All of it now. I got rid of the RPGs I wasn't or would never play.

10% of my current collection, maybe 15%.
Of all the games I have ever owned? 2%?

I've used in some capacity almost every D&D, Earthdawn,  Savage Worlds, and Shatterzone book that sits on my shelf. I have a lot of Savage Worlds PDFs I haven't used for play such as Solomon Kane, High Space, Accursed, Winter Eternal, Streets of Bedlam, some Ultimate Guides and Mercenary Breed by Mystical Throne Entertainment.  

I have a Pathfinder core book and some PDFs I have never used. We never did start a Pathfinder game.  

I have a Bare Bones Fantasy book that I have never played. I've used the random dungeon generator tables in the back for games though.

I have a Trinity book I have never played.

I've also got a lot of other PDFs that have never seen play ranging from RPGs to wargames to board games. Fading Suns, Blue Planet, Warzone, Mutant Chronicles, One Dice , Skirmish, Cards& Quests, Deadly Missions , Demon World, FATE, Outrider, Star Clash, Chaos 6010 A.D., Pirates & Dragons , Era the Consortium, Era of War, and Neverwhere from a quick glance through files.

So for stuff that I actually own in print, I've used over 75%. For PDF stuff, I've probably used 25% or so, I have a lot of PDFs that get read and never played.

Really it all comes down to time and budget. We like Savage Worlds and have a lot of books for it, so it is the one getting played right now.

Right now I am running my Necessary Evil game biweekly. Ted is working on an Interface Zero/Shadowrun type of Savage Worlds game to run biweekly as well.

Quote from: Daddy Warpig;876041"How Much of your RPG Collection has seen Play?"

As always, not enough.

Not NEAR enough.

This is the best answer! :worship:

Quote from: Tetsubo;874857I'd say 1-2% but I am a collector. I have 60+ linear feet of shelf space dedicated to RPG books and numerous digital books. I do tend to 'stael' ideas from diverse sources as well. I might only take one plot point, monster or chart from any single source.

Just curious, when you say collector, does that mean you put them on the shelf with the hope that they increase in value or do you buy them to read the contents, but not necessarily play them.

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;876854Just curious, when you say collector, does that mean you put them on the shelf with the hope that they increase in value or do you buy them to read the contents, but not necessarily play them.

For me, the interest is in reading them, not investing (which is a terrible idea anyway).

I'd actually LOVE to play everything at least once. But I own hundreds of systems, thousands of supplements, and lately I have had almost no chance to play. Realistically, it's never gonna happen.

Back in the day, I had a pretty extensive RPG book collection and it had almost ALL seen play.

Now, since I became well known as a reviewer, I've got an absurdly large RPG book collection (so much so I've had to get extra shelf-space) and a lot of it hasn't seen play.  Mainly, of course, because a lot of the stuff I get now for free is stuff I wouldn't have been interested in enough to buy in the old days.

I am slowly reducing my collection to only those items that will get regular usage or have huge significant value to me.  More importantly I have set aside a very finite amount of space and I am only keeping what will fit.

Everything else is being given away, sold, or thrown out.

Quote from: Brander;878264snip  thrown out.

what throw out rpg items what kind of person are you ?

#shockandawe

Quote from: kosmos1214;878286what throw out rpg items what kind of person are you ?

#shockandawe

I'm sure I'm evil, pure evil  


Having worked in and around the publishing and printing industry, along with the rise of PDF and ebooks, I no longer sweat throwing away physical books unless I have reason to believe it might somehow be actually rare and/or unavailable electronically.

I'd say 60% of all core rulebooks I own, I have played or run at least once. Supplements are another matter...

With dwindling shelf space at home and a horrific real-to-dollar exchange rate, I'm not likely to support the industry much in the near future. So I expect this percentage to climb.

Quote from: kosmos1214;878286what throw out rpg items what kind of person are you ?

#shockandawe

He's the selfless person who is raising the value of existing collections because he is increasing rarity.

It's like old comic books. Over the decades, millions of mums threw them out. What survives now has value. Newer stuff, lovingly wrapped in collector's plastic, mint as the day they were purchased, not so much.

In the 80s I ran/played everything the group bought at least once. Some was shit and incomprehensible (shadowrun 1e, Rolemaster, some FGU games...) and never got played again but for a while there we were trying everything  on the market for a period of about 6 years.

These days I run a DC heroes Play by post, heavily modded and that's about it, so around 1% of the games I own get used.






Putting it like that, maybe it's time for another purge.

Quote from: Brander;878423I'm sure I'm evil, pure evil  


Having worked in and around the publishing and printing industry, along with the rise of PDF and ebooks, I no longer sweat throwing away physical books unless I have reason to believe it might somehow be actually rare and/or unavailable electronically.

Quote from: saskganesh;878538He's the selfless person who is raising the value of existing collections because he is increasing rarity.

It's like old comic books. Over the decades, millions of mums threw them out. What survives now has value. Newer stuff, lovingly wrapped in collector's plastic, mint as the day they were purchased, not so much.

but but but but but its a book A book all books have value whats next book burning

edit you are making my inner paper master cry