From: spallshurgenson@gmail.com   
      
   Is this newsgroup dead? Hell no! It ain't dead 'til the last NNTP   
   server goes belly up (and even then it will live in the archives!).   
      
   Now, I know I'm no kyonshi but I think I can inject a _little_   
   vitality into the old girl. How 'bout this bit of news?   
      
   EnWorld recently posted an article asking, "How much D&D Stuff Is   
   There Anyway?"*. Even sticking just to the official material, it turns   
   out there's alot: over 1000 books, measuring in at over 120,000 pages   
   that would have -had you purchased them new at time of release- cost   
   you more than $20K USD (see the webpage for details on how they got   
   these numbers).   
      
   The sad thing is, over the years I owned a significant chunk of those.   
   Mostly BECMI, 1E and 2E, but that's almost half the total right there.   
   (I didn't own ALL the books from those editions, but a lot of them? Oh   
   yeah, you bet I did).   
      
   No, the _really_ sad thing is that over the years I had to discard   
   most of those books as I moved around from place to place.   
      
   No, wait, the really _really_ sad bit is that I then went back and   
   repurchased a lot of those discard books in PDF format ;-)   
      
      
   So, what's your percentage?   
      
      
      
      
      
   * read it here   
   https://www.enworld.org/threads/how-much-d-d-stuff-is-there-anyway.715374/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)