Most of us have probably collected something other than AD&D/D&D/TSR stuff. But what if you stopped the D&D collecting? What would you focus on?

I recently picked up a copy of The complete book of Wargames (which was certainly not complete) and got nostalgic. I once had several of the WWI & II SPI and Avalon Hill games they reviewed. I auctioned most off many years ago at gen con auction (where I originally bought most of them years before).

Now, I am leaning toward re-aquisition; but, I am gonna purge all my TSR AD&D non-first edition stuff to bankroll the effort. So I am gonna go after SPI games first...

The question is, what would you switch too?

I started collecting Avalon Hill and would again.. pretty much any of those old 70's 'bookcase' games including SPI.

Boardgames are something I dabble in too.  Even the common ones.  I'm not one who wants to collect all 182 different Monopoly editions but I do have a box of 1st print Monopoly pieces (no board, no box, just the box the little guys came in and a few cards) which I think is cool.

Comics.. yeah... got a garage full of those.

Miniatures.  It's tough to collect these in any normal fashion but I do collect the 'Gold box' series of Grenadier minis, some of the early 'crappy' minis from D&D era (Martian Metals, Rafm etc..)

I also will pick up exceptionally cool Reaper minis when I have the time.

I also have collected The Wizkids minis (Mage Knight, HeroClix etc..)

If I had to eliminate gaming and comics from things I collect I suppose I would start collecting old maps.  I love maps (who here doesn't?) but I often scour the Ebay listings for maps and get tempted....

I also collect Victoriana - mostly the mystical/disturbing stuff, such as English fairytales in the Goblin Market / Alice vein, 100+ year old choirbooks, Mother Goose (lots of gore in those!), Daguerreotype and photo collections, Victorian albums, personal effects and children's toys, medical and asylum treatises, old dolls, etc.  If I weren't collecting D&D, I'd probably throw thousands more dollars at that stuff than I already do.  But as it is, my collection is only mildly disturbing.


Fascinating stuff, though.

bbarsh wrote: The question is, what would you switch too?

I decided to leave D&D collecting because I needed the money (thank you very much Italian governement   ) and because having stuff worth a lot of money I don't read or use was becoming more and more silly in my eyes.  

After selling off most of my D&D collection (excluding the various D&D and AD&D editions of 'basic' rules - I couldn't bear myself selling them, I had literally tears in my eyes at the very thought   ), I started collecting (more or less) the games I liked or simply thought could be cool owning (an reading too!). For example I bought Paranoia (boxed edition) with modules, Price of Freedom (at a dirty cheap price, of course - that game manages to upset and entertain me at the same time   !), various CoC editions, Warhammer first edition and so on. Then I have a passion for miniatures (old ones). When I see one at a reasonable price, I buy it: my Paranoia miniatures are waiting for a good painter...

Oh, I have a complete collection of all RPGs in Italian, original and translated ones. Not everything printed for them, just the basic games. Believe me, they are A LOT and some are really hard to find. Magikon, for example, took me TEN YEARS to find and purchase! This is the only collection I seriously pursue at the moment.

I have a penchant for gaming magazines, but the ones I like only. I don't want to collect bad magazines, just the ones I read with interest: some names? The Space Gamer (non Metagaming one), Different Worlds (my sweet, the world wasn't made for a magazine like you   ), Imagine, White Dwarf (till issue 90...), The Adventurer, Tortured Souls - yes, I have a strong weak point    for British magazines...

Besides this, I don't actually collect anything. If I buy a book, VHS, DVD or a comic I like and I could wish to read again, I keep it. If not I sell/give/throw away.

salkaner wrote:<Magikon, for example, took me TEN YEARS to find and <purchase! This is the only collection I seriously pursue at the moment.



Do you know Magikon?!!  I searched it for years, but I didn't find it. Can you describe me this game (how it works, what the box contains, if there are adventures, etc.) or send me a copy of the rules?

Many thanks

I have already replied to my fellow Italian collector via private message.  Of course NO copy of the rules.