From: justisaur@yahoo.com   
      
   On 9/21/2025 7:30 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:   
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
      
   I've got a good chunk.  I had to really cut down last move, and sold or   
   dumped in the trash anything that I couldn't, most of my 3e-4e stuff. I   
   couldn't bear to get rid of all the stuff I had previous to that, but   
   have considered getting rid of my Dragon Magazines as they take up a   
   couple shelves and I have the archive which was on CD or DVD or whatever   
   it was.   
      
   I didn't buy much for 5e, pretty much just the base 3 books.   
      
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