I’m not looking forward to this eventual conversation.
“Wow, there’s a lot of rulebooks here! Did you play all of these games?”
“No, just D&D.”
I might still have all the basic D&D rulebooks from Basic through Immortals, however they’re no longer in their boxes.
I don’t seem to remember ever starting a Thief named Dildo Baggins…
Sometimes I think I would do well as a DND nerd, I tried it one time in school and kept rolling 1’s over and over and over while all the other kids laughed and poked fun. It was a very unpleasant first experience though I know logically I just got really lucky with cursed dice.
They were likely laughing at your bad luck, not at you personally. My group all laughs together about ridiculously bad luck that ruins otherwise plausible outcomes. Although you said kids, so it’s possible they were laughing at you too. Kids can be like that. Find another group and give it another go. It’s tons of fun. D&D night when we have a game going is the highlight of my week.
A healthy group commiserates and takes failure as an opportunity to build bonds and make ‘interesting’ solutions to give the DM headaches! If you can cobble together a group, it’s great with people you already know.
sigh
I let my wife convince me to get rid off all my books about 5 years ago. Players handbook, DM guide, monster manual, Dieties and demigods. Hopefully someone found them and put them to good use.
Why would she ever want you to do that? That’s so sad.
I’ve thought about giving away my rulebooks many times. I have a small collection that I will realistically never use, and that takes up a significant amount of space that we could use for things we actually need. As sad as it is, sometimes you have to let go of old memories to make room for new ones.
You’ll take my 3 plastic bins worth of accumulated childhood junk, that will probably never see the light of day again, sitting in my parents basement for the last decade, which I couldn’t remember most of the contents of if you put a gun to my head right now, from my cold dead hands. I might want to play with my sentimental pieces of plastic again when I get old enough to revert back into a five year old mentally.
Nah yeah at some point you gotta let that crap go, donate or ditch. Everyone should watch a few episodes of Hoarders once in their life.
Probably because they just collect dust and never get opened. I have a special box in the garage for all of my Calvin & Hobbes, and D&D first print books. I don’t really ever open it, but I can’t bring myself to give them away.
Those are cool enough to keep somewhere as decoration tbh. Put them in some glass or something. Or just cover them in plastic and put them on the coffee table y’know?
“Hey you haven’t used these things in 30 years” is the perfect excuse when cleaning out the attic. I kept my dice, though; cold, dead hands and all that.
I suppose they’re just not interesting enough to be considered coffee table books. I mean, I haven’t looked at my (signed) Michael Whelan book in years, but that’s not going anywhere. Ever. My wife got me that for my birthday one year - she does have her brilliant moments.
Of course, last year my daughter discovered RPG in college. sigh
My ex-wife did the same to me with just about everything I owned.
Notice how I said ex.
This is why I don’t have a wife.
“Well of course I know him! He’s me!”
The orange sided books are 2nd edition.
No, the orange spine books are all 1st Edition rules. They were the second printing published around 1983.
Begin, the Edition Wars has.
4e is pants! AD&D2E ftw!
If that Deities and Demigods has Elric and HP Lovecraft in it, it’s worth something.
Elric is called Elric (obviously). Look for Hastur the Unspeakable. That’s part of Lovecraft. I guess Cthulu was in there, but I don’t remember.
IIRC Cthulu was in there. However I have Legends & Lore, not Deities & Demigods. Basically the same book, except TSR changed the name because “the devil.”
EDIT
I did not recall correctly. The Lovecraft stuff isn’t in the 2nd printing.
TSR had permission from author Michael Moorcock to include Elric but I think the publisher was unaware. And so there was a legal stink that resulted in Elric and Lovecraft being removed in a later edition of Deities and Demigods.
Legends and Lore was 2e.
Legends and Lore was 2e.
The 1985 2nd printing of L&L (where the name was changed and the Lovecraft items were removed) was still under 1st Edition rules. That’s the copy I have.
Was Legends & Lore really originally a 1st edition book?
Yes. Legends & Lore was originally a reprinting of Deities & Demigods with a new title and cover. It was later recast into a 2nd edition book. The 2nd edition version contains new content.Wow, I stand corrected. Then Legends and Lore is is the Elric-less Deities and Demigods.
There were a few interesting books published in 1985 by TSR prior to 2nd Edition. Legends and Lore, Unearthed Arcana, and Oriental Adventures.
I still have almost the entire first edition library of these at my brother’s house. I need to get them back.
