Hypothetical Scenario

jeff37923 · January 07, 2011, 04:01:07 PM

Quote from: Werekoala;431195Does a CD-ROM count? If so, my Traveller CD (or all three if possible).

All on my laptop, hidden in the car....

(along with 2300AD....)

SgtSpaceWizard · January 07, 2011, 04:13:47 PM

I save my Mongoose Traveller book. It should be easy to guilt my players into playing a campaign of it considering I lost everything else, hehe.

Alternately, I burn with it all; cackling and screaming. Then I start looking for gamers in hell.

jeff37923 · January 07, 2011, 04:17:38 PM

Quote from: SgtSpaceWizard;431287I save my Mongoose Traveller book. It should be easy to guilt my players into playing a campaign of it considering I lost everything else, hehe.

Alternately, I burn with it all; cackling and screaming. Then I start looking for gamers in hell.

When I get to Hell, I'll look you up.

RPGPundit · January 08, 2011, 01:18:28 AM

For me, it'd probably be my Amber book. Its probably not the most irreplaceable book in my collection, but sentimental reasons would demand it. Also, its a first printing.

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Tetsubo · January 08, 2011, 07:02:28 AM

I would grab by external hard drive. I love my books. But they could all be replaced eventually. With my hard drive I could access a whole lot of content immediately.

Now, losing my RPG collection would break my heart. I've lived through an apartment fire. The only things I grabbed on the way out were shoes and my phone. Luckily I didn't lose my life, my cats nor my library.

GameDaddy · January 08, 2011, 09:11:12 AM

Hypothetically speaking, If I have enough time to grab one book, I have enough time to grab an armload off my shelf soooo...

My Classic Traveller and D&D White Booksets get saved, +1 for boxed sets, as well as the Castles & Crusades hardbacks, Fudge, Metamorphosis Alpha, Gamma World, Spycraft, Aces and Eights, and anything else that conveniently gets in the way...

My entire collection is insured anyway, and the minis are probably worth far more than the books.

3rik · January 08, 2011, 09:14:07 AM

Quote from: HombreLoboDomesticado;431198This is a tough one. With little time to make a decision I'd probably grab my Call of Cthulhu corebook.

Quote from: RPGPundit;431363For me, it'd probably be my Amber book. Its probably not the most irreplaceable book in my collection, but sentimental reasons would demand it.(...)

I could easily replace my Cthulhu corebook as well, and this is therefore not exactly the most rational choice, but I assume I'd be in a hurry and didn't give it any thought in advance. Sentimental reasons would prevail.

SgtSpaceWizard · January 08, 2011, 06:34:49 PM

Quote from: jeff37923;431288When I get to Hell, I'll look you up.

See you there!

If you think of it, bring some fireproof dice.

RPGPundit · January 09, 2011, 10:06:34 AM

Quote from: HombreLoboDomesticado;431395I could easily replace my Cthulhu corebook as well, and this is therefore not exactly the most rational choice, but I assume I'd be in a hurry and didn't give it any thought in advance. Sentimental reasons would prevail.

Yeah, well, that's obvious.

But frankly, I would never pick an "external hard drive" as the thing to save over a book. I don't care that the harddrive has 300 pirated PDF files of all the greatest RPGs ever written, they're still not books.

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3rik · January 10, 2011, 06:29:13 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;431582Yeah, well, that's obvious.

But frankly, I would never pick an "external hard drive" as the thing to save over a book. I don't care that the harddrive has 300 pirated PDF files of all the greatest RPGs ever written, they're still not books.

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Agreed, though people posting that should learn to read: the question was about picking ONE RPG BOOK, not hard drives, CD-roms or even several books.

danbuter · January 10, 2011, 06:48:00 AM

My Castle Zagyg box set.

IceBlinkLuck · January 11, 2011, 05:34:01 AM

I would probably grab my Grenadier copy of Swordbearer. For such a tiny box it holds a huge amount of gaming potential.

The other option is I bring the extra large bag of Cheetos to hell with me, since there's a game starting up.

Imperator · January 11, 2011, 06:13:33 AM

Quote from: D-503;431255Call of Cthulhu all the way baby.

The rest can burn.

And only because AH RQ is more than one book, so answering in the spirit of the question, I'd go CoC too.

Answering honestly, an USB pendrive with all my collection in PDF.

Werekoala · January 12, 2011, 12:34:26 PM

Well if we have to stick to a book, I'd take Starblazer Adventures, I reckon.

Professort Zoot · January 12, 2011, 04:19:00 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;431010Your house/living place is on fire, and you can escape but take with you only ONE RPG book from your collection.
What would it be?

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Is this meant to determine which game I value most? Or does it merely determine which game I consider to be the hardest to replace/have highest monetary value? 'Cause I'm thinking a lot of peoples favorite games are probably easy to replace, while some very valuable (relatively) games are unplayable pieces of crap.