Blackmoor wrote:..... The wife is in Dallas teaching a new generation of mini enthusiats how to paint at ReaperCon.
I don't have either of these items. You are not a low level collector but a midto high level collector with a few artifacts Sometimes I get the blues about the whole collecting thing as well, I have always collected things since I was a wee lad. First it was pennies (hey I was 9 nine years old ), then war games (avalon hill, SPI etc), then comics and finally RPG's and miniatures.We (me and the wife) went through some hard times in about 1998 and I was forced to sell of the bulk of my wargames . I got real good cash at the time for them; probably around $15-20k. It was a godsend at the time but regret sunk in some time later. I will never have that collection again, it takes up way to much room and I really need a friend to play them with (my last wargame buddy moved 1400km away). I kept most of the Advanced Squad Leader stuff and a few copies of Panzer Blitz and such but the rest is gone. I still check on War in the Pacific or The Longest Day(possibly the longest game )on Ebay to see if they are still valuable and sought after(they are still quite valuable). Once a year or so my wargame buddy comes down from up North and we have an Advanced Squad Leader game still. My relationship with RPG's and particluar D&D is quite strong. I play in two groups regularily , my collecting hobby has turned into quite an investment with many items raising in value while my savings and stocks have plummeted . A few freinds I have that think I am nuts for this massive collection I have accumilated; others think its great and have started there own collections while others still just do not care. My collection has grown to over 10 bookshelves now with still about 25 magazine boxes left to put on display I may have to purge a few items, in fact all my duplicates will be sold off soon.Miniatures have been a passion for about 20 years now. Warhammer, Silent Death, Chronpia, Ral Partha, Grenadier etc have all invaded my basement and are getting out of control. I have decided to crop my mini collection of minis significantly over the next year or so. I am going to keep only licensed D&D stuff, painted stuff and my favorite armies from Games Workshop. literally thousands of minis will be exiting my house and finding more caring living quarters Yes I am bored as well. The kids are driving me nuts. The wife is in Dallas teaching a new generation of mini enthusiats how to paint at ReaperCon.
Blackmoor wrote:The wife is in Dallas teaching a new generation of mini enthusiats how to paint at ReaperCon.
. wrote:Now that sounds like fun. I haven't painted minis for 20 years. I'd love to do that.
ashmire13 wrote:this is one of the most interesting and personal threads I have read in a long time, thanks John.Regarding collections and pdfs, I had a miniscule collection and sold most of it (Ravenloft, F.Realms, W of Greyhawk boxes et al) last year, but I could not part with my original AD&D DMG (DM opening doors) PHB, MM & MM2, FF, DSG & WSG. Worth not much I know but priceless to me from my early80s playing days.The Imagines may go one day but not the GMPubs!Pdfs cover almost everything else which is fine for me
Nat the Beggar wrote:One of the grandkids recently asked me what the Brown Box in the glass case was for (My second Print Woodie).I told him it was a very old and rare game.GS: Can we play with it? (He is five)
Blackmoor wrote:Well come over to Calgary and she will give you a lesson
Nat the Beggar wrote:One was almost nothing but D20-DCC PDFs.And another was just ONE book from DCC 35, and I cannot even open that one (RAR file..... dont have anything that will open it).
. wrote: Have you thought about keeping scans of all your collection and just getting rid of it all. After all, it's just the image of the book and the information within that we really use. We can get that nostalgic tactile feel from a good set of hardback manuals and some nice cheap original modules. All the rest is just superfuous eye candy, and you can do it all with PDFs.
Whale Tagger wrote:Gnat, you can open a RAR file with WinRAR.
