What have you collected in your personal rpg library over the years? Have you managed to keep it succinct and nice or do you just haphazardly keep adding new stuff? What are the core pieces? Have you tried to self-publish something like collated tables? What are some more niche publications you use often?
>>97894324I'm the guy who overinvested in bad systems; once unknowingly, and once more because it was cheap as fuck and hackable.I have scads of 4eD&D, because it was my first rpg and I knew no better and Mongoose Runequest 1, which was broken on release, but fixed in errata and at the time available for a pittance, which are both bad for different reasons.Besides that I have the newer edition of Runequest, which near as I can tell is still inferor to old RQ2, the penultilate edition of og WHFB, with my lizardmen codex, also the Battle for Macragge set, and newCromunda's first outing and some supplementary materials from the first drop, I also got some edition Call of Ch'thulhu that I ran a few times.I also possess a Battletech collection, and the total warfare book just prior to the recent simplification of hit charts, and frost and stargrave, as well as rangers of shadowdeep and Oathmark; of all of them, I have only played Frostgrave substantially, and am still trying to drum up interest for the others.My latest obsession is with Quar.Mostly I just get the core set nowadays and bodge my own expansions when I play with my friends, which is who I mostly play with; some of them are middling experience gamers, but all but one are avid hobbyists, and I don't see that one guy so often, so if I'm wargaming I provide the terrain and minis, and if I'm roleplaying I end up being default DM. The system I modded the most was the new Runequest, basically just playin by ear and because anything with a BRP base is simple to modify, and because I wanted to do something besides the default dragon pass start.I invented a tropical island microsetting on the southern edge of the Eastern Isles.It was actually a foundered, eroded and largely buried dwarf ship (huge, made of stone) from the Godwars, the secrets of which were intended to allow the players to fend off the cannibalistic cult of Salligor; the dolphin spirit, who were attacking their village.
>>97894419None but one are avid hobbyists*
>>97894324>What have you collected in your personal rpg library over the years?Virtually nothing>Wiedźmin: Gra WyobraźniThe whole set (main book, pocket edition, all 5 expansions), stored inside the foam envelope it arrived in. Bought it, because there was a really, really good fucking deal for the whole set for just 120 PLN back in 2012, and I'm a long-time fan of that broken mess of a system>Oko Yrrhedesa, 2eWrapped in newspaper I put it on when taking it out in 2019 when taking it for a camping trip, stored inside of a box I've got from fancy coffee, along with printed out maps and a small boat model, since I exclusively use it for running pic related. The only reason why I own a copy was a decent deal for this one (15 PLN) back in 2015, when some asshat cleared out internet from all the scans, but didn't release 3e in the end.I don't own any other physical copies of any TTRPGs. Why would I? I'm in this hobby since 2004, and it was ALWAYS either a scan, or an old-ass xero copy, or the official pdf.Waste of space and no actual use in having physicals.
>>97894540Ofc 4chan doesn't post images anymore.Can they finally fix this site?The pic related is Yarra, River of Death module. You have to cross 300 sections of an uncharted river using a tiny barge
>>97894324>self-publish something like collated tablesQRD?
>>97894540>polish anon refuses to pay for things and justifies it to themselves for >muh efficiency lol
>>97894324I've collected games I've love and played, plus rare & niche games that are interesting enough to read for fun. Mainly I have:>Shadowrun 1e, 2e, 3e, 4e>D&D 0e, 1e, 2e, 3.5E, 5E>Talislanta 1e, 2e, 3e, 6e>Cyberpunk 2020>Mage the Ascension>Hunter the Reckoning>Changeling the Lost>settings like Planescape, Dark Sun, Ravenloft, Eberron>CthulhuTech>Rifts + After The Bomb + Ninjas & Superspies>niche ones like French CoC 25thA, Trail of Cthulhu, Bookhounds of London, Numenera, Amber, Oathbound, Transhuman Space, Delta Green
>>97894638But it is more efficientWhat do I gain from owning them? What's the benefit? That I now also have to own a page to put books on? What for?What's the gain? How it makes running games better?>b-but thiefYeah, as you pointed out, I'm Polish. And the entire hobby was build here on piracy. And it's still more efficient than buying a physical copy. I probably wouldn't bought that Eye of Yrrhedes if not the realisation that they've purged all online repositories of it..Guess who's scans are now floating the net and get reposted whenever there is another purge.
>>97894681It's pleasant to hold and read a physical book, that's why. And they smell nice too. I read PDFs on big screens too but it's just not the same at all. I enjoy the tactile sensation of holding books in my hands and flipping pages.
>>97894681Its okay anon, we understand your cultural shortcomings. You won't get it, its like trying to teach an earwig musical composition. You just can't into nice things.
>>97894593Suppose there's 10 different supplements, publications, whatever you have, and from each you really like only that one chapter, or only few tables. Or you have a folder on your pc with 50 different random tables and pdfs and webpage articles you saved over the years. You select what you like, throw it into epub editor or indesign or whatever you prefer, format it, have it printed and at the end you got your very own, beloved publication of tables, or plots, or definite list of tweaks to your favourite system etc. >pic unrelated
>>97894712>>97894720I live 500 meters away from the city library. Why should I build my own? What for? Other than "you will collect things and dust on them and pretend you are happy", that is being implied here.A rulebook exists to have rules in it. You read those, and that's it. You like them, then you use them. You don't like them, so you don't use them. But why storing them?What's the actual benefit? You know, one that justifies the whole "b-but it's nice to have things" beyond just pointless ownership of physical object for... no point or goal at all.
>>97894851>continues to bullshit in polish See, this is what marks you. You'll actually argue with a wall because you don't want to do a thing.
>>97895179I asked you a simple question - why should I collect rulebooks, or frankly, any books? Is it really too much to expect an answer that best you can do is dodge the question entirely? There are exactly three books in my life that I had any use of after a single reading:- "Polish Cities' Legends" (great for gaming, definitely more useful than any rulebook ever)- the cook book I use to cook (each dish is only made once in three years, so too rare to memorise)- the prayer book I use for Via Crucis (it's too rare of event to memorise all the answers to the priest perfectly)Why should I own more? What for?
