Patch wrote in Introduce Yourself, Fellow Collectors:Hello!AD&D played a brief but fond role in my life from ~1979-1983. Some of the clearest memories from my formative years are of sneaking around in Steading of the Hill Giant Chief and immediately losing my favorite character in Tomb of Horrors. I spent many hours happily browsing through the Monster Manual and Deities & Demigods. The endless charts and numbers in DMG and PH were quite fun. Alas, 1983 was a tough year to be a child gamer with parents who watched news and followed current events.....so I had to move on to Burroughs, Frank Herbert, Heinlen, and Piers Anthony. (I was pretty sure I could pass the gom jabbar the same summer all my AD&D stuff was taken away)I haven't played in 35 years and I'm not really a collector, but I'm now trying to obtain nice copies of the modules and books that gave me past joy. I'm also interested in the original art, but it's wickedly difficult to find.Patch
MadCatUSA wrote in Introduce Yourself, Fellow Collectors:Patch wrote in Introduce Yourself, Fellow Collectors:Hello!AD&D played a brief but fond role in my life from ~1979-1983. Some of the clearest memories from my formative years are of sneaking around in Steading of the Hill Giant Chief and immediately losing my favorite character in Tomb of Horrors. I spent many hours happily browsing through the Monster Manual and Deities & Demigods. The endless charts and numbers in DMG and PH were quite fun. Alas, 1983 was a tough year to be a child gamer with parents who watched news and followed current events.....so I had to move on to Burroughs, Frank Herbert, Heinlen, and Piers Anthony. (I was pretty sure I could pass the gom jabbar the same summer all my AD&D stuff was taken away)I haven't played in 35 years and I'm not really a collector, but I'm now trying to obtain nice copies of the modules and books that gave me past joy. I'm also interested in the original art, but it's wickedly difficult to find.PatchWelcome Patch! I'm not sure how your parents allowed Piers Anthony but would not allow D&D though... Piers Anthony is IMHO one of the WORST Satanistic writers out there. If you don't believe me, look at the Incarnations of Time series and how sympathetically he treats the character of Satan compared to the character of God and the Tarot series... The WHOLE Tarot series. Sorry to rant, but Piers Anthony is a bit of sore subject for me since so many people think he is such a great children's author.
Patch wrote in Introduce Yourself, Fellow Collectors: but dad refused to leave after spending "good money"......
Patch wrote in Introduce Yourself, Fellow Collectors: Honestly, I can kind of see it coming across as gambling with your soul...
aia wrote in Introduce Yourself, Fellow Collectors:@ Foul: pls mind that this thread went over the 100 pages!
Patch wrote in Introduce Yourself, Fellow Collectors:Anyway, my paperbacks mostly escaped scrutiny as long as I avoided some of the more intriguing Frazetta and Vallejo covers. D&D had the unfortunate combination of rolling dice, shouting matches, B.A.D.D., and large books with red, horned creatures on the covers. Honestly, I can kind of see it coming across as gambling with your soul.....and parenting styles in the early 80's didn't exactly incorporate listening to the "reason" of 5th graders.
Mister Yuk wrote in Introduce Yourself, Fellow Collectors:Welcome aboard Roakak. Sounds like a cool collection to pick up. That's something every Collector has to decide and it ain't easy regardless of what you collect (unless the Collector is a "I want everything!").
jkason wrote in Introduce Yourself, Fellow Collectors:Mister Yuk wrote in Introduce Yourself, Fellow Collectors:Welcome aboard Roakak. Sounds like a cool collection to pick up. That's something every Collector has to decide and it ain't easy regardless of what you collect (unless the Collector is a "I want everything!").Yep. I'm one of those.
Roakak wrote in Introduce Yourself, Fellow Collectors:Hi Everyone, I found this site a couple of weeks ago as I was contemplating buying my old DM's collection from him.
MadCatUSA wrote in Introduce Yourself, Fellow Collectors:Roakak wrote in Introduce Yourself, Fellow Collectors:Hi Everyone, I found this site a couple of weeks ago as I was contemplating buying my old DM's collection from him.Glad you found us! I remember your post on Facebook. Impressive collection and, yes, you got a STEAL on it. I told my wife about it and even SHE knew it was a steal of a bargain. Welcome to the fine, fun, crazy world of collecting!
Mister Yuk wrote in Introduce Yourself, Fellow Collectors:Welcome aboard Roakak. Sounds like a cool collection to pick up. That's something every Collector has to decide and it ain't easy regardless of what you collect (unless the Collector is a "I want everything!"). You're doing it the opposite way of most by picking up a huge amount and then paring it back. I did the same thing when I got back into stamp collecting - I bought 40 full collections and then sat down and tried to figure out what I liked the most about what I had. You might want to take a similar approach, spend as much time as you can with your collection and see over time what means more to you. It might be a lot or almost none of it. You have a great advantage (I think) in that you aren't going to be doing a lot of searching and wishing you had stuff. You'll be trimming away and then when you do search - you can have the attitude "Yeah, I used to have five of them, no big deal " I would think it would make you a "cooler" buyer if you do end up needing to add later on. Also, you'll gain experience as a seller of this type of stuff, which will also make you a better buyer by understanding both sides of it.Good luck, biggest thing of course is to have fun, I'm sure you will.
Roakak wrote in Introduce Yourself, Fellow Collectors:Thanks for the replies everyone, glad to be here!MadCatUSA wrote in Introduce Yourself, Fellow Collectors:Glad you found us! I remember your post on Facebook. Impressive collection and, yes, you got a STEAL on it. I told my wife about it and even SHE knew it was a steal of a bargain. Welcome to the fine, fun, crazy world of collecting!That wasn't me as I've not posted anything on Facebook related to the purchase. My DM, who sold it, might have posted, but not me!
MadCatUSA wrote in Introduce Yourself, Fellow Collectors:Glad you found us! I remember your post on Facebook. Impressive collection and, yes, you got a STEAL on it. I told my wife about it and even SHE knew it was a steal of a bargain. Welcome to the fine, fun, crazy world of collecting!