One of the big boxes I had tucked away in the garage and hasn't been touched in over a decade was just opened.  What treasure awaited me?


A shit ton of 2e stuff:
Al Qadim rulebook
About every "complete book of" you can think of
Arms and Equipment guide
Catacomb guide
Creative Campaigning (these last two are invaluable even if you're not playing 2e)
Villains
Giantcraft
Draconimion
Book of Drow
Encyclopedia Arcana
Wizard's spell compendium I and II
all of the 2e black border reprints (I already had my originals handy)
High level campain book
S&P and C&T books
Forgotten Realms boxed setting
Spellbound boxed set
Ruins of undermountain boxed set (now that's a true megadungeon.  I really like the cards that came along with it)
BECMI Creature Catalog book (orange border)
Ravenloft bestiary
Red Steel setting
A bunch of Forgotten Realms poster sized folded maps
A Balder's gate map (I think from the video game)
Core Rules 2.0 CD Rom with instruction book (I already had 1.0)

And quite a bit of Earthdawn stuff, although I never actually played it.  Not sure of the version, but it's all from 1993
Earthdawn setting
Parainth boxed set
Barsaive boxed set
Creatures of Earthdawn book
Earthdawn companion book

Quote from: Sacrosanct;687913One of the big boxes I had tucked away in the garage and hasn't been touched in over a decade was just opened.  What treasure awaited me?

Nice present from your younger self.

If that Earthdawn stuff is from 93, it'll be 1st ed.

We're getting ready to move in a few months, so we're going through this process -- but in reverse. As we pull stuff down from shelves and put everything into boxes, it's like a tour through the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s of gaming.

I need to do a checklist sometime to see if there are any of those "Complete" books we're missing. I know we have a LOT of them, but it's entirely possible we missed one somewhere.

Fun find, Sacrosanct!

Alas, the elation is tempered with knowing that I'll never actually play with most of that stuff

I bought a bunch of shit in the 90s, and never ended up finding anyone to play them with (like all the Earthdawn stuff).  But I don't want to get rid of it either

Heh. RPG Hoarders Anonymous.

Right there with you on that.

I'm *hoping* that, when we move in a few months, being closer to our friends will mean more gaming and mini-painting. We live in the back of beyond right now.

The Core Rules CD has been pretty helpful for me in that it has full text search for a TON of books, including all the Player's Option stuff and a good number of Complete books, too.

I don't think I ever owned Al Qadim. Definitely an oversight on my part.

Quote from: Sacrosanct;687913One of the big boxes I had tucked away in the garage and hasn't been touched in over a decade was just opened.  What treasure awaited me?


A shit ton of 2e stuff:
Al Qadim rulebook
About every "complete book of" you can think of
Arms and Equipment guide
Catacomb guide
Creative Campaigning (these last two are invaluable even if you're not playing 2e)
Villains
Giantcraft
Draconimion
Book of Drow
Encyclopedia Arcana
Wizard's spell compendium I and II
all of the 2e black border reprints (I already had my originals handy)
High level campain book
S&P and C&T books
Forgotten Realms boxed setting
Spellbound boxed set
Ruins of undermountain boxed set (now that's a true megadungeon.  I really like the cards that came along with it)
BECMI Creature Catalog book (orange border)
Ravenloft bestiary
Red Steel setting
A bunch of Forgotten Realms poster sized folded maps
A Balder's gate map (I think from the video game)
Core Rules 2.0 CD Rom with instruction book (I already had 1.0)

And quite a bit of Earthdawn stuff, although I never actually played it.  Not sure of the version, but it's all from 1993
Earthdawn setting
Parainth boxed set
Barsaive boxed set
Creatures of Earthdawn book
Earthdawn companion book

That's awesome, man. Did you forget you had all that stuff?

Start reading that stuff and experience once again all the love and effort poured into the creation of those awesome 2e campaign worlds. Detailed wondrous worlds for our imagination.

Quote from: Sacrosanct;687954Alas, the elation is tempered with knowing that I'll never actually play with most of that stuff

I bought a bunch of shit in the 90s, and never ended up finding anyone to play them with (like all the Earthdawn stuff).  But I don't want to get rid of it either

Damn! I was wondering if you wanted to bequeath any orphans to a new loving home.
:mad:

Quote from: 1989;687973That's awesome, man. Did you forget you had all that stuff?

Start reading that stuff and experience once again all the love and effort poured into the creation of those awesome 2e campaign worlds. Detailed wondrous worlds for our imagination.

I thought I had just lost them over the course of a few moves.  I just got done reading Al Qadim.  Excellent setting for running the I series modules again.  I'm definitely going to be reading Undermountain and mine it for some ideas for my megadungeon I'm working on.  For example, the trap/lure/snare card set I'm using for inspiration to put random traps in the dungeon.  So instead of having a set pit trap here, you'd roll and see what kind of trap it would be.  Gotta keep the PCs on their toes

Good times!  Most of that stuff could be useful with Next or any Edition.  If you have no use for it, you should donate it to me (Ill pay shipping) or some sort of kids gaming group.

I suppose I could scan the maps into my computer and run Ruins of Undermountain with Roll20 on a G+ hangout.  That would be a loooooong set of sessions

Hard thing about G+ is finding people who are free for more than the first couple of sessions. I wonder what the interest level would be for something like that.  Perhaps using Next's rules.

I wish I had those boxes. Awesome stuff.

Well ... in need of cash last year, I liquidated a lot of my 20- and 30-year old stuff to Noble Knight Games, as well as a couple private buyers for some of the more valuable bits, and realized nearly $400.  Might be you could get some pin money for some of those, if you don't figure you'll be playing them again.

That's awesome Sacro.

Some real gems were made for 2e.

For me, a lot of my old stock got the Xacto-knife treatment, and scanned and collected into PDF's, stored on multiple computers. I just can't justify lugging that many books around anymore (we tend to move frequently), but don't want to lose my collection.

If US IP law wasn't so screwy, I'd host them on file-sharing sites, since most of the books are OOP; but I don't feel like going to jail.

That's actual treasure!