30 years of books
March 3, 2010 by shent_lodge
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I stacked all my dungeons and dragons books that I could find on my game table. I am one of those one genre gamers. I like fantasy role-playing games, and until this year that meant only one system, Dungeons and Dragons. Over the years I tried Shadowrun, Boot Hill, Traveler, Gamma World, but I never played them more than a couple times. Dungeons and Dragons, on the other hand, always held my interest, probably because of the Hobbit and Conan books I had read as a kid. I like to have dragons, elves, wizards and from time to time, a token little person as part of the theme when I game, all that plus cool magic stuff. If a game didn’t have those elements I didn’t play it.
30 years of books:
1980 to 1999 these are the books I bought to support my hobby:
I bought nearly every module made for AD&D and focused a lot on the Forgotten Realms, I also have a huge collection of Dungeon magazines.
2000-2008 I was way into 3e of the game I bought all of these, somehow I am missing about 10 books, so the stack should be higher.
Here from 2000-2008, I deviated a bit, I stopped consuming extra game material, and created Alidor for my game world and bought maybe 4 modules and three dungeon magazines. I started playing in the RPGA in 2003 and got all my modules for free after that.
2008-2009 Wow, it is so bizarre how many books I bought in such a short time, and had I not just, “up and quit”, 4e altogether, I’d most likely be buying the Players Handbook 3 this month…
2009-2010 Two books and my final goodbye to my favorite franchise.
Pathfinder picks up were 3e left off, but they added adventure paths like the Council of Thieves, where you can run complete campaigns from 1st level straight out to retirement at oh, about 15th level+. I am vague on the the whole adventure path things still. I can say, that for the first time in ten years, I have actually thought about buying more than the first three modules written for a game system. Paizo must be doing something right.
The best part about all those 4e books, when I traded them in, I got 100 bucks worth of cool “in store” credit, I told the guy I could honestly only take 80 bucks for the stuff, If I took more I wouldn’t sleep well at night. With my credit, I grabbed these two games to try:
Good bye 4e! Goodbye Dungeons and Dragons! The first 29years were great, last year not so much…
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It’s sad to see 4e go like that but what is done is done.
Yeh, I never even jumped on the 4e train. Never felt like D&D to me. Had the same prob with 3.0/3.5 allready, even though (just like you) I bought everything they published and even played it constantly. But it was never the same experience I had from D&D Basic and AD&D 2nd.
What is the status of D&D th in the US, though? It’s absolutly unpopular in Germany, btw. No tanslations since the core rulebooks came on the market…
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@Cyric, Ouch on the whole no translations deal. Here 4e is popular at the small cons that I go to here in the Midwest. The game store I visit will be busy on the 26th for World Wide DnD game day. This last Winter War had its biggest year yet for RPGs in its 37 year history. It also had the widest variety of RPGs ever, primarily because 4e is not holding the interest of many gaming diehards the way earlier versions did. 3.5 games and Pathfinder games were the next most popular then Call of Cthulhu which is extremely popular at cons.
@greentiger you asked about my books, I got 80bucks (I was offered 100, but felt bad about taking that much) I still have my forgotten realms players guide, I spilled soda all over it at a con.
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