red_bus wrote:[pedants corner...]

should this not be:

"in what condition is your collection?"

Nope.  Call off the grammar police.  

Your question is subtly different from a semantic perspective, as it applies "condition" to the collection as a whole, not to its average, as the original question implied.  You could have gotten away with "in what condition is your collection's average?", I suppose.  "in which" would be generally preferred over "in what" when you're referring to a predetermined number of choices.

Since you brought it up, I had originally written the question as:

"what is [the condition of [{a sample of} the {modal} average of]] your collection?"

Quite obviously, it's far too verbose.  I chose to express the two braced sections non-overtly as they weren't strictly essential.  Then I did some more mental gymnastics and decided to use the possessive form instead of the of-genitive for the inner and outer bracketted phrases, and compacted the second genitive into the first, just for fun.

I knew my linguistics degree would come in handy someday...sheesh.  :roll:

deimos3428 wrote:
...decided to use the possessive form instead of the of-genitive for the inner and outer bracketted phrases, and compacted the second genitive into the first, just for fun.

I knew my linguistics degree would come in handy someday...sheesh.

and a very polite answer to my rather rude question.  ta!  :)

Mint/Sealed with a few maybe in NM condition.  Not really interested in obtaining opened copies to messaround with, if anything id just buy the pdf if i wanted to read it (takes up much less space  :wink: )

ExTSR wrote:6000+ boardgames...

Those portable holes come in mighty handy eh?  8O  Just how many different versions of Candy Land can one person have?  :wink:

Seriously though, of all the boardgames you have have which one is the rarest and which one do you cherish the most?

I'd say on average my collection is probably in 'fine' condition.  

I suppose I've been lucky in that most of the stuff I bought as a kid survived reasonably well despite spending 10+ years in a backpack and going almost everywhere with me.  They've got rounded corners and some cover wear but they're all tight and have all the pages (with no writing or staining).  

The only stuff that I really consider to be in poor condition are my D&D Basic, Expert, Companion, Master, Immortal, Star Frontiers boxed sets, and my Monsterous Compendium.  The boxed sets are are all taped up, and some of the covers have come unattached.  My box for the Master rules is completely missing as it was cut up for use in a science project.  Of course the character sheet in the basic rules is filled out, including a very embarrasing coat of arms.

The Monsterous Compendium binders were just pieces of junk that fell apart almost immediately upon leaving the store.

KingOfPain wrote:Yeah right....and maybe WotC will convert Dark Sun to 3rd edition.

It could happen and Mystara would be soon to follow I bet..
Why do I punish myself

ShaneG.

Malloy's book American Games is decent on the McLoughlins and has a few (not most) of the WWII and Monopoly.

Games of WWII seem to be underappreciated and not catalogued.

Items in my collection generally range from VG to FN.  NM and shrinks are nice to get but to me the most important things are that the pages are attached and there's no writing or highlighting inside.

ExTSR wrote:But I also collect non-TSR RPG materials and family boardgames. Both are of a similar range, Fair to Mint. However, with 6000+ boardgames and 3000+ RPG items, it's impossible to categorize them neatly by condition.

They're sorted by size, if you were wondering...

Wow.

And thanks, I was wondering.