Lately I've been thinking of how fun it would be to start a collection of every product Paizo has produced. Unfortunately I have no money and don't even own any print copies (just pdfs) so that hobby will have to wait for another day.
Anyone else have an interest in RPG collecting?
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If I didn't need wind up with a good portion of my collection damaged and molded (thus thrown out) in a flood a few years ago, and if I didn't need to sell off a good portion of my collection for much needed monies, I'd have a good sized library of 2E, 3E, 3.5, Pathfinder, and some other systems I plucked out of discount bins or garage sales when I had the cash.
One day, my collection will return to its former glory.... One day!
.... Still have all of my dice though... Well, most of them. Dice tend to get lost while moving around a lot.
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I'd love to collect more than I do. However, I also like keeping my power turned on and my rent paid.
If I didn't need wind up with a good portion of my collection damaged and molded (thus thrown out) in a flood a few years ago, and if I didn't need to sell off a good portion of my collection for much needed monies, I'd have a good sized library of 2E, 3E, 3.5, Pathfinder, and some other systems I plucked out of discount bins or garage sales when I had the cash.
One day, my collection will return to its former glory.... One day!
.... Still have all of my dice though... Well, most of them. Dice tend to get lost while moving around a lot.
Augh! That is so sad!
I know that you say the mold infection was caused by a catastrophic event, but the Acaeum has some great articles on how to deal with mold.
https://www.acaeum.com/library/library.html
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I sold my Rifts collection (every worldbook up to and including Dinosaur Swamp books) and 3.5 books to fund my pathfinder addiction... I mean collection, I regret nothing!! :-)
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I collect digitally now. I know of at least 1 person that has one of every Golarion & Pathfinder product, and when I say that I mean he buys a new copy of each printing of books.
I've seen a video of someone that has a copy of every single D&D (Official) product ever made plus every Pathfinder product.
I collect digitally now. I know of at least 1 person that has one of every Golarion & Pathfinder product, and when I say that I mean he buys a new copy of each printing of books.
I've seen a video of someone that has a copy of every single D&D (Official) product ever made plus every Pathfinder product.
That is. amazing
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That is. amazingI collect digitally now. I know of at least 1 person that has one of every Golarion & Pathfinder product, and when I say that I mean he buys a new copy of each printing of books.
I've seen a video of someone that has a copy of every single D&D (Official) product ever made plus every Pathfinder product.
The really amazing part is having every issue of Dungeon and Dragon magazine.
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A friend downloaded every issue of Dragon and Dungeon magazines and gave me a copy. I don't collect as much Pathfinder stuff as I used to but I do get most everything PF related from Kobold Press and Frog God Games.
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yes, perhaps I have a bad habit. I try to collect the APs like magazines. I even have it in duplicate, one for playing/reading and one for packing (like collectables).
However, right now I am FAAAAAR behind on reading the APs or getting caught up. Sometimes I wonder if I should keep on going as I still have dozens of issues to read and wonder if I'll ever catch up.
In that light some would say I collect the AP just to collect the APs.
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I go through phases but I can't deny a certain obsessiveness with RPG collections. It's not important to me that it be a large collection, but it has to be complete. Once I bought a few Dungeon magazines, I had to get all of them. I've never played Numenera, but since I began buying it I keep on top of releases - both from Monte Cook Games and third party stuff). It still bugs me that I dont quite have all the flipmats; I missed out on the first few and have to mentally tell myself they weren't really Paizo product back then, so what I have still counts. :(
I don't actually use much of it anymore as we don't skip around trying new systems and settings like we used to. However, I read a lot and plunder rules ideas from other games for the system I run. From time to time when the collection gets unwieldy I go through some serious purging. One of the hazards of being a completionist in such a small print-run industry is that it's ultimately an unachievable goal. Even knowing everything that's potentially available is a task sometimes.
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I go through phases but I can't deny a certain obsessiveness with RPG collections. It's not important to me that it be a large collection, but it has to be complete. Once I bought a few Dungeon magazines, I had to get all of them. I've never played Numenera, but since I began buying it I keep on top of releases - both from Monte Cook Games and third party stuff). It still bugs me that I dont quite have all the flipmats; I missed out on the first few and have to mentally tell myself they weren't really Paizo product back then, so what I have still counts. :(
I don't actually use much of it anymore as we don't skip around trying new systems and settings like we used to. However, I read a lot and plunder rules ideas from other games for the system I run. From time to time when the collection gets unwieldy I go through some serious purging. One of the hazards of being a completionist in such a small print-run industry is that it's ultimately an unachievable goal. Even knowing everything that's potentially available is a task sometimes.
I relate a lot. Once I have one of a thing, I have to have all of a thing.
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Lately I've been thinking of how fun it would be to start a collection of every product Paizo has produced. Unfortunately I have no money and don't even own any print copies (just pdfs) so that hobby will have to wait for another day.
Anyone else have an interest in RPG collecting?
Oh goodness yes. I've got a bunch of classics. Some of the old supplements from Role-aids, old D&D stuff but not the really old stuff(doesn't have as much meaning to me as, say, planescape). I'm on the look out for a pristine Ravenloft The Light in the Belfry.
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My PDF collection at this point is pretty big...I don't really have the space though for much stuff in print, except for hardcovers that are really too big to enjoyably read.
I don't have all the campaign setting books for instance on PDF, but I have a pretty large chunk of them, at least the 3.5 ones.
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Collecting RPGs is a hobby of mine. I don't have the whole print Pathfinder yet (though I have all the core books). But in print I have virtually all D&D 3.0/3.5 books (save for the 3.5 FR reprints). About half of the D&D Gazetteers, 1st ed D&D core books All 2nd ed D&D Core and Ravenloft, Dragonlance and Dark Sun supplements. All d20 Ravenloft supplements, All 7th Sea (even the d20 books) all L5R (every edition and the d20 books), 90% of Werewolf, all Kindred of the East, all Blue Planet, all Fading Suns, all Tales from the Floating Vagabond, 90% of Gary Gayax's Dangerous Journeys, all 1st ed Exalted, all FASA Star Trek, all d20 Star Wars, 2nd ed Paranoia, Transhuman Space, Mechwarrior, 1ed Rune Quest and CoC ....
I'm going stop here as this is starting to sound like bragging. Let's just say I'm like collecting, my wife worked at a gaming shop when we were dating (employee discount helped with late 90s and early 2000 game collections and first pick when folks came into sell their old games with others) and I have been gaming for 30 years (ugh feel old. I still have my D&D Red Box, my first d6, d10 and d20 (don't know where the d4,d8 and d12 went) and the handful of Endless Quest books that got me into gaming in the first place.
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I have about 80% of all the Dragon Magazines and all the dark brown cover "generic" 3.5 books and splatbooks. Everything else is sort of hit and miss.
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Much the same need as the OP. Though thankfully I had enough space and budget to do it. A few AP books are missing but not that many :-)
Only thing I did not follow so closely is the novels.
I also have lot of White Wolf's stuff (almost 1st WoD only though), Shadowrun, Ars Magica, French RPGs and some collectible stuff too, as well as some older DnD and 3.5.
Will need to get rid of several though, as I need to make place for the baby's arrival, prepare for moving in a smaller space and, if possible, make some money out of it.
I will hold on my Paizo and collectibles as long as I can though. Part of my legacy :-)
I once came very close to buying Deities and Demigods with the Melnibonean and Cthulhu stuff in it.
Apart from that, I'm not too upset.
I don't think there is anyone who doesn't know about FGG's Kickstarter by now, but just in case.
Here is the link.
It takes the previously issued Northlands Saga modules and includes them and about 10 more plus some Gazetteer information on the Northlands of The Lost Lands. It's looking to be comparable to Slumbering Tsar is size.
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I once came very close to buying Deities and Demigods with the Melnibonean and Cthulhu stuff in it.
Apart from that, I'm not too upset.
I have it. I do not plan on selling it though ;-)
One of my acquaintances has all the original DnD Boxed sets, in French for those that were translated. I have only the first two boxes (Blue and Red). Every time I go to his place, I kneel and worship before the pile of boxes :-)
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Viva la France!
I own the 3.5 hardback super adventures "Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk" and "The Drow of Underdark". I want "Expedition to Castle Ravenloft" and "Expedition to Undermountain" to complete the set.
expedition to Undermountain is terrible! i used to have that and Ravenloft (which is pretty good for 3.5 but needs work and isn't quite as good as the old school Ravenloft stuff) but yeah i know the desire for a complete collection but don't overspend on Undermountain it's not worth it.
i would love to get my hands on the original under mountain boxed sets tho, them's good s!+&:-D
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Bad or not, I'd still like to have them to complete the set. I'm weird that way. I'll never get to run any of them, but it bugs the part of me that's a bit OCD that I don't have them.
I have about 80% of all the Dragon Magazines
It seems I've lost the boxes that had all the 3.0/3.5 Dragon Magazine boxes in a move. This truly makes me heart sick as I had so many of the magazine's total run.
Bummer Cal, sorry for your loss.
Thanks, Cap'n.
I once came very close to buying Deities and Demigods with the Melnibonean and Cthulhu stuff in it.
Apart from that, I'm not too upset.
That was the first book I ever bought with my allowance. I had it up until my ex-wife went on a fit burning things. I may have to pick up a new one just for sentimental sake.
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I've been collecting a _lot_ of PDFs of the Buck Rogers XXVc game. I love that game, mostly because I loved the Sega Genesis version of it when I was younger.
That said, I've also got on my shelf of Things I'll Probably Never Play:
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I have one near mint condition. The only flaw is someone put a sticker on the inside of the front cover to write their name on. Getting it off the paper would damage it, so I just left it on. I have no intention of selling it, anyway.
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I have one near mint condition. The only flaw is someone put a sticker on the inside of the front cover to write their name on. Getting it off the paper would damage it, so I just left it on. I have no intention of selling it, anyway.
"From my cold dead hands" pretty much sums up how I feel toward getting parted from my RPG collectibles.
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I once came very close to buying Deities and Demigods with the Melnibonean and Cthulhu stuff in it.
Apart from that, I'm not too upset.
I have it. I do not plan on selling it though ;-)
One of my acquaintances has all the original DnD Boxed sets, in French for those that were translated. I have only the first two boxes (Blue and Red). Every time I go to his place, I kneel and worship before the pile of boxes :-)
I haven't showed me my OD&D "white box" yet ? :)
I also have the Fiend Folio authographed by Gary himself.
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A friend downloaded every issue of Dragon and Dungeon magazines and gave me a copy.
I have paper copies of all the Dragon issues, plus the PDF collection of #1-250 they released years ago. I have almost no Dungeons, but most of the Polyhedrons.
Collecting RPGs is a hobby of mine. I don't have the whole print Pathfinder yet (though I have all the core books). But in print I have virtually all D&D 3.0/3.5 books (save for the 3.5 FR reprints).
I'm selling most of my 3.0/3.5 stuff along with some Pathfinder. The FR stuff is already gone, but PM me if you have any gaps you'd like to fill.
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I relate a lot. Once I have one of a thing, I have to have all of a thing.
Preach it, brother!
For a long time I was working on building a decently comprehensive game library. Not just D&D/Pathfinder, but HERO System, Call of Cthulhu, every superhero RPG I could find and too many independent games to count. In one bedroom of my house, three walls are lined with floor to ceiling shelves filled with RPGs of various sorts.
Unfortunately, there's also a card table and a 6' folding table sagging under the weight of even more stuff, and more every month from Paizo. After 37 years of accumulating gaming books, I've reluctantly decided I have to divest. A lot.
This makes me inexpressibly sad, because I like collecting RPG material, but have long since run out of space to do so. And because I don't like incomplete sets of things, if some books in a set are going to be sold, they all have to go. (I cannot, for example, help someone looking for Book 1 of an adventure path, but I can probably sell the whole AP with the unopened map folio.)
I'm selling most of my 3.0/3.5 stuff along with some Pathfinder. The FR stuff is already gone, but PM me if you have any gaps you'd like to fill.
Do you have these? "Expedition to Castle Ravenloft" and "Expedition to Undermountain"?
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I have about 80% of all the Dragon MagazinesIt seems I've lost the boxes that had all the 3.0/3.5 Dragon Magazine boxes in a move. This truly makes me heart sick as I had so many of the magazine's total run.
I've got a boxful that aren't currently seeing much action. If you're anywhere near Michigan, maybe we could talk. (I'd have to think about it some.) ^_^
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I'm selling most of my 3.0/3.5 stuff along with some Pathfinder. The FR stuff is already gone, but PM me if you have any gaps you'd like to fill.Do you have these? "Expedition to Castle Ravenloft" and "Expedition to Undermountain"?
Also, my local shop might have one or both of those. Send me a PM in a couple weeks and remind me to check.
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Kalindlara, you don't get told what a nice person you are nearly enough on here, a tip of my cap to you Madame!
It's true! You don't :-)
At the 24 hour grocery store right now because seasonal insomnia, and we needed groceries :-)
I have a huge pile of RPG games, many I may never get a chance to play (my group isn't all that adventurous when it comes to trying new game systems)
Still I like reading through them for ideas, some of my prizes
Amber Diceless system
Tenra Bansho Zero
Weapons of the Gods
Immortal (1st edition)
Eclipse Phase
CthulhuTech
I have a lifelong passion for RPG and tabletop games so my collection is fairly extensive. I probably have a lot more gaming material that I will ever have time to play (or possibly read!). I can't help it - it is a great time to be a gamer now with more fantastic gaming projects in the works than at any time I can remember due in part to crowdfunding services like Kickstarter / Indiegogo.
I have sourcebooks for corebooks that I don't own or for systems that I don't play, books still in their shrinkwrap. They occupy several bookcases in my home with several more storage boxes with yet more books due to lack of space.
There was a time I had a to-to-read pile that grew into a to-be-read shelf and eventually into a to-be-read bookcase. That bookcase is almost full. I caught up some when I was in hospital for 2 weeks but I guess I will have to wait for retirement before I can really get round to reading them properly.
Also, the dice! Over the 2 decades plus of adding a couple of sets of dice every now and then I realized I now have over 800+ dice. I am toying with the idea of getting a large goldfish bowl and using that to store ready dice for gaming sessions.
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I have roughly 700 dice, myself. I love 'em.