stratochamp wrote:thanks for the nice thoughts everybody. i had been lugging around 250 legal boxes of stuff for many years, so it can eventually find it`s way on to shelves. to echo formcritic, i sure hope my son likes gaming and appreciates the game room er, i mean the living room (thanks dear) and all thats in it so he can pass it on to a next generation... many if not most of my rares have been purchased at gencon (since 1978) so it`s great that such a large acaeum group will be there this year (remember the great things people got last year ?)....i think the thread was called i.o.`s little castle, but there were great pictures of mike`s fabulous setup down in florida...and thank you bracton for helping me move all this stuff probably half a dozen times (although i promised him never again). he is the best dm not named mentzer i`ve ever played with, he was the best man at our wedding and my friend for nearly 30 years. i have gotten the better end of the deal for sure.
stratochamp wrote:i had been collecting frp for about 10 years when in 1987 i made the odd decision to try and get one of every (english language) paper frp items ever published. but only paper frp items. no miniatures, computer games, science fiction, cyberpunk, boardgames etc. 20+ years later on the shelves are 5119 books and modules, 1897 magazines, 29 tournamant adventures (r5-r10 counts as 6 for example), 42 manuscripts (like steve marsh`s city of the revenaunt) and 57 call of cthulhu items (which obviously don`t count as frp but they`re so cool). so there are 7144 singles there (plus the rare doubles like brown boxes). they`re alphabetical by company and then in stock number order. the boxed sets are first, then the modules and then the magazines, with the digest sized items along the top. i had to do that (and put the boxed sets on their side) to maximize space. the shelves are 30` long & 9.5` high, but there`s no more room. we`re going to build some small shelves on the opposite wall to house any new additions.
stratochamp wrote:20+ years later on the shelves are 5119 books and modules, 1897 magazines, 29 tournamant adventures (r5-r10 counts as 6 for example), 42 manuscripts (like steve marsh`s city of the revenaunt) and 57 call of cthulhu items (which obviously don`t count as frp but they`re so cool). so there are 7144 singles there (plus the rare doubles like brown boxes). they`re alphabetical by company and then in stock number order. the boxed sets are first, then the modules and then the magazines, with the digest sized items along the top.
JZavoda wrote:Well you don't want to put boxes on boxes or they will deform. You should think about light fading. Unless you have glass doors that filter the light the edges exposed are going to (eventually) fade. I wondered about how they were organized when I saw the two versions of basic boxes on the same shelves with the woodgrain and white boxes.
stratochamp wrote:originally i wasn`t collecting solo books until i had a conversation with lawrence schick who convinced me otherwise. oh, i should mention i decided to stop getting new stuff if it was published after 2003. so i`m trying for the first 30 years (1974-2003) of frp, somebody else can get the next 30 years. anyway, there are about 200 things i`m looking for from 1974 to 1998; of those 200 about 50 are solo books because i wasn`t targeting them at first. i`m missing fighting fantasy 55 & up, i have the dragon warriors books, missing lone wolf 20-23 & 25 & up. there are 30 magazines i`m looking for (not including fanzines like owl & weasel, beholder, bohemian ear spoon etc. you could make that your life`s work, oh wait you are brette ! ). from 1999-2003 there are about 300 things i`m looking for; i`ll get every lousy d20 one of them eventually, it`s just taking me longer because i refuse to buy them unless they are about 75% off...
stratochamp wrote:i loved what jasonw said about your room kingofpain, that you are surrounding by your favorite things. well my favorite thing in your cool room is king conan sitting on his uneasy throne. where did you pick that up?
davidc wrote:Does anyone recall a thread with other images of collections? I might be thinking of a different forum (if so, my apologies), but I sort of remember seeing other photos...The items themselves were impressive, sure, but I found the different ways they were displayed interesting.If the games and books one collects are a reflection of the collector, then how they're shown must say something, too... I'd be interested if anyone has more images to share.David