Hyper-Man

I am jealous of your collections.
 
Your bookshelves, on the other hand, need better brackets.

Very, very nice, HM! And it looks like the books are generally in great condition, too.
 
The explanation of the package routing problems makes sense. Still, you'd think there'd be a human in there somewhere who could stop stupid stuff like that from happening. All that misrouting wasted USPS's money, so you'd think they'd spend a little to avoid those sorts of situations...just someone to spot obvious weirdness, such as a package being routed back and forth across the country.
 
Still, I'm glad you finally got it! Now all you have to do is read them all and write reviews. =P

So with my latest booty, here is my current physical collection put in order of HERO#/DOJHERO# where possible:
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
And here's my immediate wishlist for now that will need to wait on finances and more shelf space for the time being:
 
4e
Champions Deluxe Hardback ?

5e
Lucha Libre Hero (Book+PDF) $15.00
Alien Wars (Book+PDF) $13.50
Terran Empire Book $12.50
Worlds Of Empire (Book+PDF) $9.50

6e
Kazei 5 (Book+PDF) $39.00
The Widening Gyre (Book+PDF) $24.95
Narosia: Sea of Tears Fantasy RPG (Book + PDF) $34.99
Terracide (Book+ PDF) $24.95
The Fires of Heaven (Book+PDF) $24.95
 
HM
 

What an ordeal!
 
Fingers crossed the loot makes it to you in the next day or two, though.

Ithaca Auto & Burglar
 
 

 
It's basically just a factory-made sawed off shotgun, but you've got to love the name. Take out the ampersand and  you can have a ready-made villain, the Auto Burglar, a robot with a sawed off shotgun.

How did you come up with your 'handle' (forum name)?Let's pretend it's my name mashed to fit into eight characters.
What was the first tabletop RPG you played?Who can remember? Probably AD&D for a few sessions, but I really got into RPGs after playing Champions (4e).
What was the first tabletop RPG you GMed?I think it was Champions, but it could have been Fantasy Hero. Something in the Hero System (4e).
What are you currently playing/GMing?Playing: D&D (4e) and New World of Darkness
GM'ing: D&D (4e)
I have no motivation to move to the next edition of D&D, so when my current D&D campaign is over, I'm planning to run Champions again (6e this time). Watching the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Arrow/Flash has made me eager to return to my roots.  
 
Doug

Hi
 
How did I come up with my 'handle.'   My mom gave it to me
What was the first RPG you played?  Mentzer D.
What was the first RPG you GM'd.  See answer 2.
What are you currently playing?  Nothing, but my son and I are having fun making up guys and then writing them up in 5E.

Hey Rose, I'm still alive and kicking. eepjr has inspired me lately to revisit the HERO material by persistently grinding through Fantasy HERO material, and I've been making some mechanical improvements to the site here and there, so I still have a hand in the HERO jar but I'm no where as active as I once was.
 
Long story short, my wife and I had another baby a couple of years ago, and that, plus work, other kid, etc, I just don't have the free time I used to have. I started using Fate and Fate Accelerated for my (seldom) game sessions mostly due to the greatly lessened time it takes to work up material.
 
I still love the HERO System and it is still my favorite game system of all time. Just, y'know, life happens.
 
 
 
How did you come up with your 'handle' (forum name)? Long story short, it was my handle for Mechwarrior a very long time ago, that I then used to replace a different handle I had used for years that I discovered was very similar to one used by a hacker with a bad reputation. It just sort of became my net persona, unintentionally. 
What was the first tabletop RPG you played? Actual table top was D&D Red Box; I was 10. But my real intro to the hobby was Joe Dever's Lone Wolf; if that hadn't of hooked me I would not have been interested when the opportunity to play D&D was offered.
What was the first tabletop RPG you GMed? Also D&D Red Box.
What are you currently playing/GMing? My Pathfinder Fate Accelerated hack, though on an extremely spread out schedule. We play every now and then when the stars align, usually in bursts of a few sessions. Over the last year I've also played in some one offs of Edge of Empire, Pathfinder, and Marvel Heroic Roleplaying, and we play a lot of board and card games. Netrunner, Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, Warhammer Quest, Descent, Sentinels of the Multiverse, and Smashup most recently. I'm currently looking forward to the new Netrunner Mainframe board game, and the Sentinels of the Multiverse Oblivaeon kickstarter.

I actually forgot to include the additional section of shelves holding the 3-ring binders that contain hard copies of Digital Hero, Supermage Bestiary, New Bedlam Asylum, Widows & Orphans, and various other electronic publications.

Not yet but the latest update had the package back in Jacksonville on 4/24 so there's hope that it may arrive Tuesday or Wednesday.
 
HM

I'm a little late, but here's mine.  Rulebooks, then Adventurer's Club, then everything else alphabetized.
 

I'm currently waiting on several more books to be delivered by the USPS but here is the collection as it currently stands.
 

 

 
 
EXTRAS part 1:

 
 
EXTRAS part 2:

 

HM
 

How did you come up with your 'handle' (forum name)?
It's actually my name.
 
What was the first tabletop RPG you played?
Original Blue Book Basic Dungeons and Dragons
 
What was the first tabletop RPG you GMed?
The same as I stated above
 
What are you currently playing/GMing?
Shadow of Mordor - Middle Earth

How did you come up with your 'handle' (forum name)?
 
It was my City of Heroes global handle - I had 27 Brutes on Virtue.  It's a play on the title of a techno song popular when I was in Germany (Das Boot - a techno remix of a show theme)
 
What was the first tabletop RPG you played?
 
AD&D 2nd edition.  Our first adventure was the Mines of Bloodstone because we all lied and said we'd played before and used characters from 'previous games'.  All 20th level Dual Classed with straight 25 stats. And mine was half elf, half ogre. Ah, 11 year olds.
 
What was the first tabletop RPG you GMed?
 
AD&D 2nd edition.  My campaign setting had flying islands, tinker gnomes whose inventions worked who had a knock off of the Enterprise-D as their flagship and used RoboCop gnomes as their security. Also sentient tarrasques and a race of magic users ripped directly off from the Haydonites from the Robotech:Sentinels series.  Ah, 13 year olds. 
 
What are you currently playing/GMing?
 
After a short stint (20 years) of DMing D&D (2nd through 4th) (with far less sentient tarrasques and RoboGnomes as time rolled on.  Kept the flying islands, though.) I've been taking a break and running a Champions Complete game. 
 
For old times sake it did feature a sentient tarrasque one adventure (A reskinned Grond).  With Champions you can get away with 40 being the new 13 from time to time.
 

I've been on the HERO boards since Feb. 2003. I mostly hang out in the back row nowadays, but have been known to post every once in a while (sometimes it's even something that's actually constructive).
 
How did you come up with your 'handle' (forum name)? Aylwin Grimboud was a character in a long-running Fantasy HERO game. He started out as the son of a middle-class armorer, but became a knight/mage who eventually became the consort of the Queen. And the 13 is my lucky number.
 
What was the first tabletop RPG you played?  I played in a pick-up game of AD&D 2E at the public library. Borrowed a 1st level dwarf from the GM, and was killed by an air elemental in the first encounter.
 
What was the first tabletop RPG you GMed?  Champions.
 
What are you currently playing/GMing?  I am currently between games. My HERO GM moved out of state, and with HERO Central gone those games are kaput.
 
When did you start to play Hero?  I picked up the 2nd Edition Champions Box set in the Spring 1982. HERO has been my game of choice pretty much ever since.

I've been around (mostly lurking) since the start of the boards but I figured I would chime in anyway.
 
How did you come up with your 'handle' (forum name)? 
I earned my handle when I first went online.   
 
What was the first tabletop RPG you Played?  
D&D in the early 80's. 
 
What was the first tabletop RPG you GMed?  
D&D in the early 80's. 
 
What are you currently Playing/GMing?  
GURPS Fantasy alternating with GURPS Firefly. 
 
When did you start to play Hero?  
In the late 80's and early 90's. Champions of Course.
 
 
Cheers 
 
 
QM

Hello from the lurky shadows. :-)

 

How did you come up with your 'handle' (forum name)?

I first started using the handle when I joined the EN World forums some years back. I was a bartender at the time and had the occasional drink while working (to stop from getting bored). For my handle I wanted something to play on "DnD" and decided DrunkonDuty came close enough.

 

What was the first tabletop RPG you Played?  

A mash up of AD&D 1e and Basic. I didn't realise they were different games.

 

What was the first tabletop RPG you GMed?  

 A mash up of AD&D 1e and Basic.

 

What are you currently Playing/GMing?  

I'm running a 1 on 1 Pathfinder game for my partner.

But as I have just moved to a new city (Canberra, if anyone local happens to read this) I am on the look out for a new regular game.

 

When did you start to play Hero?  

Introduced to it back in about 89/90. It was 4th Edition IIRC. I remember I was quite dismissive of all the stats and having to build my own powers  and said the game was far too complicated to be enjoyable. I changed my mind.

How Did I Come Up With My Handle: Did A Personality Test And The Results Told Me I Was Like Johnny Appleseed and I Chose 98 because that is when my favorite movie "Saving Private Ryan" came out.
 
What Was The First RPG I Played: D+D Edition 3.5
 
What Was The First RPG I GMed: HERO Champions
 
What Am I Currently Playing: HERO Champions, Pathfinder, and Call Of Cthulhu
 
When I Started To Play HERO: I First Played HERO when I Was 11 years old.
 
 
 
 
As Words Die A New Challenger Approaches.

Hello!
How did you come up with your 'handle' (forum name)? The echo part was the name of a Cyber Punk character I played. Tng comes form my initials. Clever and cool I'm sure…
 
What was the first tabletop RPG you played? Dungeons and Dragons basic set
What was the first tabletop RPG you GMed? Clay-O-Rama. At a convention no less, Ahh those were the days What are you currently playing/GMing? Nothing

Hey chummers! I have been lurking a bit but never really posted much till now.
 
How did you come up with your 'handle' (forum name)?
Eh..well it's not very creative but I adopted the name from a Decker in the Shadowrun Universe.
 
What was the first tabletop RPG you played?
AD&D, introduced to me my freshman year of H.S. (1996ish)
 
What was the first tabletop RPG you GMed?
Rifts, yeah I know interesting setting horrible rules.
 
 
What are you currently playing/GMing?
Right now I am trying to run a weekly/bi weekly game of Shadowrun 5th edition  via Roll20,though we some times play champions. I'm getting ready to test out a Hero system Shadowrun rule set in hopes to make things a little more streamed lined and only have to really know one system (as I am the GM 99.8% of the time).

Returning after a long time.
 
How did you come up with your 'handle' (forum name)
 During college I had a job which included coming in on weekends and running Virex and pulling all the porn off of the various work stations. There was a group who came in for LAN parties gaming  Lucasarts X-Wing combat flight sim. We all had call signs based on our squadron,: Red Leader, Red 2, etc. Since I was in every weekend I got good and after I got lucky and took out a particularly tough Imperial Ace one of the guys gave me the nickname. Also I'm a redhead.
 
What was the first tabletop RPG you played?
D&D 2nd edition.
 
What was the first tabletop RPG you GMed?
 The same guy who introduced me to D&D had a homebrewed superhero game based on D&D mechanics. I took it over to give him a break.
 
What are you currently playing/GMing?
Playing: Trail of Cthulhu
Running: Prepping for a 6th ed, Champions campaign based around a super team working for UNTIL.

How did you come up with your 'handle' (forum name)? Easy -- it's my given name.
What was the first tabletop RPG you played? I had looked at several RPGs owned by one of my cousins in the middle of the Eighties -- Runequest, Stormbringer, Elfquest -- but the first I actually played was Äventyrsspel's Drakar och demoner, the third edition (I think). I bought it some time around New Year's '87-'88. Drakar och demoner at that time was basically the Chaosium Basic Roleplaying system translated into Swedish. Much fun was had with it. I bought almost everything (slight hyperbole) that Target Games/Äventyrsspel published, like the Expert and Gigant and Magi expansion sets, the Ereb Altor campaign setting, adventure modules like Mörkrets hjärta  -- I still have most of it left, I think, in storage.
What was the first tabletop RPG you GMed? DoD. I was the designated GM. I had no handle on things, really -- one character, a Dwarf, got so strong (mis-)using Hero Points rules that he could easily wrestle dragons with one hand. I had a giant step on him between adventures and made the player roll up a new character. He was not pleased.
What are you currently playing/GMing? Nothing. I haven't played since I moved north from Umeå five years ago, but I hope to some day have a use for my campaign settings. Using Hero.

How did you come up with your 'handle' (forum name)? 
 
My name is David. My college era gaming group called me "Dave Man" and then "D-Man" when they got lazy. I do not know why. It was stupid. Embracing this pointless nickname, my handle back on the Cybergames boards and then the Hero boards and then these here resurrected Hero boards was D-Man.
 
However, back during the flame-wars of old (today is weak tea compared to 2003-2005) I led a coalition of like-minded flame-war disrupting and derailing dastards under the moniker of Von D-Man, the monocole doffing, hessian boot wearing, kaisereich uniform wearing, bad German accent wielding Supreme Leader of PAID in Full. Whenever the flame warriors gave up and surrendered a thread (and boo-hoo'd at me in whiny private messages) we informed them they had been "Paid in Full."
 
Yet, someone took to abbreviating Von D-Man as VD-Man and, well, no thank you. Since ScubaHERO had taken to referring to me as "Von-D," and occasionally "Vondy," I asked Simon to change my handle to Vondy. It has been thus for years on end now.
 
What was the first tabletop RPG you played? 
 
The blue-covered1977 Dungeons and Dragon boxed set. It was 1979. I was 7. 
 
I played a ton of early games, however, and I loved a lot of them.
 
What was the first tabletop RPG you GMed? 
 
Same.
 
What are you currently playing/GMing? 
 
I have been running FFG Star Wars, but last week converted the characters to Hero 5th. 
 
I have a street-level TAS style Hero game I want to run in the near future. 
 
When did you start to play Hero?
 
I first played Hero in 1983, but didn't settle on it as my system of choice until 1991. 

Oh hey guys.

 

How did you come up with your 'handle' (forum name)? Its my handle forma hockey forum where I have been active for, uhhh...a long time. A "Double minor" is commonly astick infraction that causes loss of blood and/or chicklets. 138 is from the Misfits "We Are 138".
What was the first tabletop RPG you played? Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 1st Edition.
What was the first tabletop RPG you GMed? Same.
What are you currently playing/GMing? Pathfinder (running two games, playign in two games) and Hero System 5th Edition (starting that sucker back up)
 

 

...wow. Yeah. doubleminor138 is not my handle here. It's my handle everywhere else, basically. Thank Grond Its Friday.

 

Shigeru was the name of my NPC samurai in my long-running jidai-geki Hero Game. He died.

You could upload your collection onto a thumb drive, place the thumb drive on a book shelf, and take a picture of the book shelf.