Hey Gang!  

Name: Jeff Soileau (aka "Bazul")  
Age: 35

Began playing AD&D in 1979.  During the winter months our group still games just about every week.  (Another member of our group was also a member of the VERY first group I gamed with over 23 years ago!)  

Location: Atlanta  

Coolest item I own:  My First Print PHB with WHITE FLYLEAF (instead of the usual yellow) -- it's one of only two know to exist!  

Glad to be a part of a great forum and website -- Good job Scott!

Hey,  My name is Shane, I'm 26, and I have been DMing since 1986. I am a Forgotten Realms collector just trying to get those elusive Adventurer's Guild modules set in the Forgotten Realms to complete my collection.   Best collecting moment, me and a friend drove to this role playing store about two hours away and I looked on the corkboard at the store and noticed this little piece of paper, Kara-Tur for sale $5. So I called up the guy, managed to find his house and bought the boxed set for $5.   Coolest Item? Well its not one item but I have a complete shrinkwrapped collection of Dungeon magazines up to the latest issue.  Good luck with your collections.

Name: Ciro Age: 34 Location: Brescia, Italy  I started playing and collecting D&D books in 1986, when in Italian only the Basic set and three modules (B2, B3 and B4) had been released. This made an obligation buying D&D books in English (assuming we could find them, of course, not an esay task in the Eighties in Turin, my home city). I played regularly till 1994, when due to the Magic phenomenon and some players moving out of city or 'growing up', the group dissolved. Now I have a group again, started in 1999 after moving to Brescia for opening and managing my game store and hearing again the call of the game. Our group doesn't play only D&D but D6 Star Wars and, amazing, Mutant Chronicles RPG too.   Me and Danilo Moretti are the proud 'fathers' of Dungeons.it. We have catalogued in it every D&D book in Italian and (we suppose) in English: we were quite worried to see nobody preserving the 'lore' of the Italian products. We are working on the AD&D second edition products in Italian too...  My personal preferences for collecting are not for D&D products anymore, but for gaming magazines: Space Gamer, Dragon, Different Worlds, Imagine...   I am most proud for the collection of White Dwarf magazine from issue 1 to issue 90. After 90, well, it's just a catalogue for me...

Hi all,  Name: Tim McDuffie  Age: 38  Location: San Diego, CA  I am actually an oldtimer, I ran my first auction on rec.games.frp.marketplace May of 1996 where Mike Cox bought my Outdoor Geomorphs for $11.  I have not been active in the collecting hobby for the last year because of several months spent off the coast of Pakistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and an unfortunate EverCrack habit.  I first started playing in 1982 and started collecting in 1988.  I have over 1000 items in my collection not including Dragon Magazines (anyone want to take some duplicate Dragon Magazines off my hands?).  My coolest item is a first printing of the D&D Basic set autographed by Gary Gygax to Andre Norton

Hello all, Josh Berling (zzyllan on ebay), and I am new to the forum.  Just thought I would give a bit of info on myself.  You know, to feel like one of the gang...  Name: Above Age: 26 Playing: Since '92 (only 10 years, I know... what have I been DOING with my life.) Collecting: Only a few years, but I love it and I love my collection.  My collection is kinda weird, cuz I don't collect the rare stuff.  My collection is all about diversity; I collect main rulebooks for different games.  I have the rulebooks for over 150 different games, though, and it is quite neat.  Of course, I have the standards (Vampire, D&D White Box [no woodgrain... damn...], Palladium), but I also have some odd stuff (Quicksilver, The End, The Power, Periphery.)  Favorite TSR Item: I just picked this up, but my Boot Hill Miniatures Rules from 1977.  Oooo... it is so neat.  Oh, and my Meta Alpha I just got from Noble Knight.  I have been searching for a while for a nice copy.  Favorite non-TSR Item: Mint Elfquest Box Set.  Not terribly rare, but terribly neat.  Have fun,  Josh B

Name: Daniel Age: 34 Location: Wisconsin  I started collecting D&D (and AD&D, and CoC, and ...) in early 80's, though not with the approval of my mother (she never understood the rpg's and believed some of the anti-D&D hype). I got hooked on White Dwarf during that time and even had a subscription for a couple years. During the mid-80's, WD was an awesome magazine. Interesting articles, scenarios, cartoons and an interesting perspective of D&D and gaming from a country thousands of miles away.  In 1988, I got a third shift job in Madison.  I used to collect the cartoons from the Daily Cardinal, one of UW-Madison student newspapers.  I believe one of the contributing cartoonist was John Kovalic (Dork Tower).  On paydays, I would get done with work in the morning at 7am, hang around the student union until 8am, go cash my check at the credit union, have breakfast and wait until 10am for Pegasus Games to open.  I bought lots of games and modules.  Forgotten Realms was starting up around then.  What I didn't spend on games, I spent on comics.  Man, I was a junkie for a fix.  It didn't take me long to fill quite a bit of my collection.  During the 90's, my game collecting slacked off until a few years ago, I got hooked on eBay.  Using the Triviathlon poster for a checkoff list, I have about a third or more checked off (the Triviathlon poster had one on the most comprehesive lists of D&D/AD&D related items up to 1995/96).  Nowadays, I have most of my collections done: several collections of various gaming magazines, D&D, Mystara, Al-Qadim, Lankhmar and good amount of non-TSR items.  I realized I don't have the resources to have  complete collection, but I have a good chunk of what I like.    Items I am proud of: ST1 Up the Garden Path Gary Gygax autographed German 1st Edition AD&D Player's Handbook   (Das offizielle Spieler Handbuch von Gary Gygax) my first 1st Edition AD&D Player's Handbook   (The smell, the printing and artwork  MMMMmmm!   they don't print game books like this anymore    ) White Dwarf 1-99 and many others ...  Items I would like to get: Jade Hare with cover RPGA 2, 3, 4 R1, 2, 3, 4 AC5 Player Character Sheets The Compleat Necromancer (WOTC/Pandevelopment)

I'm an old-timer at the age of 33, and have been on rec.games.frp.marketplace since the summer of 1995.  Do you still have the ol' FAQ Brette?     I remember that old ST1 that went for "only" $51 on frp.marketplace.  It seemed like a lot of money at the time... I won that guy's R series of modules for about $40 a piece, and didn't pull the trigger on ST1 because I figured other copies would turn up...    who knew at the time?    Most coveted: still ST1  My personal favorite of the collection: the Grenadier "gold wizard" from those old Dragon mag ads.  Do other people have them?   Also have a tournament DM copy of R3 signed by Frank Mentzer.   I'd list B3 but it seems like everyone has one of those these days...    Cheers...

If you want to keep a catalog of your collection online I found this interesting web page that allows you to do just that.  D&D Collection

Name: David Smith Age: 30 Location: Philadelphia, PA  I've been lurking here for a while. I used to be something of a collector, but I've had to put that on the back burner, being married with what seems like a house full of children (even though it's only two ). I've actually been selling off pieces of my collection here and there.  In general, I don't collect items just because they're rare but because they're playable.  The most interesting items I own (IMO) are the modules produced by The Companions back in 1983 or so. I have all of them except "Gems for Death" (and "Sacrifices to the Orc Lord" if it actually exists).  I can remember buying the complete Arduin Grimoire (I-VIII) on rec.games.frp.marketplace in 1997 or so for $72 . . . then turning around and selling it on eBay for over $200 in 1999. I think a couple of guys got a little carried away with their bidding.