I was a D&D completionist. And then I completed. Now my life is a suckling descent. An eternal horseback trot through snapping gray leaves, past windswept battle soot. This the ill belly of consumerism limbo. The bookworms here never stop growing! I see them - long as constrictors - sizing me from branches overhead.
SAVE YOURSELVES
By... releasing your shackles and forcing your entire RPG collections upon me. It's too late for this broken veteran of a life lived blindly, but if my sacrifice might spare your soul, I offer it willingly. You need but ask and I'll reveal my email address and we can proceed from there.
I'm really proud of you for deciding to do this. This is good. You're thinking straight for the first time in a long time.
~snarls, barring my teeth and extending my claws~ You will never have my hoard! Never! Mine! Mine! All Mine!!! My Dragon Magazine 35-359, my Dungeon Magazine 1-150, my The Rifter 1-48+, and all of my RPG books are mine! Leave them alone if you value your life!!!
Because it's my obsession to notice these things--
There is no such word as 'completionist'...
'Completist' is the correct form.
V/R
Because it's my obsession to notice these things--
There is no such word as 'completionist'...
'Completist' is the correct form.
V/R
It certainly does not appear in the webster dictionary or my spell check but I believe it has silently and successfully infiltrated many gamers' vocabularies. I'm not sure where it originates from. I know computer and console gamers use the term to refer to unlocking all of the content of a game.
when does a word become a word anyhow? If enough people use the incorrect word and attach their own definition to that Frankenstein-like incarnation of letters doesn't that then create a viable word?
Why grant webster and merriam the power to shackle us with their stinking rules?
Hey, R, let me lighten your burden of possessions so you can concentrate on finding true happiness.
I appreciate this generosity of spirit more than you can know, my friend. To turn one's head to peer into inky blackness and promise to the moaning expanse beyond that you'll return with a key to unlock the dark itself is indeed noble. However there is no keyhole rendering escape from our history, just as there are no time machines. My fate was sealed long ago. But you. You still have a chance, my beautiful boy. Walk hence without that immense fire hazard that would perfectly complement my collection with its bizarre catalog thoroughness including almost every product from 2nd edition D&D.
]I'll pay the postage if you send me your OD&D woodgrain. It is old, after all, and I doubt you've read it in a long time! Think how much better you'll feel, knowing how much I've helped you!:p
Actually I read it yesterday, is that sad? I think that may be sad of me. What are the chances you'd ask that today of all days? I MEAN I DIDN'T TOUCH THE THING IN TEN YEARS AND THEN ONE LITTLE MOMENT OF SENTIMENTAL WEAKNESS AND BANG! THERE YA ARE!
It's like I just saw the only time I'd ever be a part of an astronmoical improbability and I didn't even have a lottery ticket in my hand. <sniff>
See?! Do you see the misery?! Give me your valuable eBay collection and rise above this thorny realm in glory. Attain your true potential as a creature of unburdened light. You've still got my mailing address, right? I'll totally go halvsies on the shipping - because I care so much. (Hand on your shoulder, face scrunched in loving concern)
~snarls, barring my teeth and extending my claws~ You will never have my hoard! Never! Mine! Mine! All Mine!!! My Dragon Magazine 35-359, my Dungeon Magazine 1-150, my The Rifter 1-48+, and all of my RPG books are mine! Leave them alone if you value your life!!!I was a D&D completionist. And then I completed. Now my life is a suckling descent. An eternal horseback trot through snapping gray leaves, past windswept battle soot. This the ill belly of consumerism limbo. The bookworms here never stop growing! I see them - long as constrictors - sizing me from branches overhead.
SAVE YOURSELVES
By... releasing your shackles and forcing your entire RPG collections upon me. It's too late for this broken veteran of a life lived blindly, but if my sacrifice might spare your soul, I offer it willingly. You need but ask and I'll reveal my email address and we can proceed from there.
I'm really proud of you for deciding to do this. This is good. You're thinking straight for the first time in a long time.
I value your life, brother. And so should you. It's okay to be threatened by my offer and want to lash out. Really. But know where I'm coming from and you won't have all that misplaced passion. You'll know that the fire that burns within burns into you. I have all your Dragon magazines and them some, Sharoth. I sincerely don't need them. I'm just willing to take them so that you can take some peace in return. And you don't need a gold plated U-haul to carry happiness. All you need is room in your heart. Kick out the materialist clutter and there it is waiting for you. Room enough to hold every child's laugh and every lover's melody.
And this goes out to everyone. Any who realize they no longer wish to be a lifelong perch for their D&D collection albatross can friend me at my Facebook Page and we can go from there.
ARRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!! I do not have enough room for all my stuff! ~glares at The Jade~ Get away! NOW!!! It is mine!!! ALL MINE!!!
~grumbles~ It figures. I found the Star Wars Adventure Journal # 5, 6, & 14. But the others (1-4,7-13, & 15) cost a bundle.
~grumbles again~ DRAT!!! Being a completionist sucks at times. ~sighs and looks at e-bay longly~
It's called enabling. I'm really good at it. *grins*What... have... you... DONE!!!
*shakes fist*
~shakes my fist at you~
~sighs~ It is time to start cataloging my books, magazines, RPG books, Comics, and DVDs.
ARRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!! I do not have enough room for all my stuff! ~glares at The Jade~ Get away! NOW!!! It is mine!!! ALL MINE!!!
I'll be here when you need me.
::sympathetic look::
~grumbles~ It figures. I found the Star Wars Adventure Journal # 5, 6, & 14. But the others (1-4,7-13, & 15) cost a bundle.
Uhhh, what is this product you speak of?
~shakes my fist at you~Hee, my work here is done.
FWIW, I'm in the market for book 1 and 3 of the Dragonlance Adventure Path starting with Key of Destiny. I'm not sure I can afford on this paycheck though. *nosewrinkle* I really want to play in Krynn though! *whine*
3E/3.5?
~grumbles~ It figures. I found the Star Wars Adventure Journal # 5, 6, & 14. But the others (1-4,7-13, & 15) cost a bundle.Uhhh, what is this product you speak of?
The older Star Wars RPG by West End Games(?). Even though I plan on playing the d20 Star wars RPG, but that does not mean I can't mine the older products for ideas.
ARRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!! I do not have enough room for all my stuff! ~glares at The Jade~ Get away! NOW!!! It is mine!!! ALL MINE!!!I'll be here when you need me.
::sympathetic look::
~glares and pops my claws~ Sure you are. You just want my hoard. That is all that you want. ~snarls~ NOW GET AWAY FROM MY HOARD!!!
~glares and pops my claws~ Sure you are. You just want my hoard. That is all that you want. ~snarls~ NOW GET AWAY FROM MY HOARD!!!ARRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!! I do not have enough room for all my stuff! ~glares at The Jade~ Get away! NOW!!! It is mine!!! ALL MINE!!!I'll be here when you need me.
::sympathetic look::
I don't want your hoard, friend. I want you happy. If ever you need me, or my ability to cart away all that you, in your self mystification, believe you need, just call. I'll be around.
Until then, be at peace. And if you'd like to see what peace feels like you could always try a half-measure by sending me just a few things, just a few things you don't even really like, and see how it feels.
~shakes my fist at you~Hee, my work here is done.
FWIW, I'm in the market for book 1 and 3 of the Dragonlance Adventure Path starting with Key of Destiny. I'm not sure I can afford on this paycheck though. *nosewrinkle* I really want to play in Krynn though! *whine*
price of courage is the only one that tends to be a little more expensive... I picked up the other two for around 7 each. Check troll and toad for those.
price of courage is the only one that tends to be a little more expensive... I picked up the other two for around 7 each. Check troll and toad for those.
~shakes my fist at you~Hee, my work here is done.
FWIW, I'm in the market for book 1 and 3 of the Dragonlance Adventure Path starting with Key of Destiny. I'm not sure I can afford on this paycheck though. *nosewrinkle* I really want to play in Krynn though! *whine*
I was going to suggest the same thing.
There's also this awesomeness:
I was going to suggest the same thing.
There's also this awesomeness:
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Must. Have. Shinies.
Must. Have. Shinies.
It's a heck of a deal. The only downside is you'll pay nearly that much for a copy of Towers of High Sorcery...
Oh, and I'd point out that T&T lists the condition as "Varying Conditions".
In the set I bought a couple months ago, the conditions varied from "nearly perfect" to "perfect".
I won't swear that they're all this way, but all of mine were brand-spankin' new.
The books you'll be missing from the entire 3E/3.5 run of Dragonlance:
Age of Mortals I - Key of Destiny
Age of Mortals III - Price of Courage
Bestiary of Krynn (the package above contains Bestiary of Krynn Revised, not the original, if this matters to you)
Knightly Orders of Ansalon
Towers of High Sorcery
Hi, I'm Patrick and I'm a completionist.
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HI PATRICK!
I too suffer from this evil affliction. I took a long break, like you, but mine was 1987-1997 or thereabouts. When I returned to the game 2E was right in the middle of publishing tons of stuff, and already HAD published tons of stuff. Also, World of Darkness was pumping out book after book after book.
I was in the military at the time, and freshly divorced. I ended up spending quite a bit of coin at the local FLGS. Then I discovered eBay...
I have choked back on these impulses, mainly because I really don't have the money to spend on them, but I do have a pretty fearsome collection. I think the only Planescape item I don't own is the conceptual sketch book (which one recently sold on eBay for like $2,000). I even have all the miniatures in the Ral Partha 11-6XX Planescape line (and the four mini box sets).
If I hit the lottery tomorrow, I am sure I would build a library and happily collect tons of D&D memorabilia. As it is, I enjoy the eight shelves of 1-3E D&D, Pathfinder, WoD 1-2E, I do have. As I once said to my wife: I could think of worse hobbies that are much more expensive and destructive, like barhopping.
As to your eBay question, people get what they can get. Most of these folks aren't pros, or semi-pro. I have often scratched my head on some prices, but I usually just laugh and move on. There's always another auction and you have to be patient and wait for the right item at the right price to show up.
Me I'm waiting for someone to put up some of the old Dragontooth giant miniatures. Been haunting sites for those for years :P
Crackpots. It's all because of you!
Crackpots. It's all because of you!
What exactly is all because of me? World hunger? Global warming? Lack of old-school RPG items for sale?
Anyways, I kicked the sauce. I mailed all my stuff to Jade. Shriek at him now, I'm off to explore philately.
Shriek at him now, I'm off to explore philately.
Great, so now we're going to have to pay $0.47 instead of $0.44 to mail a letter, not to mention the cost of shipping Paizo product is going to go up...
THANKS, BUDDY!
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That Dragonlance trilogy was a blast I played in it. Only problem was at the time the gaps between printings were waaaay too long :-)
So you can recommend it?
Some of the reviews I've read have said it was a bit railroad-y. I'm very much looking forward to tricking my wife into playing Dragonlance. She's had a hate-on for Krynn for a Long Time.
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I would absolutely recommend it I had a blast playing it. It contains plenty of iconic Dragonlance NPC's and artifacts so if you like Dragonlance in theory you should like this trilogy. I recommend at least one PC should be a Knight of Solamnia (of any type).
I think all modules are inherently railroady.
When we play modules we simply accept the fact that we will be railroaded but that the railroading has a point and that is to bring us to the proper destination at the proper time :-)
I was playing Dark Heresy over the weekend and we discovered a map of the system that showed planets that aliens were trying to infiltrate. The GM went through amazing effort to have us lose the map and all copies we made of it. It can be annoying to have this kind of stuff happen but that's all part of the fun!
"Nobody minds the railroad if the view from the carriages is pretty and the destination is Awesome Town."
I LOVE Dragonlance, though I hate the fiction and the universe-jacking that happened when they freelanced it heavily. But what's done is done. The fact that the characters are carrying Huma's Lance by the end of the first module makes me go "Whuh huh?" but if it's handled well then it's all good.
Well, I foolishly went ahead and tried to get most of Rackham's Confrontation metal miniatures... to date I still comb ebay daily trying to find the few I'm missing (and that I'm interested in) and I do regret having bought all this minis, specially because 70% of these minis are sitting either in San Francisco or Redmond WA waitinf for me to pick them up.
Yes I do regret this OCB and yes it got me on some economic problem. Thou I'm sure I will enjoy every little mini when I get them
Stupid guilty pleasure!