Okay, that’s… yeah. Okay. This is some stuff. EARLY HERO SYSTEM (stuff like Justice Inc. and Fantasy Hero), EARLY CHAMPIONS (1st through 3rd edition, and all the old supplements) and HERO MAGAZINES (including, oh, God, a complete run of Adventurer’s Club). …I gotta sit down and think about this. I have, like, a lot of this still. I think. I’m going to need to check the boxes. I don’t think I would have given any of this stuff up. So I have to have a lot of it left.
Yeah.
I gotta think about this.
You don’t actually want this stuff to use it. If you had any interest in using it, you would already be fully aware of whether or not you had it in your possession. You want it because you’ve convinced yourself that it’s shiny, and you want to have it, rather than use it.
Is it worth it, for PDFs of the shiny thing that you will likely never care enough to really do anything with?
This is normally true, but back in the Oughts I sent a LOT of my TTRPG collection to ZigguratCon in Iraq. I don’t regret doing it in the slightest, but I was pretty brutal about what I gave up. 🙂
That’s still a decade and a half ago.
I think it is worth distinguishing between “this is something I *will* use and get value of”, “this is something I am fairly likely to use and get value of” and “this is something that will let me wallow in nostalgia for a day or two before i put it away in a box and basically don’t interact with it in any way for a decade or more.”
I mean… it’s possible that you *do* get some sort of real ongoing satisfaction from owning RPG materials that you will never actually use again, but….
I saw your warning about being weak and I know that I have a reputation for being exactly that kind of weak but we’re both men of the world, mature adults who surely are strong enough to resist…
Wait…they have Mythic Greece? And STEVE PERRIN’S ROBOT WARRIORS!!!??? I…I… NO, No, no, no, no……….
PS: I know, stop calling you Shirley.