My only 'active collections (meaning striving to own everything in that category) are: Italian language RPGs (being a retailer has advantages   ) and books about games or gaming (the very last being the Elfish Gene - I suggest you read it too). Then I collect game magazines, but in a selective way... for example, I like magazines rich in news, reviews, comments, opinion columns and such but I found horribly boring the ones with just adventures, new rules and so on. Wait: an exception is made for Italian language game magazines (still some issues of some periodicals missing sadly   ) that I actively hunt for completeness' sake.

Active:
-D&D/TSR(includes books, artwork, etc...)
-Movies(Horror, Sci-Fi and just about anything good that comes out on DVD) own around 750 now, also movie posters, promo items, and props.
-Records(LPs) old rock mostly(Pink Floyd, Doors, Cheech & Chong, and anything else strange like Arnold Palmer golf record) own around 350.
-Books (mainly Sci-Fi/Fantasy)


Non-Active:
-Actions figures(Simpsons, Robotech, Dune, Dawn of The Dead, etc..) own around 100.
-Coins (just as we find them in change).
-Comics(quit collecting about 7 years ago) have 10 or 11 long boxes. Have the whole run of Conan the Barbarian.
-Gaming Consoles w/ games

bombadil wrote:All of them are active, though some are "dormant" at times:

Hard to follow up after some of Bombadil's collections, but here are mine:

Active:
RPGs
RPG-related paperbacks
RPG dice
Lead minis from Dragontooth, Heritage, Superior, etc.
Lovecraft paperbacks
The Terran Trade Authority and similar SF books
Endless Quest books

Dormant
Comics
Video Games
Freeware for Windows 98/XP
PDFs of free RPGs
PDFs of pay RPGs
[Edit: forgot about CCGs]

Childhood
Comics
Stamps

Just started my ex-wife collection.  

obiter wrote:zeuhl

Magma?!?

I have a growing collection of non-specific aches and pains - might have something to do with approaching 40 I guess.

As for proper collections, apart from RPG's (FR, OD&D, considering making the random accumulation of Traveller stuff into a Bona Fide collection) nothing really. We don't have space for storing stuff, let alone displaying it, so collections would just be shoved into storage somewhere, which seems (to me anyway), kind of pointless and a little sad.

(I do have all of Terry Pratchetts books,but don't really consider taht a collection - just stuff that I like too much to get rid of!!)

Fun thread.   Always fun to hear what others collect.

1) AD&D / D&D / OD&D including 3E and 4E (ya, ya, I know) anything and everything
2) Other non-TSR material - JG, Roleaids, etc, again, everything
3) Other RPGs - Traveller, Warhammer, Harn, Palladium Fantasy, etc
4) Minis - Ral Partha, Darksword, Otherworld, Warhammer, Warhammer 40K (older stuff mostly)
5) Authentic reproduction weapons - just started, just picked up a sweet mace
6) Fantasy and some sci-fi books
7) Rose bushes - working on finding roses grown in the early 1900s as they seem to be more resistant to disease than the current ones ; up to 150 currently, but winter will take a few out
Small comic book collection all fantasy related
9) Boardgames - these things take up loads of space

More or less inactive
1) Baseball cards - from childhood ; got fed up with all the chase cards
2) Baseball equipment - game used bats, batting gloves, and hats ; never purchased; primarily from my days working for the Minnesota Twins
3) Stamps, coins from childhood

Inadvertant collections
1) Pets - 2 Basset Hounds, 2 Ragdoll Cats, 4 turtles, untold # of fish ; sometimes I look at all of them as they wait for dinner and wonder how I got here

Late to the show but here goes.

Active:
1.  1e AD&D - everything including nonTSR - 90% done
2.  Basic D&D - everything including nonTSR - only missing OB3 and ST1
3.  OD&D - Done, but I would eventually like to grab a woodgrain.
4.  Star Fleet Battles - all including various printings
5.  Task Force Games - everything
6.  Metagaming - everything
7.  Specific Game Mags - Ares, Dragon, S&T
8.  Gen Con Programs from all conventions I attended. I sold a bunch off in state of "confusion" about 10 years ago, and have regretted it ever since.
9.  Anything from Pacesetter Games - 90% done

Passive
1.  SPI Games and products - very slow
2.  Champions by Hero Games - replacing old collection
3.  Paranoia by West End Games only (just started)
4.  Various TSR stuff and game systems. I have started most RPGs at one time or another and some are completed, then I decided I don't care and sell them...then regret sets in and I buy again...and the endless cycle continues.

Inactive
1.  Comic Books - marvel pre 1990; actually started selling off.
2.  Man o' War by Games Workshop - just missing a few miniatures

This pretty much sums it up. I am not a printing junkie, so my AD&D stuff does not have one of each printing. However, I do strive to get the first printing where possible, and sometimes this creates multiple copies, but only here and there. Since I bought a bunch of it new off the shelf way back in the day, most are already first prints.

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Pre-season Game 2:  
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Regular season Game 9:  
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Time to start a "Detroit Lions - 2008" collection?



[Edit:  Hey, quite a few people are also selling 2008 tickets . . . ]

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