The Campaign Builder's Guild

I'm not in my room ATM but here are the RPG books I can think of off the top of my head. I have a lot of 3rd party RPG books (that I can't Remember the names of), a lot of Dragon/Dungeon Magazines, all of the Warhammer 40k Codices, a few Warhammer Fantasy Army Books, some Warmachine Books as well as a metric ton of "regular" non-fiction and fiction books... I'd have a looong list if I ever wrote it out  ;) .

D&D 3.5
Book of Exalted Deeds
City of Stormreach
Complete Adventurer
Complete Arcane
Complete Divine
Complete Mage
Complete Scoundrel
Complete Warrior
Dragon Compendium
Dragonlance Campaign Setting
Dungeon Master's Guide
Eberron Campaign Setting
Enemies & Allies
Faiths of Eberron
Five Nations
Forge of War
Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting
Heroes of Horror
Living Greyhawk Gazetter
Magic Item Compendium
Minatures Handbook
Monster Manual I
Monster Manual II
Monsters of Faerun
Mysteries of the Moon Sea
Oriental Adventures
Player's handbook
Player's Handbook II
Races of Stone
Races of the Wild
Red hand of Doom
Secrets of Sarlona
Silver Marches
Tome of Magic
Unapproachable East
Uneartehd Arcana

D&D 4E
Adventurer's Vault 2
Arcane Power
Dark Sun Campaign Setting
Dark Sun Creature Catalog
Dungeon Master's Guide
Eberron Campaign Setting
Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting
Heroes of the Fallen Lands
Martial Power II
Monster Manual I
Monster Manual II
Monster Manual III
Player's Handbook I
Player's Handbook II
Player's Handbook III

Other Systems
Dragon Age: Dark Fantasy
Exalted 2nd Edition
Legend of the 5 Rings: Rokugan 3rd Edition
Rogue Trader

Star Wars Saga
Knights of the old Republic
Scum & Villainy
Star Wars Role Playing Game: Saga Edition
Threats to the galaxy

Quote from: sparkletwistOk, I have a question. Please forgive the tone but I can't imagine I'm the only one thinking this: Did anyone actually read this thread? Like, does anyone actually care about a big list of books that someone else owns? I know I didn't more than barely skim half of the big lists that you all had posted, and I don't really see the point of going through the effort to post a list if everyone cares about my list as little as I care about everyone else's...

Sorry if this comes across as extraordinarily bitchy, I am seriously just asking.

Even if they didn't, I don't see that as invalidating the thread - I enjoyed making the list, for whatever slightly bizarre reason, so... yeah :)

Quote from: LlumSpeaking of, Kindling I notice you're a big fan of The Dillinger Escape Plan. Do you know the band Between the Buried & Me? or the Devin Townsend Project?

I do know Between the Buried and Me, not a big fan. They supported the DEP the first time I saw them and seriously underwhelmed me.
And Devin Townsend is the fella from Strapping Young Lad, isn't he? I'm aware he has other projects, but I only really know his work with Strapping Young Lad, and even then I only have a passing familiarity.
I have a strange sort of relationship with heavy music in that when it's done well I find it incredibly exciting, but when it's done... well, not even badly, even if it's just done mediocre-ly, I can find very little to like about it. So, for example, Meshuggah big yes, but Trivium or Avenged Sevenfold... ohhhh nooooooo...

Quote from: sparkletwistOk, I have a question. Please forgive the tone but I can't imagine I'm the only one thinking this: Did anyone actually read this thread? Like, does anyone actually care about a big list of books that someone else owns? I know I didn't more than barely skim half of the big lists that you all had posted, and I don't really see the point of going through the effort to post a list if everyone cares about my list as little as I care about everyone else's...

Sorry if this comes across as extraordinarily bitchy, I am seriously just asking.

I read this post and have at least glanced at a few others.  I am something of a compulsive lister anyway, so it was kind of amusing for me to do what I've done so far.

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Alternity Player's Handbook
Alternity Gamemaster's Guide

How is Alternity as a game?  At the time I didn't buy in because TSR wasn't doing the one in-house system, like Palladium, and for some reason I felt that not being immediately able to crossover D&D and Alternity would be a disadvantage.

Since then, I've become intrigued by orphaned, abandoned, and dead too early RPG systems in general.

Quote from: FREAKINAWESOMEHORSEChaos, James Gleick

Got it.

Quote from: FREAKINAWESOMEHORSEMort, Terry Pratchett
Reaper Man
Soul Music

Got them.

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Thief of Time

Don't actually got them, but listened to on audio borrowed from the library.  So, you like the Death and Susan ones?  Me preference is either the Witches or the Watch.

Instead of Posting a long list of books, how about I just post an image of one of my book shelves? Please excuse the messiness, I'm cleaning out my closet and a lot of the excess from there is winding up on the book shelf.

EDIT: Link isn't working

Quote from: LlumSpeaking of, Kindling I notice you're a big fan of The Dillinger Escape Plan. Do you know the band Between the Buried & Me? or the Devin Townsend Project?

Ah ic ic. I seen them live and it was one of the best shows I've ever seen. This was in 2010 mind.

Quote from: KindlingI have a strange sort of relationship with heavy music in that when it's done well I find it incredibly exciting, but when it's done... well, not even badly, even if it's just done mediocre-ly, I can find very little to like about it. So, for example, Meshuggah big yes, but Trivium or Avenged Sevenfold... ohhhh nooooooo...

Ya I can understand that, I'm very picky with my metal. And Avenged Sevenfold >_<

Quote from: Elemental_ElfInstead of Posting a long list of books, how about I just post an image of one of my book shelves? Please excuse the messiness, I'm cleaning out my closet and a lot of the excess from there is winding up on the book shelf.

EDIT: Link isn't working

Ok I finally made the stupid links work correctly! [spoiler]  [/spoiler]

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Quote from: sparkletwistOk, I have a question. Please forgive the tone but I can't imagine I'm the only one thinking this: Did anyone actually read this thread? Like, does anyone actually care about a big list of books that someone else owns? I know I didn't more than barely skim half of the big lists that you all had posted, and I don't really see the point of going through the effort to post a list if everyone cares about my list as little as I care about everyone else's...

Sorry if this comes across as extraordinarily bitchy, I am seriously just asking.

I read this post and have at least glanced at a few others.  I am something of a compulsive lister anyway, so it was kind of amusing for me to do what I've done so far.

Quote from: FREAKINAWESOMEHORSEBooks
Alternity Player's Handbook
Alternity Gamemaster's Guide

How is Alternity as a game?  At the time I didn't buy in because TSR wasn't doing the one in-house system, like Palladium, and for some reason I felt that not being immediately able to crossover D&D and Alternity would be a disadvantage.

Since then, I've become intrigued by orphaned, abandoned, and dead too early RPG systems in general.

Quote from: FREAKINAWESOMEHORSEChaos, James Gleick

Got it.

Quote from: FREAKINAWESOMEHORSEMort, Terry Pratchett
Reaper Man
Soul Music

Got them.

Quote from: FREAKINAWESOMEHORSEHogfather
Thief of Time

Don't actually got them, but listened to on audio borrowed from the library.  So, you like the Death and Susan ones?  Me preference is either the Witches or the Watch.

I love Alternity. The system is very modular and I'll probably use it for all of my settings should I get to run them (there's also a Starcraft Alternity game still on hold that I'm going to run with it). It is, in my opinion, the ideal implementation of gritty 2e/3e mechanics (mostly 3e other than the fact that rolling lower is better).

Yeah, I'm also a huge fan of the Death and Susan books. Death, the Death of Rats, and Quoth the Raven make me laugh no matter how many times I read the books, and Susan is also a very amusing character - she's probably my favorite female character from any medium.

I haven't had a chance to read much of any of the other books yet, but I'm a big fan of the wizards as well, so I might start there. I do also keep hearing good things about the Watch.

I would recommend the watch over the Wizards.

Thief of Time is a good watch one after you've read Night Watch or another watch story first.

Small Gods is probably one of the 3 best of the series. (It is unconnected to any others).

I never enjoyed the witches' series very much; Rincewind would be my second least favorite; but I enjoy the others quite a lot.

Samuel Vimes has got to be my favorite discworld character followed by Lord Vetinari

I don't have anything really like a book shelf at the moment and I can't list everything. I'm moving soon, though, and I may come back to this at that time.

Quote from: NomadicSamuel Vimes has got to be my favorite discworld character followed by Lord Vetinari

Agreed, although Esme Weatherwax might be up there with Vetinari for me. Vimes is still the daddy though :)

Weatherwax Uber Alles

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Quote from: Elemental_ElfInstead of Posting a long list of books, how about I just post an image of one of my book shelves? Please excuse the messiness, I'm cleaning out my closet and a lot of the excess from there is winding up on the book shelf.

EDIT: Link isn't working

Ok I finally made the stupid links work correctly! [spoiler]  [/spoiler]

Not a bad collection, there. I notice you have one of those Christopher Hart art books, though. Have you ever seen any of his other books?

Quote from: SDragonNot a bad collection, there. I notice you have one of those Christopher Hart art books, though. Have you ever seen any of his other books?

His book is pretty good if you want to draw Anime-influenced American art but it doesn't quite explain how to draw, what I consider, in a true anime style. I've thumbed through his other works before, and they're similar. He does teach you how to draw really well and I like his books, even if they aren't quite the style I'd shoot for.

What sparkletwist says makes sense but we're an odd bunch. Personally, I read all of the thread that was posted while I was at my computer. I have skimmed a bit of it that I have seen from my phone, though.

I read this thread long before I posted at all so it slipped my mind but now that someone else mentioned it, I did take particular notice of Kindling's taste in music. While they're not my favorite bands or sounds, as a musician I have a solid repect for the work of Meshuggah and, even more, the Dillinger Escape Plan. I actually saw those guys on Warped Tour this last year and know a couple of guys (that play in Screaming Mechanical Brain) that are friends with them and went backstage.