers
And a lot of d20 crap.
Not really varied anymore.
Runequest
Stormbringer
HarnMaster
Rolemaster
AD&D with some B/X, and some OSR stuff.
Warp World/Time Lords
Chivalry & Sorcery
Traveller
Frontier Space (both books) is on its way.
There's probably more, but it's still boxed up from when I moved in June.
I have been thinning my collection, but I still have quite a large collection, with quite some variety.
In print I have:
OD&D, AD&D, Holmes Basic, BX, BECM, D&D 3.5, EPT, Arcana Evolved, and some other stuff in there, plus a variety of supplements and modules
RuneQuest (1st ed, 2nd ed, 3rd ed) and lots of supplements and modules, Ring World, Elfquest,
Classic Traveller (1977), plus a bunch of supplements and adventures, Mongoose Traveller 1st ed
EPT, Swords & Glory, plus a modest (reduced) collection of supplements
Talislanta 1st ed through 3rd ed plus most of the supplements (plus 4th ed on my chopping block)
Burning Wheel Revised, Burning Wheel Gold, Burning Empires, Mouse Guard, Torchbearer
Dogs in the Vinyard, Sorceror, and a few more "indie/Forge" games
Thieves Guild and pretty much all the supplements
Gamma World
Universe, Star Patrol, Space Opera, By the Light of Other Suns, and a few more SF games
Gurps 3rd ed
Champions
Arduin Grimoire Volumes 1-3
I'm sure I'm missing some random things that are buried somewhere
In print magazines I have complete runs of Dungeon Magazine and Different Worlds and an almost complete run of White Dwarf up through #70 or so, and small collections of other magazines
In PDF I have a lot more:
All the Classic Traveller CD-ROMs, MegaTraveller, GURPS Traveller Ships
Pretty much all the D&D stuff I have in print
Most of the RuneQuest stuff
Dogs in the Vinyard, Torchbearer, and some other "indie/Forge" stuff
A variety of OSR stuff
Lots of D20 stuff (I divested myself of most of the hard copy, but still have lots of purchased PDFs)
Talislanta (it's all legitimately available for free)
Various miscellaneous stuff, I'm really not sure what all is hiding on my hard disk
I have ditched tons of stuff I decided I would never play or use.
These days my purchases are made with great care. They pretty much need to be something that supports my primary game interests (OD&D, Classic Traveller, RuneQuest, and Burning Wheel).
Frank
I had a lot more stuff until about 6 months ago. I gave away or sold my GURPS collection (except for Dungeon Fantasy). I gave away or sold almost all of my AD&D stuff. I gave away my S&W stuff. I have my Aces & Eights stuff. Gave away my HackMaster and Kalamar stuff. I am pretty much down to my Palladium Books games and AiME. I have the core 5E books strictly for AiME.
I decided to stop buying books for games I'm not going to play. My group likes Palladium. My daughters like Palladium. I like Palladium. I like GURPS a lot too but it's so hard to get players into it because there isn't an entry point. So Palladium it is.
So, outside of what you actually play, how many different game system books do you own?
Depends upon how far back you measure, because I have a few systems that I haven't used in years, but did at one time, and might again some day. Have never played and probably won't, I'd say less than 15 books over less than 7 systems. It is probably less than that, but I'm allowing for oddballs books stashed where I've forgotten them.
Is your stuff all D&D/OSR related?
My D&D systems tend to be more complete (though none are all the way there), and thus a greater number of books, but I have more variety and systems represented in the non-D&D stuff. OSR is a fairly minor component, as the subject matter of huge swaths of OSR products doesn't appeal, even if the systems do.
Do you just have a few non-D&D books?
As above, numerically a small percentage, but representing several systems.
If you have a big variety of them, do you use them?
The only books on my shelf that I don't ever use, or even consider using, are my D&D 3E books (which I did use a lot, once), a stripped down version of Reign, and a few books from Riddle of Steel. The latter two I find thought-provoking to read. Maybe they count as used, given that. Anything I don't use tends to get tossed. I'm only hanging onto the D&D 3E books to give to a friend that is currently overseas. When those go, the entire collection will fit on a 30 inch by 6 foot bookcase, with room left for considerable growth.
My "gaming collection" has always included books that aren't about gaming, but that I find useful in gaming. For example, I have a book on oared warships by a naval historian, that I find extremely helpful. But I also enjoy reading it for its own sake. I just picked up a Culver's herb book, which is not a terribly scintillating read, but should be useful for some things I have planned. That one is, for me, a gaming book, even though it was written well before RPGs.
Like ChristopherKubasik, it's weighted heavily toward either the early years or after 2010. Only real exception is some Savage Worlds stuff from the late 2000s and Pendragon. Early stuff is D&D or Traveller. Rest is quite varied.
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My entire collection is probably a little smaller than estar's GURPS collection. Mostly fantasy, about half of which is Classic D&D/OSR related. I have a smaller number of Sci-Fi books, probably about 1/4 as many SF books as fantasy. This is physical books only (I probably have 2 or 3 times as many pdfs as physical books), although the ratio of fantasy to SF is probably the same for my pdf collection). No other genres or universal systems except for the old generic D6 cookbook from the 90s and Mini Six, and Dogs of War, a modern-ish BoL variant.
Non-D&D/OSR systems include mainly lighter systems I pick up because my interests lean that way and they were cheap enough that it didn't bother me too much at the time. Heroes and Other Worlds (a TFT clone), Age of Shadow (a D100/BRP derivative), Dragon Warriors, AFF, Ancient Odysseys: Treasure Awaits, Barbarians of Lemuria, Dungeonslayers...DW is probably the crunchiest of the bunch.
I think all my sci-fi is OSR based, like X-plorers, SWN, Tales of the Space Princess (not strictly OSR, but in the spirit)...other than WEG Star Wars.
I have used most of them, but many only once or twice.
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?
If we count only dead tree editions, I own only several games that I can count on my fingers. A significant part of them are new wave OSR games, because my tastes run to old-school lately.
If we count the PDFs, too, I have thousands of books without exaggerating. D&D and related systems are a small minority among those.
And yes, I use the whole varied group, usually running games from PDFs, with D&D and related systems taking up less than 5% of my gaming time.
I have a vast amount of stuff - more than Estar's pic. Indeed I had some young folks joking I should clear out some of my RPG books from my store room/spare room and give them a place to stay in London... :)
Although I have lots of non-D&D material, in recent years the great bulk of my playing time, and all my GMing, has been D&D and variants, including OSR stuff like White Star & Mutant Future. Just looking at stuff I have on the go GMing currently, there's my big 5e Wilderlands campaign and side games of 4e D&D Nentir Vale and 2e AD&D Council of Wyrms - I bought & printed the pdf out, put in a Dragonlance ring binder - my son/solo player complains that the cover image of humans riding dragons is highly derogatory. :D
Crazy amount of stuff. Over 700 boardgames and RPGs (inc. modules, etc), plus all those S&T, The General, and Dragon magazines.
And a few thousand painted miniatures.
And way too much terrain (inc. Dwarven Forge, et al).
So, rather varied.
No D&D books.
Mostly Shadowrun, followed closely by Powered by the Apocalypse, and then just cores like Runequest, Pendragon, Unknown Armies, Eclipse Phase, Mutant: Year Zero, Fate of the Norns, Dogs in the Vineyard, etc.
These days I play Shadowrun and PbtA, but I've used all my books at least once in my gaming life.
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: