cailano Posted April 3 Clone Share Posted April 3 I was thinking about my recent Kickstarter purchase for Gods of the Forbidden North, a truly massive OSR campaign. Because I own quite a few campaign / megadungeons that are just unreasonably large. I could play any of them for multiple years. I'll list them in the format of title (system), with OSR being shorthand for B/X compatibility. Castle of the Silver Prince (AD&D) Barrowmaze (OSR) Dwarrowdeep (OSR) Gods of the Forbidden North (OSR) The Halls of Arden Vul (OSR) Rappan Athuk (Swords and Wizardry) The Umbrage Saga (Castles and Crusades) I also have quite a few Pathfinder 1E Adventure Paths that I never got a chance to play all the way through: Rise of the Runelords Curse of the Crimson Throne Jade Regent Carrion Crown Iron Gods And I won't even get started about the pile of shorter adventures, any one of which could take between 3 and 18 months to complete in PbP. I don't even know how many I have. If you include PDFs it might get into the hundreds. I never need to buy another campaign! Isn't that great? Heck, I never need to buy another RPG system since I already have what I need to run all the above adventures. I wonder how much money I'll save? Actually, I already know the answer to that question, which is "none." I will save zero dollars. Because, friends, I have a problem with collecting RPG stuff. Does anyone else share my affliction? We need a support group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faeryl_ Posted April 3 Clone Share Posted April 3 I've never had the money to spend on such things, but I absolutely went out of my way to collect all of WotC's free pre-made adventures for 3.5e. I have them collecting digital dust on my hard drive and have transferred them over with each new computer I buy (not that there's been many of those). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powderhorn Posted April 4 Clone Share Posted April 4 I literally have two books on the coffee table my feet are kicked up on that I've yet to even open... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrAndrewJ Posted April 4 Clone Share Posted April 4 My library at DrivethruRPG currently says: "1339 items." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybersavant Posted April 4 Clone Share Posted April 4 i lost hundreds/thousands when the HD went, thinning out the print stuff due to space issues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yamazaki Posted April 4 Clone Share Posted April 4 I own a good handful of modules and Adventure Paths, and as much as I would love to run them, I continue to find that I'm not good at running modules. Just never could figure out how to best make them sing, ya know? So I stick to homebrew stuff nowadays, although modules make for good resources of maps and encounters and the occasional plot idea. I will, however, continue to burn money on RPG systems that I may not ever run... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa Bear Posted April 4 Clone Share Posted April 4 Probably 3/4. Of the systems I have I have not, nor will ever play... Partly due to the fact that I cut my o n throat designing new systems that I will also never play. The good part of that is that my FtF group actually likes trying out my systems, so that is encouraging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cailano Posted April 4 Author Clone Share Posted April 4 10 hours ago, cybersavant said: i lost hundreds/thousands when the HD went, thinning out the print stuff due to space issues That is the worst thing I've heard today, sorry that happened to you. I keep all my digital stuff on Dropbox to avoid that very problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybersavant Posted April 5 Clone Share Posted April 5 to have enough space, that costs money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faeryl_ Posted April 5 Clone Share Posted April 5 Backup hard drives are super helpful if you can afford them. Depending on the size of your collection, even a humble USB storage might be enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbcowboy Posted April 5 Clone Share Posted April 5 2 hours ago, cybersavant said: to have enough space, that costs money $20/year = 100GB on Google drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cailano Posted April 5 Author Clone Share Posted April 5 1 hour ago, dbcowboy said: $20/year = 100GB on Google drive I just checked, and even my ridiculous PDF collection only takes up 40GB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faeryl_ Posted April 5 Clone Share Posted April 5 There are some cheap external hard drives for around the same amount as a one-time cost. The small, "up to 80 GB" ones that is. I have a couple TB available on my external drive and I barely use any of it, but it's there if I need it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybersavant Posted April 5 Clone Share Posted April 5 my backup is ~ 300GB, and that's not close to what i lost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malkavian Grin Posted April 6 Clone Share Posted April 6 Yeah... Guilty. I've bought dozens of books/pdfs I've never even opened... On 4/5/2024 at 1:09 AM, cailano said: I just checked, and even my ridiculous PDF collection only takes up 40GB. Um...yeah... My 1 terabyte HD used mostly for pdfs, pictures and some music id's sitting at about 800+ gigs full. Many, many rpgs... I think i have a problem.with passing up a deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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