Keith the Thief wrote:
Excellent question, actually.  
It happens to be the reason I started the thread.
My collection is very inconsistent in quality and quantity.
But rather than going through and making sure I finish off my <insert collection here>, I'd rather focus on something I enjoy collecting and also enjoy reading.

I've always been a fan of monster manuals.
Basically, I just think monsters are cool.

However, I was curious what you guys have enjoyed collecting.
The idea being that you might suggest something I'd really enjoy.

Philosophically, I just have a collector's personality.
I could actually say, honestly, that one of my hobbies is collecting.
Collecting what?
Whatever interests me.
For example, I love atlases and history.
So I collect historical and military atlases.
And I like to organize what I collect.
Especially small shiny objects.   Ooooooo

Does this make any sense?

Oh yeah.  It makes too much sense.  I just like collecting too.  It's interesting to me that even some animals like collecting, but I digress.  I used to collect insects, then stamps, then coins, then Pokemon cards, then Mage Knight and all along a lot of that journey, I was collecting D&D stuff, including miniatures.  Once I found eBay, I went hog wild because I was making a small amount of money each week, and then larger amounts of money.

And then I decided to collect comic books.  Oh my.  They take up lots of space.  Of course, I needed long boxes, boards, and new, shiny bags.  I like shiny too.  

All that being said, and to answer your question, I like modules.  I have a complete set of Dungeon, and a set of Dungeon Crawl Classics up until they changed the way the cover looks, and I even have a bunch of the DCC new covers.

One of the things I am working on collecting now are memories.  I like being with my family and traveling.  I've used more money now on memories than I have my collection.  I am saving up to see the pyramids with my wife now, and I'm almost halfway there!  

Good luck!  

benjoshua wrote:
Oh yeah.  It makes too much sense.  I just like collecting too.  It's interesting to me that even some animals like collecting, but I digress.  I used to collect insects, then stamps, then coins, then Pokemon cards, then Mage Knight and all along a lot of that journey, I was collecting D&D stuff, including miniatures.  Once I found eBay, I went hog wild because I was making a small amount of money each week, and then larger amounts of money.

And then I decided to collect comic books.  Oh my.  They take up lots of space.  Of course, I needed long boxes, boards, and new, shiny bags.  I like shiny too.  ;)

All that being said, and to answer your question, I like modules.  I have a complete set of Dungeon, and a set of Dungeon Crawl Classics up until they changed the way the cover looks, and I even have a bunch of the DCC new covers.

One of the things I am working on collecting now are memories.  I like being with my family and traveling.  I've used more money now on memories than I have my collection.  I am saving up to see the pyramids with my wife now, and I'm almost halfway there!   8)

Good luck!   :)

I've never collected comics.
Superheroes never appealed to me.

To put it in literary terms, I prefer "ordinary people in extraordinary situations" as opposed to "extraordinary people in ordinary situations."

But I have collected everything from autographed first editions to laptops (the latter not on purpose).

The biggest part of my D&D collection is The Dragon magazine.
I love how you can browse through the early issues and see the way the D&D game progressed.  
But alas, I overdid it, and now -- like your comic book collection -- I have tons of Dragon issues that I don't really want.

Anyway, yes, memories with the family are indeed the priceless ones (well, those and wood box sets :-)   My son -- in 6th grade -- is the first one in the family to ever play football, so it is a blast to be out there in the bleachers cheering him on.

Thanks for the suggestions!  
Please keep them coming!!

Keith

P.S. For those of you in the States, have a great Labor Day holiday.

So if you were going to choose one of the classic campaign settings to collect, what would you pick?

* Greyhawk
* Blackmoor
* Planescape
* Forgotten Realms

Obviously there are many more, but these interest me.

Thanks,
Keith

Dark Sun would be my first choice (had a complete collection once, regretted selling it off almost immediately), but of the given choices, in this order:

Planescape (simplest to delimit, not all that many items)
Greyhawk (you've got to decide what is "canon" and what's not, but again it's a manageable project)
Forgotten Realms (it could take you the rest of your life, which could be viewed as a good thing... hundreds of items)
Blackmoor (never had any interest, and there's not all that much to collect)

bamajon1974 wrote:
How about collecting all of them?

Many PS items are quite expensive though. Was this campaign setting really that popular, were the accessories rare, was collecting this setting a fad, or some combination of the three?

From what I understand, the massive prices commanded by some Planescape items today are a result of majorly low print runs by TSR combined with a lot of people looking to cannibalize it for good ideas on running planar adventures for 3rd edition.

I never gave PS a second glance when it was originally released--the Realms was my big thing, and $30 boxed sets were nearly always out of my price range when my allowance was a mere $5 a week.  Now that I'm older and have given Planescape a second chance, I'm absolutely in love with it and I'm trying to fill every hole in my collection.  It's easily become my favorite setting in 2nd edition, surpassing even Ravenloft and the Realms.

Greyhawk, but of course!

grodog wrote:Greyhawk, but of course!

I am leaning that way because ...

formcritic wrote:I would say Greyhawk for setimental reasons.

I would say Planescape for power gaming purposes.

I would say Forgotten Realms if you prefer 2nd Edition, post-Gygax TSR (which strikes me as dang near disloyal)

Blackmoor is sufficiently wierd if that's what you're looking for.

... of what Mark says: Sentimentality.

Blackmoor was intriguing when I was young because I preferred sci-fi over fantasy.  
That's no longer the case.

FWIW, like the settings I've seen in Pathfinder, but that's off-topic.

BTW, what does "power gaming" mean?

Thanks
Keith

grodog wrote:
FWIW, I think Greyhawk has a lot more than mere sentiment, but if you're looking for a generic fantasy world that's big enough to define however you want to, and to fit in any culture/history/module/campaign idea, then functionally there's not a lot of difference between GH and FR.  

If you're planning to try to build your campaigns using established canonical content, then TSR published quite a lot more FR materials than for GH, so there's more FR to collect if you want to follow all of the setting's "official" goings-on, and such.

If, OTOH, you're just going to use the setting to hang your own campaigns on, you can easily get away with either GH or the FR using their respective core box sets and just the articles published in Dragon.

I'd eventually use it for dungeon crawls, but right now it's a way to focus my collecting on something fun.  
GH certainly fits that bill.  
FR probably would, too.
PS appeals to that mystery of portals/gateways/Wile E. Coyote-type holes to other worlds.

I'm also exploring other settings, like Wilderlands of High Fantasy (which I'd forgotten about), and Ravenloft (which I'm not sure I knew existed as a campaign).

Thanks,
Keith

Keith the Thief wrote:BTW, what does "power gaming" mean?

Geared-up player characters with massive stats and high levels go at it with thundering critters from the far distant planes.  

Wizards launch cosmic titans to smash their way across the ether with player characters standing in the way of world-crushing behemoths of doom.

Astral archfiends accumulate arcane artifacts and activate awesomely armed and armored atomoton armageddon.

Actually...I haven't read a Planscape module.  I bought several modules at Half Price Books last month (for cheap) but I have not opened them up after I typed them into my collection Excel file.

I just figured that rumbling across the planes with demons, demodands, daemons, slaadi, modrons, devas, archons, gith, shedu, drow, yochlol, yuggoth, devils, dracoliches, ilithids and malelaphants would make for first-class power gamer silliness.

Am I wrong?

Q: Shedu be?
A: Shattered, shattered!