(back in '77 )



*g*. Longer than I can remember to pinpoint for sure, anyhow...

Back in the day, I remember trying to track down old issues of The Dragon in order to get items from the indicies published in TD 40 and 76, so that I could get more good Greyhawkness

Christmas, 1982-83?

I had played for a few months before this, but I got bit because of a present...



My mom got me B4 (Lost City). That picture on the front cover captured my imagination. "What is happening here?", I thought. These guys in cool armor were packing sacks full of gold and gems and they got busted by some weird religious freak in a mask and his crazy followers. Fight time!



My family would buy me mods and books that I already had, so I would trade them with other people for things I didn't have. It was fun. I have 3 or 4 Fiend Folios even now.



Threw some stuff out once. Had some stuff stolen (twice). Had a few things thrown out on me. Stopped playing for a few years (forgive me, my bretheren, for I have sinned).



I still have almost all my dice. Even those fugly orange ones that came in my basic set.

killjoy32 wrote:i started collecting things for D&D back in late 1980, when we started playing. i bought steadily down the years until i got divorced in 2000, when i had to sell everything, escept my character sheets, dice and my players handbook (absolutely mullered but loved all the same) - just in case a game came along



Al

    Boy, you guys don't know how much I owe bad relationships for the success of my reselling business the last 12 years  :twisted:   I bought my first real large buy, a collection of Dragon Magazines #1-#100, from a guy who needed money after his wife cleaned him out in a divorce.  

  My collecting bug hit me the moment I signed on to AOL the first time back in 1992 (back then you had to pay PER MINUTE, ah yes the memories).  Up until then I bought one of each item TSR published for every one of it's game systems (D&D and Star Frontiers, Top Secret, Gangbusters, Gamma World, everything) plus their house magazines, but didn't collect anything else except the ocassional Judge's Guild or Mayfair item.  At that time I really didn't have a thought about the "big picture" in terms of rares, or the fact that the R-series items I had were worth anything, or that anyone else out there held onto this type of stuff after they used it much less collected it.

    I got online mostly to check out the TSR site there, but soon drifted to the (then free) AOL Buy/Sell/Trade RPG marketplace boards.  I had purchased Heroic Worlds and was fascinated by reading about all these game systems, modules and such that I had never seen or heard of (Dallas was not then and is not now a real Mecca for games collecting, tons of stuff never even made it down here for sale in the 70's and 80's) and had no expectation of ever finding.  Lo and behold, guys on this AOL marketplace were selling stuff like Judge's Guild, Companions, Thieves' Guild, Middle Earth, etc.  Suffice to say that was the beginning of the end for my disposable income the next 10 years or so.  :cry:  What was great was finally plugging into this huge geographically separated group with one thing in common, love of FRP and especially D&D, and finally acquiring a lot of until that time unseen and unknown items that I never knew existed.

  Soon migrated over the the FRP marketplace online and proceded to finish off my TSR collection and then moved on to getting all other interesting game systems like Warhammer, MERP, JG, and more obscure items.  Downhill from there when Ebay came into the picture...



Mike B.

grodog wrote:Back in the day, I remember trying to track down old issues of The Dragon in order to get items from the indicies published in TD 40 and 76, so that I could get more good Greyhawkness

Isn't the official term Greyhawk goodness?  For me would happened in the early 90s, after visiting one of the coolest RPG shops in germany which was in my home city: the "Trivial Book shop". It was in the back of a their comics store and you had to walk through a long corridor just to emerge at this great backroom full of good stuff. A bit later I discovered ebay.

Howdy,





I started collecting in 1995. Before that, I just picked stuff up to play. I blame the Dragon's Trove and Mike Cox. Lou Zocchi didn't help either.



I decided to start using miniatures in 1999. I had 10-15 in 1998, now I have over 5,677*!



*Representing 54% of all monster species and sub-species found in the Monster Manual, Monster Manual II, and Fiend Folio. There are 1012 different types that can be represented by miniatures and I have found miniatures for 542 of them.





Futures bright,



Paul

I played as a kid and then left it alone til I was thirty! Nostalgia kicked in HARD! For the last two years it has been a blast finding all this old good stuff and new things I never had a clue were out there.....plus the conversation here is second to none.....  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D

I re-started playing about 6-7 years ago and thought wouldn't it be cool to have the stuff I always wanted as a kid



Little did I know what this simple collecting habit would turn into.



It is fun though, most of the stuff is inexpensive and it is fun trying to track down stuff from used book stores, old game shops, Ebay etc.



Problem is there is not really  great deal of stuff to own, I find now I am almost complete!  Now what



Later



J

I got into it because I felt it was better than squandering all my money on whores and crack cocaine. Sort of.
I was a slow collector up until eBay started (ah, the old x.com era). I picked up the lion's share of my stuff long before the prices went sky-high, thank God. I remember buying almost the entire run of TSR boxed sets like Castles, Greyhawk Wars etc. plus a crapload of other boxed sets, modules and magazines from a bookseller in Illinois for $300. After that I had to have it all.
Then I didn't. I determined that anything that was going to collect dust for the next 25 years was out the door. I'm much happier now that I have limited my focus.
Off topic, does anyone remember CougarRetard's name? I'm pretty sure it was him I bought Misty Isles, Infernax and Necromican from. Grand total of $100 shipped.