Re: How big is yours?
Good Lord. A touch over two gigs of GURPS and a daunting eighty gigs of gaming material (some boardgame stuff in there, but a good 90% must be RPGs).
I am surrounded by ~500 linear feet of shelves of gaming stuff. Weird to think I considered myself over it when I was eighteen or so and sold pretty much all of it at a yard sale. It's all come back and it has brought friends.
Almost all I have in the way of RPGs from before the Great Purge were a couple of things that still interested me -- the relatively new Call of Cthulhu, as I as still running a campaign of that, my original AD&D Fiend Folio (Cthulhu and Melnibonean mythoi intact), but I chose to sell off a 1st edition DM Guide that Gary Gygax had autographed for me a year or two earlier.
One unusual survivor: I had lent my original Runequest softcover to my pal Larry, and forgotten I had done so; he in turn forgot he had it. He discovered it in a box after a move and returned to me somewhat sheepishly, as he had borrowed it when we were about seventeen and we were about fifty when it came back.
I felt like a WWI general looking over the horrendous casualty lists from sending the company over the top yesterday when he looks up to see a corporal who had snuck away to canoodle with a farmer's daughter an hour before the raid was announced. He should be charged for being AWOL, but just seeing him alive overrides any negative consequences.
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