Just wondering?

[pendelfield]

Okay I was trying to organize all my RPG books the other day and got to noticing that I have aquired quite a few, some that i haven't even read.

And i was just wondering how many RPG books everyone has and what systems. Do you have the same problem I do where to put all of them, currently I have 5 shelves full and starting on a 6th.

[Spiral]

Our group meets at my house and we have acquired two 3’ x 7’ book shelves full of game books and accessories. There are quite a few books that are considered “group property” and all of that is in those book shelves plus I have no ideal of how many character folders that is no longer being played but just can’t be tossed for sentimental reasons.

We have everything from Hero (of course), Battletech, D20 system, Meta Barons (which was never played), Star Trek, Rifts plus many more.

[CrosshairCollie]

Lessee ... on the 'active' shelf:
About 50 books of various d20 flavors
About 20 HERO 5th books.

My 'inactive' shelves include pre-3rd Edition D&D books, 4th Edition HERO books, some WEG Star Wars books, and the Marvel Super Heroes books from both SAGA and Universal Table versions.

[Lord Mhoram]

I have over 500 for D&D/fantasy d20. They are upstairs in a bookshelf.

On the bookshelves on my desk I have:
Hero 5th: All of them but Everyman and Evil Unleashed (ordering those Fri) & this includes third party books (Omlevex, Fires of War).
Hero Pre 5th - All of them - Approx: 110 (this includes third pary books)
V&V - All of them: 26 or so.
Champs New Millenium: Al lthree
Blood of heroes - 2 - the Blood of heroes special edition and the BoH Adventure book.
Aberrant: All of them: 14
Brave new World: 6 of the 9.
Gurps Supers: All of them: 8
Heroes Unlimited: 9
Godsend Agenda d6: both of them.
Superlink: 14
M&M : 11 (all but Mastermind's Manual)
SAS: 10

And oneoff- Capes, The Foundation, Cosmic Enforcers, Supersystem.

Also a full run of Adventurer's club, and DH (printed and bound 5 mags per book) and printouts of all the PDFs of the "lost era" of fuzion.

I host the games, and am also the group "librarian" with my collection. :)

[DEFCON Clown]

I have FRED, The Ultimate Martial Artist, and VIPER.
Anyone want to make a charitable contribution to the "Get me HERO Books" fund?

[copeab]

Okay I was trying to organize all my RPG books the other day and got to noticing that I have aquired quite a few, some that i haven't even read.

And i was just wondering how many RPG books everyone has and what systems. Do you have the same problem I do where to put all of them, currently I have 5 shelves full and starting on a 6th.

I have about 325+ gaming books (excluding magazines like Dragon, Dungeon, Pyramid, Autoduel Quarterly, etc).

Roughly half of those are for GURPS. Maybe 24-30 are AD&D/D&D/d20 (including modules). About 20 are Traveller/MegaTraveller/Traveller:New Era. My d6 Star Wars has about 10-12 books (including modules). Other systems where I have at least four books include: Traveller 2300, Talislanta, Call of Cthulhu, Battletech/Mechwarrior and Pendragon.

I'll add that I've been collecting since 1983 and that a significant number of those books were aquired at well under cover price (comps for playtesting, bought used, marked down). Frex, my most recent purchase, The Everlasting: Book of the Fantastical, was bought for $2 unused, down from the $37 cover price.

[bigdamnhero]

I used to have a ton of stuff dating back to the `70s, but I cleaned out most of them several years back; I've never been much of a collector, so books I don't use are just taking up space as far as I'm concerned. Also we have a local for-charity game convention, and every year I donate some of the "back shelf" items to their fund-raser auction.

So basically I have one shelf worth of Hero stuff (not *quite* one of everything, but I'm working on it) and one "everything else" shelf, which includes:

D&D Player's Handbook v3.5 (the only WotC product I own)
Several Arcanis books (d20 fantasy setting from Paradigm Concepts)
Spycraft Core Rulesbook (not the new edition)
Savage Worlds (never played it, but thought it looked interesting)
GURPS Traveller
Assorted spaceships, alien worlds, etc books from various SF games (for conversion to Star Hero, natch)
The complete Dark Conspiracy line from GDW (lousy rules, but I loved the setting)
Assorted Call of Cthulu and other horror stuff I mined for source material
A few odds & ends, like Palladium's Weapon Compendiums, an old D&D v2 Castles book, and some miscellaneous Judges Guild stuff I still use now and then.
Oh, and my old copy of the Chainmail rules (3rd Ed) - my sole nostalgia book.

[Edit: And Morrow Project - can't forget Morrow Project!]

[Derek Hiemforth]

Oh man, I truly have no idea. Gotta be at least 400-500.

[casualplayer]

I bought Champions: New Millenium for a buck yesterday so now my collection is complete.

Considering I used to get comped books from many publishers I have heaps, and heaps that I have not read.

[Curufea]

I gave away my BBB.
10 5th ed books
30 3rd ed books/modules.
3 modules and 2 books for AD&D (player's and DM's)
5 third party addons (some of the "slayers" series for monsters).
10 books for Vampire 1st ed, plus 1st ed Mage and Mummy
10 for Cyberpunk 2020 and 5 magazines plus Cybergenerations.
MegaTraveller, Marc Miler's Traveller and some of the original Traveller. Some spaceship deckplans.
4 Hackmaster books
4 Forescene books
3 Hunter Planet books
5 Immortal books
1 Theatrix
1 Amber
20 Warhammer books and modules
20 Rolemaster books and modules
5 Spacemaster books and modules including Dark Space
3 MERP/Shadow world modules
Ringworld + expansion boxset
1 Tekumel: Empire of the Petal Throne
Skyrealms of Jorune boxset
1 Space 1889
6 Castle Falkenstein books
1 Victoriana
20 Cthulhu books and modules
The Extraordinaire Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1 Project A'Ko
1 Mechwarrior
3 Babylon 5 RPG books (not D20)
1 Serenity RPG
1 Farscape RPG (D20)
1 Supernatural book (Palladium)
3 HoL books


Plus some other stuff I can't remember.

[TheQuestionMan]

Every Hero System 5th Edition.

Approximately 30 Battletech Books.

Approximately 30 Shadowrun Books.

Approximately 20 Miscellanious d20 etc... Books.

Approximately 30 GURPS Books

All stored in 7 Magazine Card board Boxes.



Only 20 Books are Actively used.

QM

[Dr. Anomaly]

Total? I really have no idea. But if you go to this (http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38441) thread, you'll see a photo of one of my sets of gaming bookshelves in the first post. And a bit later in the thread, a few people make a game of trying to identify the various systems, expansions, and so on. Fun stuff. ;)

[John Desmarais]

Actually, I try not to think about it too much, as it forces me to realize how much money I've spent on them. I have just about everything ever published for every version of Hero System, more xD&D stuff than I care to remember, an astonishing number of GURPS books (and I've never actually played GURPS), a nice pile of Rolemaster/MERP/Spacemaster stuff, most of the SPACE 1889 books, all of first edition Cyberpunk, large portions of DC Heroes and DC Universe, a bunch of Marvel (FASERIP and SAGA), a few Silver Age Sentinals and M&M books, a sampling of World of Darkness books, and the list goes on and on and on.

I'm sure I could build a pile of 500+ books and then still go find more hidden in my basement.

[TheRavenIs]

Well I don't ahve all that many now. We used to keep our game things at a friends, he had a fire.....there goes a lot of my stuff.

5ed, lots of DC Heroes stuff, most of the AD&D 2nd edition books. But tons of character sheets for Champions.

[pendelfield]

But tons of character sheets for Champions.

Don't you mean tons of champions characters. You have characters that are older than I am.

[TheRavenIs]

Don't you mean tons of champions characters. You have characters that are older than I am.

Dude you know that isn't true, you were born before 1982.