Does anyone have this? A shitload of books and sourcebooks and editions of a game you don't play anymore (and can't imagine yourself playing again), or perhaps never played?

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For the longest time I had stacks and stacks of (1e) Heavy Gear source material.  If I'd gone ahead and purchased the rest of the stuff I'd planned to the stack would've grown to double the size (I had all the A.S.T. sourcebooks, and was aiming at growing the collection to encompass stuff for the north, too).

Glad I didn't; they plan (planned?) to grow the story line like Babylon-5.  I'd be chasing the finish line for quite a while.

Despite the resources I could never get an HG game going for an extended period of time, so 99% of it never ever got used.

Quote from: RPGPundit;360897Does anyone have this? A shitload of books and sourcebooks and editions of a game you don't play anymore (and can't imagine yourself playing again), or perhaps never played?

- 1E AD&D
- 3E/3.5E D&D
- 4E D&D
- Pathfinder adventure paths

With respect to particular settings:

- 3E/3.5E Forgotten Realms
- 3.5E Eberron
- 3E/d20 Scarred Lands
- 3.5E/Pathfinder Golarion

Nope. I gave away my AD&D stuff a couple years ago, and I'm not a collector type.

-clash

Quote from: ggroy;360899- 1E AD&D

Soooo...how, uh how many books and what're you planning on doing with 'em?  

(all kidding aside?  Insofar as I play AD&D a lot, I have all the books I'll ever need, and I need more like I need a hole in my head! ... which, come to think of it, I'm having a hole put in my head on Friday, so maybe I do need more... )

I still have a mess of oWoD books, though pared down significantly from my original collection (and a couple of them I've even re-bought).  Every time I pick one up and try to read it, I am pained -- pained, I tell you -- with embarrassment at how juvenile and ridiculous they are, and I can't put them back on the shelf quickly enough.  But I loved the games c.1991-95, and for some reason I want to hang onto them.

The old BRP/RuneQuest collection, on the other hand, goes back into semi-regular circulation enough to justify its prominence.

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Yep bunch of D&D 3x stuff, WFRP 1st ed (some 2nd edition), Shadowrun, White Wolf, misc one offs and others.

Some I like to keep because they are nice to read through again for readings sake.   Others because I can't find anyone else that wants to buy them and I've been to lazy to list them on Ebay.

Quote from: thedungeondelver;360901Soooo...how, uh how many books and what're you planning on doing with 'em?  

About two big boxes of 1E/2E stuff.  (Mostly 1E).

When I'm bored, I'll sometimes look up some old 1E modules.

Quote from: kryyst;360906I've been to lazy to list them on Ebay.

Same here.

I 'inherited' a good sized pile of OWOD books. Never played the actual game but some of the stuff gave me ideas for other horror games.

Even for games have played I've got quite a few books whose contents have never made it to the table.

Quote from: RPGPundit;360897Does anyone have this? A shitload of books and sourcebooks and editions of a game you don't play anymore (and can't imagine yourself playing again), or perhaps never played?

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I technically don't play Deadlands Classic and I have everything released for it, Hell on Earth and Lost Colony...but its all still usable source material for Deadlands Reloaded.

I have a bunch of Star Wars D6 stuff that may or may not see use for future Star Wars Saga Edition games, but I doubt I ever run Star Wars D6 again.

Those are the two biggies in my collection.

No, everything that I keep around, I use. The stuff that I do not use ends up being sold to help fund the games that I do use.

I make an exception in Classic Traveller stuff, which keeps showing up at the local McKays (used book store) and I pick it up cheap. Old issues of Space Gamer are giving me ideas for current scenarios (so it gets used as well).

I once had the entire run of Legend of the Five Rings 1st and 2nd Edition. I read most of the books but never played the game.

It was madness.

I sold most of the books a couple of years ago after they had languished on the shelves for over ten years unplayed.

I still have the fairly rare boxed sets, which I'm looking to sale, but this crazy collection finally got me to look at my buying habits. I'm no longer a collector or a completist so it was well worth the expensive experience.

At one point I had just about everything ever published for Cyberpunk 2020 (including a lot of third party stuff) and I'm about 99% certain I'll never play that game again. I suppose technically I still have that stuff but it's boxed up in my mom's basement and probably all mildewy and water-damaged (and that's the best case scenario if she hasn't just thrown it all away and not bothered to tell me...).

I also have hundreds of Traveller products (literally -- again including lots of third party stuff, fanzines, etc.) the overwhelming majority of which will almost certainly never see in-game use (especially the TNE, T4, GURPS Traveller, T20, and 2300 AD stuff). I figure chances are pretty good I'll play Traveller again someday, but when I do it will be with the original edition rules (or possibly MegaTraveller) and the chances that I'll actually feel the need to reference something from some random issue of, say, "The Imperium Staple" fanzine are infinitessimally small.

Most of the Pathfinder Golarion setting stuff (and APs) I picked up, was largely used for my 4E D&D game over fall 2008 -> 2009.  The Pathfinder core book was not released at the time.  Though by the time the Pathfinder core book was available in September 2009, my 4E game was starting to fall apart anyways.  (ie.  We went from playing weekly to biweekly, and eventually to once a month, as fall 2009 dragged on).

After a lackluster go at playing the WotC "Keep on the Shadowfell" module over the summer of 2008, the subsequent WotC 4E supplement books released at the time (summer->early fall 2008) were not particularly impressive (ie. 4E Forgotten Realms, H2 + H3 + P1 modules, etc ...).  So I decided to check out the Pathfinder stuff, where the Golarion campaign setting book just happened to be released around that time (September/October 2008).  I thought the Pathfinder stuff was a lot better than the 4E WotC stuff at the time, despite being written for the 3.5E ruleset.  With the 4E ruleset and simplified DMG guidelines for constructing encounters and monsters, it was relatively easy to convert a lot of the Pathfinder stuff to 4E.

Over the rest of 2009, most of the 4E titles released weren't particularly impressive either.

Now that my 4E game abruptly ended last month, I now have an entire shelf full of 4E D&D and Pathfinder books which I'll probably never use again.