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Just wondering if anyone shares my addiction, looking across at my wargaming shelf i notice i have 19 odd rulebooks for different systems, that is not counting the expansion i have bought for most of them. Then next to them a collection of books belonging to six different RPG systems.

Not quite sure why i own so many, i can only play a few. Perhaps its my search for that 'perfect' set of rules, or perhaps its just that i rather like getting a new book and simply reading and learning a new set of rules, even if i only go on to try them once or twice with my very patient group of players.

Maybe its also that i like to think i will one day sit around with that group and bash together a set of rules from scratch for us to use, and that all these different systems have bits i would like to draw on.

And despite all this books only currently play Battlegroup Kursk and SAGA

So does anyone else have a similar collection? and if so why have they amassed them?

What i own...

Blitzkerig commander
Coldwar commander
Bolt action (+2 supplements)
Warhammer 40k (4th, 5th and 6th and a silly amount of codex’s)
Battlegroup Kursk
Hail Caesar (+2 supplements)
Black Powder
Field of Glory
Flames of war (+3 supplements)
SAGA (+2 supplements)
Warmaster
LOTR – War of the ring
Firefight Normandy
Sharpe Practice
I ain’t been shot mum
Nuts
Pike and Shotte
Force on Force
Tomorrows War
War and Conquest

RPG wise...

AD&D 3rd
Cyberpunk
Shadowrun
Starwars D20
WFRP 2nd
Dark Heresy

SHADOWRUN!!!! I love Shadowrun, if only I could get a good group around where I live. :(

I sued to be like that for RPGs... Bought the core book, then never got expansions. Then went through a stage where it seemed I kept buying RPG box sets (TSR produced a lot of these in the early 90s) that never got really used beyond a read or two.

Best remediation for me was trying to get more project focused and putting some constraints on my personal budgeting.

Also, note that moving sucks when you realize just how much stuff you have to pack up and ship. And books are heavy.

Until recently I never thought of my self as that type, but recently I took a look at all the rulebooks I've assembled for wargames and and it's fairly ridiculous. Though I have a few favorites that I come back to most times, I'm always on the lookout for that "perfect" ruleset.

My list from memory (there are others for sure):
40k (have at least 20 associated books)
Battletech (got about 40 of these. Love the background, but don't play the game)
MOTH Ion Age
Shockforce
Neutron York 3k
Future War Commander
Tomorrow's War
Song of Blades and Heroes (and ALL it's supplements)
Mechawar
Combat Zone
Mech Attack
USEME Sci-Fi
USEME Modern
USEME Starship combat
VOR
Necromunda (and supplements)
Inquisitor (Does this count as a wargame? )
Warhammer 6th edition
Flying Lead
Hordes of The Things (HoTT)

On my shelf of mini-binders of free and/or playtest rulesets that I found to be good enough to print and bind. It is a small point of pride that I've actually played over 2/3 of these rules.
WarEngine
Panzer 8 Sci-Fi
Full Thrust Cross Dimensions
Apocalypticum
Wastelands
Wastelands 3 Meltdown
This is Not a Test
Mordheim
In The Emperor's Name
Song of Void and Stars
Mecha Tac: Giant Stompy Robots edition
Gorkamorka

This is what I have for table top games.

WH40k 4th,5th and 6th rule book + all the codexs -except Tau
Pike and Shot
Black Powder
Hail Caesar + supplements
Flames Of War Mediterranean campaign book
Lotr main book and Fallen Realms, Angmar, Mordor, Moria and the one for the kingdom of men source book.
Tamurkan Throne of Chaos
Horus Heresy book 1 Betrayal



RPG

World of Darkness series
Dark Heresy and the full collection of GM books and monster manuals
Chutulu punk
Call Of Chutulu

As I've been cleaning out my attic for a expected move I've come to the conclusion that gamers are hoarders. We buy and keep books because we love the systems and "want to play again some day", we buy expansion our friend already has because we want another boom to put on our shelve. I've been getting rid of boxes and boxes of books Had stopped playing with before I moved here ten years ago. Hell some of the companies went out of business before I moved here. I had dozens of books for West End Game's D6 Star Wars system, and theres been four new Star Wars systems out since then! I've been selling books, computer games, board games and hero clix for whatever I can get at conventions, Craigslist and the swap meets at the local gaming club. It's funded new games, lunches, strip club visits and car payments and it's about eight copy paper boxes of books I won't be moving AGAIN this summer. But every gamer I know with few exceptions has a closet or more full of books they haven't used in many years.

I was oddly the opposite for most of the time, reusing to buy any rulebook/codex unless I was for certain playing the army/game (even then I never owned any warhammer rulebooks until 8th ed fantasy, and that was a few weeks ago I got it

I did buy a lot of codex's in 3rd ed because they were cheap and lost and the damned needed 3

On my shelf next to my computer:

Warhammer 40k
Necromunda
D&D - (Three and a half editions worth. Plus four different campaign sourcebooks.)
Werewolf: the Apocalypse
Vampire: the Masquerade
Deadlands

With a few more dozen in storage.

Within sight:

Vampire The masquerade
Werewolf - the Apocalypse
Changeling the Dreaming
Mage- The Ascension
(plus many sourcebooks, clanbooks et al)
Exalted (1st and second ed) plus all books for the system
D20 Modern, plus all books
1st-3.5 ed D and D plus just about every book..
Necromunda
Original Space Hulk
Tyranid Attack
Pathfinder -pretty much all they have, though some are in the PDF vault
In Nomine
Cyberpunk 2020 - all books
Tunnels and Trolls
Runequest
40K 3rd-6th ed plus many codexes
WHFB 1st and 2nd ed, plus Warhammer Armies, Armybook : Undead and a few others
Fighting Fantasy
Incredible amounts of Choose Your Own Adventure books (Warlock of Firetop Mountain still a big fave)
Many Many modules for a bunch of systems
Earthdawn
Gurps
HERO
Bunch of Warmachine stuff i forgot about.
Does Dreadfleet count? Probably missed a few there too due to being in boxes or out of sight..




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Oh, and Faeries Eat Meat

Great game that..

I used to have Vampire (the masquerade 1st and 2n eds - not that crap Requiem stuff), Werewolf (Apocalypse 1st and 2nd ed), and a bunch of other rulebooks and stuff on the bookshelf.

I hadn't played them in years and wasn't going to be anytime soon and someone else wanted them. So they got offloaded. They served their purpose with me and it was time for them to go.

Same with my old 40k rulebooks and codices going back to 2nd ed.

My cyberpunk 2020 and shadowrun stuff, however, stays.

Lemme think for a sec;
BattleTech Master Rules
BattleTech Technical Readout 3025
Warhammer 40,000 3rd, 4th, and 5th editions
Codex: Space Marines 3rd, 4th, and 5th editions
Codex: Chaos Space Marines 3.5 Edition
Codex: Eye of Terror
Codex: Orks 3rd Edition
Codex: Dark Eldar 3rd edition (first one)
Warhammer Fantasy 5th (both rules and armies or whatever the second book was called), 6th, and 7th editions
Warhammer Armies: Skaven 5th, 6th, and 7th edition
Warhammer Magic 5th edition
CAV 1.0
CAV Journal of Recognition 1
Warlord 1st edition
100 Kingdoms: Warband (though it's just a wee booklet that comes in the starter set)
Warmachine: Prime MK II
Forces of Warmachine: Cryx
Forces of Warmachine: Cygnar
Malifaux Rules Manual
Rezolution: A Dark Tomorrow
Wargods of Aegyptus
Ronin: War (for some reason. It was on sale for like 8 bucks. Never played it. I think I read the rules once, and as I generally don't collect models I don't intend to game with, it was a waste of money IMO).

Pretty much all the models I own are for the game systems above; I actually don't have any Malifaux or Wargods minis, but I plan on picking some up at some point. I also own Dystopian Wars minis, but not the rulebook, which I also plan on picking up at some point.

My "collection" of RPGs is much smaller:
Dungeons and Dragons 3.0 Player's Handbook
Promethean: The Created

Reason being that generally when I played games the DM's had rulebooks for us to use (and in at least one campaign, we completely eschewed the rules for actually roleplaying everything).

I'm trying to fight rulebook addiction...

I fall off the wagon every once in a while.

Last time I 'fell' I had the following:

Warmachine Prime MkII
Wrath
Colossals
Forces of Warmachine: Khador
Hordes Primal MkII
Domination
Forces of Hordes: Circle Orboros
Iron Kingdoms RPG

Warhammer
Warhammer 40,000
Skaven Army Book
Warriors of Chaos Army Book
Crusade of Fire
Codex: Imperial Guard
Codex: Chaos Space Marines
Codex: Dark Eldar
Codex: Space Marines

Malifaux Rulebook (the little one)
Malifaux 1.5
3 Malifaux expansion books (I forgot what they were called)

Infinity
Human Sphere
Another Infinity expansion book (I forget what it was called)

Dark Age: Apocalypse
Dark Age Forcelists
Dark Age expansion (I forgot what it was called)

Flames of War

Pathfinder
Shadowrun
Cthulhutech
Star Wars RPG (not the saga edition but one of the editions before it).

Now all I have is
Warhammer
Warhammer 40,000
Crusade of Fire
Codex: Dark Angels
Codex: Chaos Space Marines
Codex: Space Marines

Star Wars RPG (not the saga edition but one of the editions before it).

Come this year's tax return we'll see if I can keep it to the above haha.