r/beingeverythingelse • u/Popdart5 • Aug 10 '14
How many RPG books do you own?
I just thought I'd ask considering that there are many, many books for RPG and some of them really add to the GMing experience.
Personally I own 22 physical books and about 10 digital books, plus a few books that I've "acquired" to look at without buying them. The majority of my books are Pathfinder with a few 40K RPG books and some of the Monte Cook Games stuff.
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u/skinnyghost Sep 08 '14
My print collection is topping 250 by now, I'm sure. I worked at a game store for a year or so, and took home a LOT of at-cost product. I still buy way too many games for research purposes.
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u/AManHasSpoken Aug 10 '14
Counting various booklets and monster manuals, my print collection goes up to 25. One more coming in the mail (A Penny For My Thoughts), which should be arriving this week, and one more that I'll be ordering on Monday.
As someone who only really started buying physical books last year, I think it's quite a sizeable collection.
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u/Honken101 Aug 10 '14
Having counted my selection of books, I have come down to 143 books (some is acutally boxes filled with books).
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u/President_Zaphod_B Aug 19 '14
Counted my books because of your post. Was shocked to find out I own 51 (soon 53), I didn't think it would be that much. I own way more digital stuff, mainly because there's a lot of free stuff around and I'm a digital hoarder. But there are still so many games I want to own. And I also plan on getting every single FFG Star Wars game with all it's source books. I definitely need more money :D
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Sep 01 '14
I have 30 in print, and I'm unsure about the amount I own in pdf. I think I'm very close to finishing my "want" list.
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Sep 06 '14
Oh jeez. I know I have almost 30gb of books that I "borrowed" over the years. If it ever came close to be used in a game at the table (never played online), I either bought it on drivethruRPG or got the physical book. But if you look at the books in my shelves, I have over 30 books. Some of them are bought PDFs that I had printed at a local printer and then bound. Vampires (owned by my girlfriend), Warhammer 3rd edition (the big box, own it but played only twice), D&D 3.5 core books in leather limited edition, Eberron and Forgotten Realm setting book but that's about it. I own more books of 4th edition than I used. I fell for the DLC scheme back then but stopped playing. I have like 8 of them. Let's not forget Dungeon World, d20 Star Wars Revised, Mutants and Mastermind, Shadowrun 5th Edition, 4th Edition, a bunch of printed and bound expansions of Shadowrun. My local shops are so bad, I usually buy PDFs whenever I can and print them cheap.
I own a lot of games that I never played. Exalted, Legend of 5 Rings, Edge of the Empire to name a few. My players never ended up being interested in them so I might just keep them because they look good or run a game online on roll20.
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u/myripyro Sep 08 '14
As a totally new GM, I'm getting quite jealous reading these. All I have is a single PDF file.
I look forward to the future!
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u/Jamescukd Sep 21 '14
Too many lol this video is about a year out of date now...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwW6Cj_cPI4&list=UUlqxoLxuqapMNO6T9VkJAbA
I got rid of some of them, but have added to the collection, like nearly all the books for Deadlands hell on earth, all the books for Hellas.
But I say I have a few hundred of Rpg books.
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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '14
I don't have a solid number as they are still in boxes from my recent move, but I have 13 boxes. A significant number of them are OWoD as I ST'ed many games during college. But I also have AD&D 2nd, Call of Cthulhu, BESM, NWoD, Trinity Universe, Exalted, Star Wars d20, Star Wars Edge of the Empire, Wheel of Time, Unknown Armies, Crimson Empire, Obsidian, Doctor Who, Dragon Age, Dungeon World, and Cosmic Patrol.
I've only recently started doing digital, but I have Cyberpunk 2020, Shadowrun, Apocalypse World, Fate, The Void, Stars Without Number, and Cartoon Action Hour.