The Stack; subtitle, you're all bastards • Collecting General

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The Stack; subtitle, you're all bastards
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sunrunner44
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 8:04 pm

About 5 years ago we moved and I looked through all my old RPG stuff, for the first time in around 10 years. Then I started filling in, slowly, some of the missing peices. The search for items, and printings, and the associated whatnot, led here.

Then I started to branch out, seeing what I had missed with V3, 3.5, and the effective 'birth' of OSR (since I ended my RPG love with early AD&D2 and Paranoia back when it was hella funny and some Cthulhu (those collectors may even be nuttier than OS&D guys) and Deadlands). Early Goodman Games was the catalyst - perfect early feel to start the dive.

Now I've got a mountain of GG, Necro, TLG, and all manner of assorted whatnot. I also fell hard, like a giddy schoolgirl, for Paizo and Pathfinder, and for Pacesetter, and Frog God.

Now I've got a stack of unread materials around 3 feet high. And it keeps growing. And I keep buying. And I keep reading.

Officially, I blame all of you.

Sunrunner44 - buried.

Kingofpain89
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 8:35 pm

Excellent! Another convert.* :twisted:

*Sounds better using Mr. Burns' voice from The Simpsons.

You don't like your job, you don't strike. You go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way. - Homer Simpson

FormCritic
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 8:51 pm

He is one of us now! :twisted:

"But I have watched the dragons come, fire-eyed, across the world."

Blackmoor
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:28 pm

We don't actually read this stuff do we? :lol:

Games can get you through times of no money but money can not get you through times of no games!!

sunrunner44
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:36 pm

We don't actually read this stuff do we?

I only read it to see if they have something cool they're looking to unload.

Sunrunner44 - snake in the tall grass.

Badmike
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:47 pm

You have been assimilated..... :twisted:

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stratochamp
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 10:18 pm

Blackmoor wrote:We don't actually read this stuff do we?

my heaven, not the singles no. now the doubles, maybe. if it wasn't in the shrink.

TheHistorian
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 12:31 am

FormCritic wrote:He is one of us now!

One of us. One of us. One of us.

Areas of interest/knowledge: Harn, WFRP, Ars Magica, anything BRP based such as CoC, Runequest, Pendragon and all their related games

misterspock
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 2:01 am

you're all bastards

Some, more than others :wink:

btw you should get into art collecting...even more bastards than you can imagine

aia
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 3:29 am

Blackmoor wrote:We don't actually read this stuff do we?

only in one case: if on the cover there's a babe (like the avalnche press books) AND, in that case, we read only the pics inside the book...

MetaSigma
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 7:22 am

stratochamp wrote:
my heaven, not the singles no. now the doubles, maybe. if it wasn't in the shrink.

Yeah, but that's a slippery slope. If you read the doubles, then you need duplicates of the duplicates in case the first duplicates are damaged or worn by reading them, then duplicates of those duplicates, etc. The madness!

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sunrunner44
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 7:25 am

btw you should get into art collecting...even more bastards than you can imagine

Before I was a soulless accountant, I was a free spirit art major for a few years. I have a few select peices, fantasy-based (two Elmore prints that hold a huge mental space to a then-10-year-old impressionable DragonLance fan), and a few other overpriced non-fantasy.

I will not menton the massive mental willpower required not to throw my hat in for Acaeum custom print...

Art collecting is a great way to make a small fortune. It's your hapiness ROI after starting with a large fortune.

Sunrunner44 - doesn't have too much art, simply lacks wall space.

GreyM
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 8:28 am

sunrunner44 wrote:
Now I've got a stack of unread materials around 3 feet high. And it keeps growing. And I keep buying. And I keep reading.

Officially, I blame all of you.

My wife agrees with you 100% ...our bedroom is looking more and more like the back room at the local gaming store

I still like to blame...errr...thank Mars for inspiring me to get into non-TSR too!

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