As you can see, I am a Pathfinder Superscriber from nearly day 1.
I can easily enough put the AP's up on the board, as they are numbered for convenience, but the chronicles-books... not so much.
Even more troublesome are the modules. They bear a distinctive numbering system, but some of those are otherwise bound to be kept together...
Furthermore I have the problem, that I only have space in one row anymore, so no splitting up on different row possible.
So, how do you, or would you organise the books now, what is your system?
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My system is simple: I spend too much money on Paizo stuff, read it all when it comes then, leave it on my desk to build huge, dangerous piles. I then realise that I can't work at my desk and I put them in order of release (for Chronicles) and by letter order (for modules) and make a mental note as to which are located where.
What would be cool is if Paizo produce a regularly updated high-res .jpg of module locations like the one in the Campaign Guide and similar to what they did for Greyhawk over four issues of Dungeon (118-121, I think) and a .jpg of which they still host here, I believe. That would be really cool.
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Fairly similar to Bagpuss, only without the intermediate tower stage.
The order goes: Beta, Setting, Chronicles (Chronological order), Companions (Chronological order), Modules (Designation order), APs (intrespersed with AP related stuff like the Players Guides Map packs).
In short, no order that would make intuitive sense or be helpful in finding things. ;-)
I actually enjoy the chaos of randomly throwing books onto my gaming shelves wherever there is a space. Sometimes two Pathfinder books are next to each other, sometimes the Chill rulebook is in between. I don't purposefully place the PF books far away from one another, because that would then be another kind of order, but just shove 'em up there without thinking about it. Then, the shelf is a big ol' motley collection of 20+ years of gaming materials.
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I keep my APs on the shelf in order, with Player's guides before and map packs after. My modules are in chronolocial order. My Chronicles (and non-player's guide Companions) are also in chronological order.
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I seperate the 6-Part APs with the Intros and the Map Folios. I keep Chronicles with Chronicles and have the Companions behind those. The big books like the Campaign setting and the Beta are proudly first and foremost (still brings a tear to my eye).
As for my map packs and flipmats and accessories, they occupy an entirely different space, as do my item cards.
I am a Paizo freak and proud to be giving them whatever money they ask for.
Cheers,
Zuxius
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APs and map packs together, of course. Guides, Chronicle and Companion volumes that fit a path go with the path (i.e. Crimson Throne gets Korvosa, Second Darkness gets Shadowlands, may get Elves). Modules together by letter. Remaining chronicles, companions are sorted together by name. Cards go in their own stack.
*Sigh*
I wish I could offer words of advice. I'm afraid I'm just here to look for everybodies suggestions to the O.P. I moved several months ago, and my library was sent a head and unpacked and shelved before I arrived. Sadly, I just haven't had the energy to spend the day (or possibly two) to reorganize it.
If I were to offer advice I would put the AP's together along with the map folios. I would put the chronicle and companion lines with any relevant modules or AP's that they may touch upon: specifically Guide to Korvosa with Crimson Throne, the Second Darkness Character Guide Companion and the Darklands with Second Darkness ect. I would keep them arranged like that for several months... then I'd probably rearrange them, as that's what I do.
So, yeah, I'm no good with this type of advice.
My APs are sorted by number, with the addition of the map folio, the players guide and the item cards added. I have no special sorting for the companions and the other books. I have sorted the modules by date, but I´m thinking about re-sorting them by level - to find a fitting level range quickly.
Stefan
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APs and map packs together, of course. Guides, Chronicle and Companion volumes that fit a path go with the path (i.e. Crimson Throne gets Korvosa, Second Darkness gets Shadowlands, may get Elves). Modules together by letter. Remaining chronicles, companions are sorted together by name. Cards go in their own stack.
Similar here:
APs + Guide + map pack + fitting companion together,chronicles next to the Campaign Setting and beta rules,
modules sorted by letter.
I'd also welcome supporting overviews on
- where each product is being set and
- additionally which modules are interrelated.
Cheers,
Günther
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APs and map packs together, of course. Guides, Chronicle and Companion volumes that fit a path go with the path (i.e. Crimson Throne gets Korvosa, Second Darkness gets Shadowlands, may get Elves). Modules together by letter. Remaining chronicles, companions are sorted together by name. Cards go in their own stack.Similar here:
APs + Guide + map pack + fitting companion together,
chronicles next to the Campaign Setting and beta rules,
modules sorted by letter.I'd also welcome supporting overviews on
- where each product is being set and
- additionally which modules are interrelated.Cheers,
Günther
Hi Günther,
As to supporting overviews, check the Pathfinder Chronicles; Appendix A page 244 and 245. Here you'll find the locations for
Modules:
DO, D1, D1.5, D2, D3, E1, J1, J2, J3, LB1, LB2, TC1, U1, U2, W1, W2, W3,
Guides:
to Korvosa
to Darkmoon Vale
to Absalom
Adventure Path #1 - #13
Jörg
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Baugpuss wins the day - seems like all the great thinkers use the read-n-pile, sort later style.
The modules I tend to leave in whatever order they're sitting in because when I am looking for one in particular it is great to thumb through a couple of randomly selected issues. You forget just how amazing they are!
The rest are going up alphabetical, maybe someday later I'll at least separate the Chronicles from the Companions.
Is too much Paizo material a great thing to stress over?!?
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Hi Günther,As to supporting overviews, check the Pathfinder Chronicles; Appendix A page 244 and 245. Here you'll find the locations for
Modules:
DO, D1, D1.5, D2, D3, E1, J1, J2, J3, LB1, LB2, TC1, U1, U2, W1, W2, W3,
Guides:
to Korvosa
to Darkmoon Vale
to AbsalomAdventure Path #1 - #13
Jörg
Hi Jörg,
thanks for pointing.
I'd just like to see this overview be kept updated - and related modules be marked...
We'll see maybe a nice fan project, too. ;-)
Cheers,
Günther
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I'd just like to see this overview be kept updated - and related modules be marked...We'll see maybe a nice fan project, too. ;-)
Cheers,
Günther
I don't think that Paizo would allow fans to host a copy of their Golarion map even if the intentions are good. In which case, it'd be cool if Paizo did it for us...
I keep my APs on the shelf in order, with Player's guides before and map packs after. My modules are in chronological order. My Chronicles (and non-player's guide Companions) are also in chronological order.
I too use the Byers system for the stuff that is organized enough to be shelved. Anything too new to have been read yet stays in a drawer on my nightstand and the campaign setting and Beta rules are generally out on table or otherwise lying around in some easily accessible location.
The voices have learned a new word. It's a weird word, just two letters. They keep repeating it.
OC OC OC.
Mean anything to you? I hate it when I don't understand the voices.
I don't think that Paizo would allow fans to host a copy of their Golarion map even if the intentions are good. In which case, it'd be cool if Paizo did it for us...
I'd just like to see this overview be kept updated - and related modules be marked...We'll see maybe a nice fan project, too. ;-)
Cheers,
Günther
This was done nicely, but they asked it to be taken down (nicely).
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i just opened an area on my library where i first put bigger books (Campaign Setting one day Pathfinder RPG), followed by all about chronicles in order of release or interest, then i put Companion in the same order, and at las APs
for the time being i am getting very few modules, they go in the end as close to lettering and numbering
organizing them by color also help
when reading them i can leave them anywhere in my room and my tv place... :P wheni finish they return to the shelf until i need them
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I have a very simple and a very complicated way of organizing my Paizo stuff.
The simple way: The actual books are stacked in a pile against a wall with the spines facing out.
The complicated way: I take the PDF that is broken into Chapters and have multiple interlinking folders containing copies of related topics together. It almost requires a flow chart to see the relationships between files.
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I don't really see why this would be a problem. just organize it as it makes sense to you so you can find things easily. I have all my modules, aps and maps grouped seperately, with the modules done by level and APs by the number on their spine. Because I find it easy to find stuff that way...Unless I'm missing something...is there a secret message onthe spines that can only be read when everything is in a certain order?
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Unread stuff lands on a pile with the latest purchase at it's bottom. After reading the books, I'm sorting them by line (APs, Chronicles, Modules, Companions). Nothing spectacular... :-)
i have an inventory on ALL my books and videogames to know each bookand game status (read, unread, began, lent, sold, having it lent by someone else, bought by internet but not read, bought in internet and read)
that way i know what i have unread and know what follows...
i don't like to read twice a book, unless i need material from it... why? to damn much books unread on my shelves :S
still Fire & Ice Song Series waiting for their time
The complicated way: I take the PDF that is broken into Chapters and have multiple interlinking folders containing copies of related topics together. It almost requires a flow chart to see the relationships between files.
i do it easy :P
Folders
RPG
RPG/Pathfinder
RPG/Pathfinder/Chronicles
RPG/Pathfinder/Companion
RPG/Pathfinder/Modules
RPG/Pathfinder/Society Scenes
normal pathfinder incluthing beta fall in just RPG/Pathfinder/
the restare organiced inside by number profuct or line's order
PS: of course all the Game PDFs go under VICES/RPG
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I don't think that Paizo would allow fans to host a copy of their Golarion map even if the intentions are good. In which case, it'd be cool if Paizo did it for us...
It'd be cool for Paizo, too.
Just imagine: A graphical "selection help" which instantly shows you which other adventures are set on the same site as the one you are playing right now. ;-)Actually I didn't intend any plagiarism: A simpler map just showing the shapes of the countries and marks on them would be already a great help and could be quite easily done without using Paizo's original art.
Kr,
Günther
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I don't think that Paizo would allow fans to host a copy of their Golarion map even if the intentions are good. In which case, it'd be cool if Paizo did it for us...It'd be cool for Paizo, too.
Just imagine: A graphical "selection help" which instantly shows you which other adventures are set on the same site as the one you are playing right now. ;-)Actually I didn't intend any plagiarism: A simpler map just showing the shapes of the countries and marks on them would be already a great help and could be quite easily done without using Paizo's original art.
Kr,
Günther
I think that stuff like the country names is also their property, isn't it?
I use the "random stack" method, both here and at home. At work, I wait until I hit the breaking point and can no longer work at my desk (happens maybe once a month) before shelving them all roughly by product line. At home I just give all my gaming stuff to my roommates to read, after which THEY shelve it much better than I would.
I believe Jacobs works the same way, except that his breaking point for work is annual or bi-annual, and his home one hasn't hit since I've known him....
Director of Brand Strategy
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I use the "random stack" method, both here and at home. At work, I wait until I hit the breaking point and can no longer work at my desk (happens maybe once a month) before shelving them all roughly by product line. At home I just give all my gaming stuff to my roommates to read, after which THEY shelve it much better than I would.
I believe Jacobs works the same way, except that his breaking point for work is annual or bi-annual, and his home one hasn't hit since I've known him....
I think that living with someone else is the only reason I have a system. Though I do like organizing and alphabetizing things, even when I don't have to, so maybe I would organize them anyway. As it is, it's a random stack of no more than five on the coffee table, and then the ordered shelf. Unless I'm running a game or two or three, in which case random piles start to take over the apartment. That's when I catch hell and have to clean up.
Organizing my computer is different, though. I have a Pathfinder directory that contains pdfs organized by subject. The current breakdown is:
Bestiary & Monsters - Bestiary entries and ecologies, CMR
CotC - player's guide and adventures
Game Aids - Keeping the Keep, high altitude, plagues, Harrow, etc.
Geography & Locations - Gazeteers and setting books and map subfolder
Gods & Religion - SKR articles, Gods & Magic
NPC's & Villains - Karzoug, Relics of Kazavon, Red Mantis, etc.
Pathfinder's Journals - Eando's adventures all in one place
Peoples & Inhabitants - Shoanti, Varisians, Elves of Golarion
PFS - scenarios, character sheets, guide
RPG - Alpha and Beta stuff
RotR - player's guide and adventures
SD - companion and adventures
OCD? Me?
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I don't think that Paizo would allow fans to host a copy of their Golarion map even if the intentions are good. In which case, it'd be cool if Paizo did it for us...It'd be cool for Paizo, too.
Just imagine: A graphical "selection help" which instantly shows you which other adventures are set on the same site as the one you are playing right now. ;-)Actually I didn't intend any plagiarism: A simpler map just showing the shapes of the countries and marks on them would be already a great help and could be quite easily done without using Paizo's original art.
Kr,
Günther
check the lastmap in the Campaign Setting
at least the ones up to date are shown there
I actually enjoy the chaos of randomly throwing books onto my gaming shelves wherever there is a space. Sometimes two Pathfinder books are next to each other, sometimes the Chill rulebook is in between. I don't purposefully place the PF books far away from one another, because that would then be another kind of order, but just shove 'em up there without thinking about it. Then, the shelf is a big ol' motley collection of 20+ years of gaming materials.
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Chill huh? Thats a blasy from the past
*dusting off the thread*
So, close to 4 years later, I found the following to work for me:
The hardcovers are all in a stack on my bedside table.
Most softcovers are on the shelf, beginning with the ROTRL-Players Guide on the right, followed by the AP and Map, repeat for all following AP's.
(Yes, ordered right to left. When I take out a whole AP-stack, I can lay it on a desk without having to resort them!)
Then the Campaign Settings, Chronicles and Companions are sorted in a loose order where things related to another are together. More or less.
Lastly the Modules are sorted by level. I had sorted them by their short indicator (D0 and so on), but that is a thing from the past now.
As for PDF's, it's pretty similar:
Paizo/
-AP's/ (contains a subfolder for each AP)
-General info/ (contains Campaign Setting, Chronicles and Companions)
-Modules/
-RPG/
-Society/ (1 folder per Season)
-Tales/
My library is an organized jumble with newer additions organized by "where will they fit" rather than series order. Books I'm currently referencing are pulled for the stack by my desk. My map cards are currently stored in a photo box with a wonderful nautical illustration of a kraken on it and a wooden index card file box that was meant as a perpetual calendar and has 31 days and all the months as special tabbed cards. I've used these to organize all of the map packs and the Compleat Encounters maps going in order of publication, with that order getting jumbled when "what I need for the current game" gets bumped to the front. When I have time, books are organized by author and series, but that generally doesn't happen unless I'm having to reorganize to make room. The Pathfinder books have recently moved to a new shelf for this reason.
The exception is author copies which are moved to the bookcase that has my brag shelves.
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My older editions of D&D are much better organized than my 3.x/Pathfinder stuff...
Though my Pathfinder books have a much better organization than the 3.x stuff has.
With the Pathfinder stuff, I have the Beginner Box, the hardbounds, the APs, the map packs, and then the Chronicles/Campaign Setting books (and that's one whole shelf devoted entirely to Pathfinder right there)...
The 2nd self has the modules, the companions, and finally all of the various PFRPG compatible stuff that I own.
Everything (within each category) is more or less organized by release date.