POST YOUR GAMER PENI- I MEAN LIBRARY!

[Sean-o-tron]

I know, I know, boring thread is boring.  I'm just curious what games everyone has bought as opposed to actually played.

I might as well whip it out first (HUR HUR I'M A COMEDIC GENIUS).

     (* denotes played)

• All Flesh Must Be Eaten
• Best Friends
• Breaking the Ice
• Contenders
• Call of Cthulhu
• DnD 3.5*
• DnD 4th Ed.
• Dust Devils*
• Inspectres*
• Intergalactic Cooking Challenge
• L5R 2nd Ed.
• L5R 3rd Ed.
• MAID: the RPG
• Monsters and Other Childish Things
• The Mountain Witch
• The Mouse Guard Roleplaying Game
• Mutants and Masterminds
• Ninja Burger: The RPG
• Piledrivers & Powerbombs
• Pirates of the Spanish Main
• Polaris
• Rifts
• Savage Worlds Explorer's Edition
• The Shab Al-Hiri Roach
• Spirit of the Century
• Super Gachapon Fighter Omega Infinity
• Traveller (Mongoose)
• Universalis
• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
• Wilderness of Mirrors
• The World of Darkness

A single tear rolls down my cheek when I think of all the games I've yet to play.

[Phelanar]

Let's see.

• D&D4e
• D&D3.x
• Exalted
• Werewolf: The Apocalypse (dunno which edition)
• Vampire: The Masquerade (dunno which edition)
• Call of Cthulhu
• Cthulhutech
• Kult
• In Nomine
• Jovian Chronicles
• Silhouette Core
• Heavy Gear 2e
• Heavy Gear 3e
• Mechwarrior
• d20 Dark*Matter
• d20 Dark Inheritance
• Star Wars Saga Edition
• Star Wars Revised Second Edition
• BESM 2e
• Ex Machina
• Slayers d20
• Mekton Zeta
• Bubblegum Crisis RPG
• Legend of the Five Rings (dunno which edition)
• Warhammer 40K: Dark Heresy

I also have a handful that I got in free PDF form like Scion, Deadlands, and Ars Magica.

[Tadanori Oyama]

• Dungeons and Dragons 3.0+
• Dungeons and Dragons 3.5*
• Dungeons and Dragons 4+
• Warhammer 40k: Dark Heresy
• Legend of the Five Rings
• Vampire: The Masquerade*
• Mage: The Ascension*
• Vampire: The Reqiuem+
• Werewolf: The Forsaken
• Mage: The Awakening*
• Changeling: The Lost+
• Hunter: The Vigil+
• Promethium: The Created
• New World of Darkness+

• Dawn something or other
• All Flesh Must Be Eaten
• BESM 2nd Edition
• Mutants and Masterminds 2nd Edition*

• Anima: Beyond Fantasy
• Cthulhu Tech
• Call of Cthulhu
• Exalted: First Edition
• Exalted: Second Edition
• GURPS Fourth Edition

There's probably more I'm forgetting.

Updated to include played games. An astrorik denotes simple play while a cross represents a structured, successful campaign.[/list][/list]

[Dawnsteel]

• Dungeons and Dragons 1st Ed
• Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Ed
• Dungeons and Dragons 3.5
• Dungeons and Dragons 4E
• Call of Cthulhu
• Shadowrun
• HōL: Human Occupied Landfill
• Whispering Vault
• Amber Diceless RPG
• Dogs in the Vineyard
• Houses of the Blooded

Someone now please tell me that size doesn't matter?

[Tadanori Oyama]

Someone now please tell me that size doesn't matter?

Size matters so very, very much. We're just measuring raw material ownership rather than skill. Of course, this doesn't really account for source books and the like. I mean, if I stack all of my RPGs books on top of each other, the stack is taller than I am. Likely 2/3 of that is source books rather than core.

[JonHook]

Physical RPG Books:
Savage Worlds

PDF RPG Books:
Call of Cthulhu
Chaosium's BRP

Board Games:
Wings of War
Carcasone
Sword & Skull

These are just the ones I can think of while here at work.

[Sean-o-tron]

Size matters so very, very much. We're just measuring raw material ownership rather than skill. Of course, this doesn't really account for source books and the like. I mean, if I stack all of my RPGs books on top of each other, the stack is taller than I am. Likely 2/3 of that is source books rather than core.

Same here.  Oh man, I sunk so much money into DnD 3.5 books.  If I wasn't constantly fellating WotC in high school I probably could have bought a car .

Still, I'm wanting to know how much of everyone's investment into this hobby has been returned in entertainment value, like a paid-to-played ratio, or something like that.

[Tadanori Oyama]

My paid to played would be quite low. Luckily I get my own entertain out of the books by spending my time reading them as if they where novels. I find books of basically random facts and rules to be interesting and that's what RPG manuals are.

[Setherick]

Iron Heroes
CoC
AFMBE

My main library is over 300 books of American literature, philosophy and theory. All of which has come in handy as a player.

[clockworkjoe]

* means I played or ran it

*D&D 3.X
*D&D 4e - core plus a few sourcebooks
numerous 3E sourcebooks both WOTC and third party
*CoC
*Delta Green - main, countdown, eyes only
at least 20 CoC books
*twilight 2000
*M&M 2nd edition - and first edition
*AFMBE
Promethean
*The entire Hunter the Reckoning line
Wraith plus 3 sourcebooks
*Mage oWoD
Dark Heresy
*a bunch of planescape boxed sets
warhammer fantasy roleplay - both editions
several boxes of bargain bin finds
*unknown armies
wild talents essential edition
*monsters and other childish things - entire line thus published
*prime time adventures
sorcerer
CoC d20
*Gurps 3rd edition
*GURPS 4th edition
Fading Suns
*Scion - hero only
*Fates Worse than Death - actually ran this crazy fucking game - things a phonebook packed with all kinds of neat shit
WORLD OF SYNNIBARR
*Reign
*Colonial Gothic
Cthulhu Live
Dozens of Dungeon and Dragon back issues
Mutant City Blues
*Fear Itself
*Esoterrorists
Trail of Cthulhu
Alpha Omega
Dogs in the Vineyard
*Some assorted palladium books - prolly at least Heroes Unlimited and the rifts corebook I might still have Nightbane

Engel
True20
*d20 modern
SLA Industries
Tribe 8
Gear Krieg
Heavy Gear
Underground
*Dark Conspiracies
Chill
Inquisitor
Pandemonium
Conan - d20 mongoose version
Elric
*Paranoia
*Hackmaster - all the monster books plus a few others
Castles and Crusaders
Orpheus - entire product line
Changeling - oWoD
Marc Miller's Traveller

That's all I can find, not counting war games, board games, card games and the like. I also have a library of assorted academic, filmmaking, and esoteric books that I will not list here because this has already wasted enough of my time as is.  There's a decent stack of various sourcebooks that I won't list either.

EDIT: more games added.

[Sean-o-tron]

Not quite long enough, keep going.  How much of that have you played?

My paid to played would be quite low. Luckily I get my own entertain out of the books by spending my time reading them as if they where novels. I find books of basically random facts and rules to be interesting and that's what RPG manuals are.

I thoroughly agree.

[clockworkjoe]

updated list. The rest of my stuff is in storage. not going to drive out to get it either.

[Sean-o-tron]

Pardon me as I openly weep.  I hope you enjoy my deliciously salty tears.

[Maze]

And apparently, I've got a vagina.

I lost my D&D books during a move last summer, and bought M&M 2e but my friends have it most of the time (as they keep fucking changing their characters). I also used to have a bunch of esoteric rpg books that I eventually gave away or lost.

[Tadanori Oyama]

And apparently, I've got a vagina.

I lost my D&D books during a move last summer, and bought M&M 2e but my friends have it most of the time (as they keep fucking changing their characters). I also used to have a bunch of esoteric rpg books that I eventually gave away or lost.

Looks like we found the omega nerd of our little pack.