I cry everyday now as a semi-retired - time rich - 50+ year old that I sold my set of TTRPGs print books in the mid-90s lol. PoDs have helped where available re the copium lol Great video. *Holds my OSRIC h/c vowing to never let it go.* :D
It’s the only Lawful Good “Monster” too. Granted there are Dragons, Kirin and Shedu that are Lawful Good those are more celestial and outsiders than monsters.
Wow. I honestly didn't know. I guess they would have done the whole module in blue text if they could have gotten away with it. forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/why-were-the-maps-in-old-d-d-adventures-blue.282371/
It's been so long since I've seen them I can remember for sure whether I had the Dragonlance Adventures book. I like the setup you're using with the plastic file boxes separating each of your editions and keeping them better protected against dust and sunlight. I miss my books. ☹They're 2000 miles away in storage. When I finally get access back to them, I think I'm going to copy your idea to store my books in those plastic file boxes.
I bought them in 3 packs on sale. I wish I'd done it sooner. An inexpensive investment has kept the pages nice and white and mold-free, unlike some of my very old originals which yellowed and faded over the decades.
This is a great collection. I use to drag all of these to high school every day . We played at lunch time and skipped french class most days to play in the library. It was great fun but as a player and a DM I enjoyed the 2nd edition of the game more. I sadly sold my collection years ago. Now the prices for these books can be insane !
My 2E collection is quite small. I have PHB and DMGs for the original release and the Revised, a Fighters Handbook and the Al Quadim sourcebook. Oh! And the 4 volume Encyclopedia Magica set, which I might pull out for a future fli video-thru. And I support skipping French, only my teacher would have hunted us down. 😆
@@toddlyons our teacher did at one point. Threatened us all with doom. Nothing came of it. She passed us all so.she did not have to see us next year..lol
Thanks so much for sharing your collection and insights. I was held back from playing the game until I was well into adulthood due to the effect the satanic panic had on my parents. I appreciate it when people reminisce over their childhood experiences with D&D and the ttrpg hobby itself. Really fun stuff. Cheers!
re: Red Green Show I moved from the rust belt to Virginia and nobody has heard of Red Green Show down here. Luckily, there's a RGS TH-cam channel that has nearly every skit.
So true. I'm Canadian but was posted in Indiana for 6 years. The Internet was so crucial to keeping me in touch with media that I couldn't get while I lived there.
I spent a lot of time at Boardroom games in both locations. The rotating display that he had for miniatures was great. Nothing in Broad Ripple interesting as Boardroom games anymore.
First time I have seen some of those rule books. I found a nice Dungeoneer's Survival Guide that doesn't look neglected. Great read! I have a Fiend Folio on the way from eBay. It's a crap shoot but I've done ok. My favorite is the Players Handbook I bought for 30 bucks and spent another 30 to restore it. It was trashed. Bought some pens and cloth to touched it up. Just kind of went all over town and found the material I needed to fix it.
I did the same as you and I have all those hardbacks too except my original core have the 1985 covers redone and those are the ones I played with as a boy. May I suggest you add Legends and Lore. It’s a reprint of Deities and Demigods as I’m sure you know, but the cover is cool.
The Game Preserve is on south side. Orange spine books I have all of those had them for 38 years. A multitude of miniatures and modules. My Legends and Lore is the modified Deity and Demigods. Wilderness and Dungeoneers survival guides. Are two of my favorites. Mystara is a big part of the collection, along with Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms. A massive collection but I only got to play for 4 years. Oh yea I live in Indy too.
I love Indy; it still feels like home. I moved back to Canada about 15 years ago, but I've been back every year since... except when the border was closed during COVID. I'll check out The Game Preserve next time I'm in town.
My 1st Ed stuff is in nowhere near as good condition! Although I bought most of it second hand in the early 2000’s. My understanding was the Fiend Folio was a compendium of monsters etc from the Fiend Factory section of Games Workshop’s White Dwarf magazine. I believe they were fan submissions to the magazine!
Interesting. I wonder if its a mix -- and if so, how much? Mostly user-submissions with a few staff creations to round out the numbers? If it's 100% readers, I'm both more forgiving of the dud monsters and more deeply impressed at some of the iconic ones.
@@toddlyons I’ve looked into it. MOST of the creatures were fan submitted to the Fiend Factory articles from White Dwarf (presumably mostly UK based back then), and some of the creatures are from TSR adventures that hadn’t been published in a monster manual.
I think the story behind Deities & Demigods is that Jim Ward absolutely got permission from Chaosium to use their mythos in the book and gave the letter of permission from Chaosium to a TSR lawyer who then apparently misplaced it; then when Chaosium decided to flex their muscles and pull back on what was originally agreed on... I think because they wanted to start capitalizing on those IPs of theirs in a more aggressive way and didn't want TSR to continue using them and being any sort of competition with that. So... the story is that a lost letter by a lawyer caused them to decide to edit the book because they couldn't legally fight it without that letter. lol Gotta love that.
@@Cynidecia This one has a curved top which does not stack well. I recommend the Storex 61415B02C File Box which does stack nicely. However, the one in the video is a Sterilite 18719004.
I cry everyday now as a semi-retired - time rich - 50+ year old that I sold my set of TTRPGs print books in the mid-90s lol. PoDs have helped where available re the copium lol Great video. *Holds my OSRIC h/c vowing to never let it go.* :D
The Flumph was created by Ian McDowall and Douglas Naismith it is also the only Lawful Good creature in the Fiend Folio.
It’s the only Lawful Good “Monster” too. Granted there are Dragons, Kirin and Shedu that are Lawful Good those are more celestial and outsiders than monsters.
The good ole "Won't Photocopy Blue." :/
Wow. I honestly didn't know. I guess they would have done the whole module in blue text if they could have gotten away with it. forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/why-were-the-maps-in-old-d-d-adventures-blue.282371/
It's been so long since I've seen them I can remember for sure whether I had the Dragonlance Adventures book. I like the setup you're using with the plastic file boxes separating each of your editions and keeping them better protected against dust and sunlight. I miss my books. ☹They're 2000 miles away in storage. When I finally get access back to them, I think I'm going to copy your idea to store my books in those plastic file boxes.
I bought them in 3 packs on sale. I wish I'd done it sooner. An inexpensive investment has kept the pages nice and white and mold-free, unlike some of my very old originals which yellowed and faded over the decades.
Brings back memories of all the books I had back in the day. Thanks for sharing this.
My pleasure. I get those same warm feelings, especially from those first 5 books.
This is a great collection. I use to drag all of these to high school every day . We played at lunch time and skipped french class most days to play in the library. It was great fun but as a player and a DM I enjoyed the 2nd edition of the game more. I sadly sold my collection years ago. Now the prices for these books can be insane !
My 2E collection is quite small. I have PHB and DMGs for the original release and the Revised, a Fighters Handbook and the Al Quadim sourcebook. Oh! And the 4 volume Encyclopedia Magica set, which I might pull out for a future fli video-thru. And I support skipping French, only my teacher would have hunted us down. 😆
@@toddlyons our teacher did at one point. Threatened us all with doom. Nothing came of it. She passed us all so.she did not have to see us next year..lol
@@pISSUMTREE It helps if you're too smart for them to justifiably fail, but being irritating can also be in your favour. 😆
Thanks so much for sharing your collection and insights. I was held back from playing the game until I was well into adulthood due to the effect the satanic panic had on my parents. I appreciate it when people reminisce over their childhood experiences with D&D and the ttrpg hobby itself. Really fun stuff. Cheers!
Thank you for taking the time to let me know. I wasn't sure whether to release this one or not. I feared it was too long and boring. 😆
@@toddlyons I really enjoyed it. 😁
re: Red Green Show
I moved from the rust belt to Virginia and nobody has heard of Red Green Show down here. Luckily, there's a RGS TH-cam channel that has nearly every skit.
So true. I'm Canadian but was posted in Indiana for 6 years. The Internet was so crucial to keeping me in touch with media that I couldn't get while I lived there.
I would like to pick up OSRIC at some point.
Stuart is working on a new edition but it'll be 2-3 years before we see a release.
@@d34dbolt20 thanks!
Yep true Canadian the good old duct tape bandaid!
Busted. 😆
Some utterly awesome stuff! Thnx 👊 🤓
I really do have to budget time to read the recent additions to the collection before retirement. :)
I spent a lot of time at Boardroom games in both locations. The rotating display that he had for miniatures was great. Nothing in Broad Ripple interesting as Boardroom games anymore.
Do you know why he closed? Just retirement, or was the market soft for RPG sales? It was a shame, in any case.
First time I have seen some of those rule books. I found a nice Dungeoneer's Survival Guide that doesn't look neglected. Great read! I have a Fiend Folio on the way from eBay. It's a crap shoot but I've done ok. My favorite is the Players Handbook I bought for 30 bucks and spent another 30 to restore it. It was trashed. Bought some pens and cloth to touched it up. Just kind of went all over town and found the material I needed to fix it.
I'd love to see the result. Do you have a link to some pictures?
@@toddlyons I will try and figure out how to do that. I just have this cheap phone. See what I can do. 🤔
I did the same as you and I have all those hardbacks too except my original core have the 1985 covers redone and those are the ones I played with as a boy. May I suggest you add Legends and Lore. It’s a reprint of Deities and Demigods as I’m sure you know, but the cover is cool.
Duct tape, the ladies might not find you handsome, but at least they’ll find you handy. 😂
And now, the Men's Prayer: "I'm a man... but I can change... if I have to... I guess." 😆
The Game Preserve is on south side. Orange spine books I have all of those had them for 38 years. A multitude of miniatures and modules. My Legends and Lore is the modified Deity and Demigods. Wilderness and Dungeoneers survival guides. Are two of my favorites. Mystara is a big part of the collection, along with Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms. A massive collection but I only got to play for 4 years. Oh yea I live in Indy too.
I love Indy; it still feels like home. I moved back to Canada about 15 years ago, but I've been back every year since... except when the border was closed during COVID. I'll check out The Game Preserve next time I'm in town.
@@toddlyons you’ll have to google the location , but it is there .
Yes, absolutely beautiful.
That brought back memories.
I do need to pick up a Trampier PHB cover…
I'm glad I was bitten by the nostalgia bug at the time that the books were out of style.
Truth@@toddlyons
picked up a bunch of the 1st ed hardbook replacements just an hour north of you for $10/each at a shop up here. I got LUCKY
Definitely. They had no idea what they had! Great for you!! 😆
Great collection, think I've got all but two of those (deities and planes) but in addition have got Legends and Lore.
Very nice! Legends and Lore is the revised / re-titled Deities & Demigods, so you have a nearly complete collection.
My 1st Ed stuff is in nowhere near as good condition! Although I bought most of it second hand in the early 2000’s. My understanding was the Fiend Folio was a compendium of monsters etc from the Fiend Factory section of Games Workshop’s White Dwarf magazine. I believe they were fan submissions to the magazine!
Interesting. I wonder if its a mix -- and if so, how much? Mostly user-submissions with a few staff creations to round out the numbers? If it's 100% readers, I'm both more forgiving of the dud monsters and more deeply impressed at some of the iconic ones.
@@toddlyons I’ve looked into it. MOST of the creatures were fan submitted to the Fiend Factory articles from White Dwarf (presumably mostly UK based back then), and some of the creatures are from TSR adventures that hadn’t been published in a monster manual.
@@julianwarren7770 Nice! Thanks for the follow-up report, Julian.
Very Cool, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching, and for taking the time to comment!
....and that's how you do innovative storage. So remember, if they don't find ya handsome, they should atleast find ya handy.
I'm counting on it! 😆
I think the story behind Deities & Demigods is that Jim Ward absolutely got permission from Chaosium to use their mythos in the book and gave the letter of permission from Chaosium to a TSR lawyer who then apparently misplaced it; then when Chaosium decided to flex their muscles and pull back on what was originally agreed on... I think because they wanted to start capitalizing on those IPs of theirs in a more aggressive way and didn't want TSR to continue using them and being any sort of competition with that. So... the story is that a lost letter by a lawyer caused them to decide to edit the book because they couldn't legally fight it without that letter. lol Gotta love that.
Whats the Box called?
It's currently unnamed, but I'm open to suggestions!
@@toddlyons Hehe, what i mean was the box youre using to store it all in. I'd like to consider one myself.
@@Cynidecia This one has a curved top which does not stack well. I recommend the Storex 61415B02C File Box which does stack nicely. However, the one in the video is a Sterilite 18719004.