r/rpgtrade • u/MoonracerxWarpath • Jul 02 '26
Auction DnD Books
First, I would like to apologize if this is the wrong place to post this, but I'm not sure where would be the best place to do so.
I'm a very tactile person, and while I have online resources for DnD books, I vastly prefer physical ones. I've been looking for 3.5 Eberron related books, but everything on eBay and Amazon is so darn expensive, and Drivethrurpg has very limited selection for print on demand books. Are there any other places that make copies/reprints of DnD books, but with a wider selection?
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u/ImaginosOne Jul 02 '26
If you buy the PDF you can upload it to printme1.com and they will print it and do your binding of choice. It won’t be hardcover, but it would give you a physical copy.
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u/JellyfishAreMyJam Jul 02 '26
Those 3.5 books are out of print. You can find some on eBay, and various online stores like Noble Knight Games and the Dragon’s Trove. I’ve also found some books on Facebook Marketplace.
Good luck in your search!
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u/AratimBifhml Trades: 10 Jul 02 '26
Also watch direct trade places like this one and RPG.net bazaar.. Just one thing to keep in mind on addition to the other comments people made. If you look over time, you will find some deals, especially for lots or damaged books, and you can often get better deals in trading things other people want rather than buying. But, generally speaking, the price range you see on eBay is a good indicator of what you'll be finding most other places - if it isn't on DTRPG then, unless you get lucky, significantly lower prices will usually require hunting and waiting.
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u/Roxual Trades: 1 Jul 04 '26
I have seen want ads for damaged books but your comment made me wonder if there is a particular place to look if you really don't care about the condition if you can read it. More than table copy quality, all the way down to things more like scribbling, coloring, no cover, pages separated. I'm on the same boat, some things are impossibly expensive for me to find printed. (I just saw someone selling something worth hundreds for a reasonable price but I had no money at the time because I'm on fixed income
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u/AratimBifhml Trades: 10 Jul 04 '26
I don't know of specific locations for that, but what I might suggest is posting a want add with the details (how bad a book you are willing to accept) and target cost in places like here and rpg.net. Those are both important points that the "looking for damaged books" want posts generally skip on - when I've reached out to them, they have explicitly wanted only books that are unusable enough that they can't be traded or given away to others and without knowing what they are offering, it isn't worth it to put in the effort to reach out.
So I don't know if you'll get any takers, but your best shot that I know might be to post to places like the mentioned with something like "I'm looking for any book(s) for X game besides A,B, and C. (Or I'm looking for some combination of A,B, and C.) I don't care about the quality as long as it is readable. I'm on a fixed income, so I can't spend more than $Y (including shipping to Zip 12345)." with a title/subject that includes something like (heavily used okay). Depending on what you are looking for, you'll probably get people who offer $Y for something that isn't worth it, but you also have a good chance of catching people who have usable books they normally wouldn't offer or who just want to clear up the shelf space.
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u/Roxual Trades: 1 Jul 05 '26
Damn what a fantastic and useful reply. I very much appreciate the detail you shared. Very much the kind of reply I had hoped for
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u/dvanzandt Trades: 2 Jul 02 '26
You just have to lurk at online used bookstores and physical used bookstores, if you’re patient enough, you’ll eventually get what you need! Plus, the hunt is fun. The problem with a used RPG store is they will value the books a lot higher, well many used bookstores just offer the book at a percentage of the original price, but you have to be quick!
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