From: justisaur@yahoo.com   
      
   On 9/23/2025 7:30 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:   
   > On Mon, 22 Sep 2025 23:14:03 +0200, Kyonshi  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 9/22/2025 5:46 PM, Justisaur wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> 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.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> my percentage of actual print stuff isn't actually all that high. I've   
   >> got a smattering of stuff, both official (A)DnD and DnD stuff and osr   
   >> retroclone things. I've long since given up trying to actually collect   
   >> things, I have neither time nor money for that.   
   >>   
   >> I didn't even buy the 5e books, I wasn't really interested and they   
   >> always were just a bit too expensive. The only actual 5e branded things   
   >> I bought were minis and Army Painter paints with the logo on.   
      
   I've played more 5e than 4e at this point (nowhere near previous to   
   those two.)  I still find it slow and annoying, don't like a lot of the   
   changes that were made, but it's barely tolerable most of the time.  D&D   
   Beyond works well for tracking everything if the DM's paid for the   
   books.  Of course it sucks for any homebrew.   
      
   > I still buy the core D&D books in print, usually (DMG, MM, PHB) just   
   > because... well, it doesn't feel like a proper gaming session if I   
   > don't have those books next to me when I play. But most of the other   
   > stuff is PDF now, largely because I just don't have the room to store   
   > everything (at least not physically. Hard-drives are cheap though so   
   > digital collections can get quite large ;-)   
      
   Yeah, I've got hundreds of books, modules, splats, magazines in PDF.   
   > But I so rarely played 4E/5E (and even 3E) that I never really cared   
   > about getting all the books. (Honestly, with 4E I'm not even sure what   
   > _counts_ as the core books, since WOTC made such a hash of it). Even   
   > with 1E/2E, a lot of the material was more 'reference' and   
   > 'inspirational' than actually used in gameplay. But it was fun to read   
   > the latest adventures and run my fingers over the big poster maps, so   
   > I don't regret the purchases for those editions.   
   The books for 4e were great, it all sounded good on paper (except I   
   didn't like what they did with wizards.) In actual play it was slow   
   technical garbage past maybe 3rd level.  I loved the traps and hazards   
   and still reference those, and the fantastic mounts they had in the DMG.   
     Their 5 room dungeon collections called Delves were great. The skill   
   challenges sounded good, I managed to get them to work, but I had to   
   read a lot of internet people giving ideas of how to do it.  Way more   
   effort than it's worth in all respects.  I also collected a lot of the   
   figures as the common ones were really cheap, I bought a bunch of the   
   star wars commons (one of each) in a big lot of like 70 for I think it   
   was $12.  I'd buy a few packs so I had one of each of the commons to   
   begin with.  Those I still have.  Yes they're low quality with muddy   
   paints and not a lot of detail, but they're enough for monsters and   
   enemies.  I repainted a couple duplicates I had and they came out quite   
   nice.  I probably have pictures of the ones I repainted somewhere, but   
   can't seem to find them right now.   
      
   Core for 4e was the same as always.  Though they made a somewhat new   
   core with "essentials" which was somewhat better, but didn't fix the   
   problem of playing slow as molasses with tons of conditional minor bonuses.   
      
   Other than the starting adventure which I thought was good, what little   
   I played and tried as a DM that were published were horrible too.  One   
   of those was that 6 hour combat against 1 monster...  At least I can't   
   say it was forgettable, but only because of the length and how bad it was.   
      
   > Well, except maybe those pointless 'trading cards' TSR shat out in the   
   > early 90s. What the fuck was the point of those?   
      
   I had some of the monster card packs, I'm assuming those were different.   
     I think I bought them cheap at a meet or yard sale though.  And yes, I   
   never used them, or at most used them once. While they were in color the   
   art was very poor and I liked what was in the MM better.   
      
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