grodog wrote:Cool Ralph!---I didn't know you had a blog.  I've added you to my blogger feed

Uh oh I suddenly feel the pressure of creating regular posts  

I actually analysed my first year of blogging in the last post of 2012. Unfortunately I got to the conclusion that the blog was supposed to be about my collection and that wasn't really the focus during that first year. I ended up reposting a lot of kickstarters and things like that. I'd love to have more original content, like the adventure seed I posted, characters, reviews, maps, session reports, things like that. And actual updates about my collection of course. I try to get a post per week but like Brette says, time is the enemy indeed. I have a several stacks of books on my desk which need to end up in a collection update. I decided to stack them on my desk prior to archiving them in boxes, but yeah by now the desk isn't visible anymore  

wow!!I could only dream of owning some of the stuff you guys have. i tell you what i started buying stupidly and ignorantly paying way too much and buying everything. I never was online much at the time so I didn't have access to what I needed most and that was information. Then, the hard way I slowly learned what was good and what wasn't. this early pursuit caused my collection to swell with tons of low end stuff and on occasion I landed something mediocre. As of the last few years I have gleaned a small amount of wisdom from the superstars of rpg gaming collectors and I have spent nearly every excess dollar on continuing on filling my collection with low end stuff!Ha, still haven't learned I guess I want everything and have to narrow down my scope of interest no matter how hard that is,maybe some others have the same issues. Another problem I have is I do not like to let anything go what so ever finding value in the worst  Isle of Dread or some haggard Borderlands that I have probably 10 of both. Thankfully I'm not completely stupid and have worked my way into sw mods but finding that so up and down its ridiculous. Most are warped corners are dirty and peaking out and people dont describe well enough but i still want so i never return unless its totally bad. And who knows I'm sure some of them have been repackaged. Another problem I have is the utter lack of a list of what I have so I constantly find that I've already bought something perhaps 2 times over. I do realize that If I would stop buying all the little crappy things all the time I could save for those really rare items that I hear about from you amazing collectors. I pray that perhaps by getting to know some of you, you may realize how much i love this stuff as much as anyone having loved it from the first time I saw it being played at 4 yrs old in a neighbors basement that was back in 76'. Anyway by getting to know you folks i hope some delicious tidbits and crumbs may role off your plate that i can insert lovingly into my massive orifice of a collection that I dearly fawn over like a dotty old woman. I have a few higher end items but nothing crazy a good ob3, 5th printing of POVQueen, couple Original box sets of Judges Guild. Nothing too early. Sorry I went on for so long, I have alot of work to do!!!best  wishes

Don't feel bad...my OB3 is a pdf print.



Hector.