The amount of crap you have…

…Expands to fill the space available. Looking at my game shelves, I see this is true. Every so often it gets to the point where I need to cull the collection a little bit and that’s where I’m at right now. I’ve got a few things up on eBay for dirt cheap and I don’t care so much if I only get a few bucks for them – I just need the shelf space. Even with the stuff I’m selling gone, my game shelf is still packed solid.

Actually, what you see in this photo above is just my “main” game bookcase, which is full of RPGs. I’ve got all my boardgames and a few more RPG boxed sets in the closet on another shelf, and another smaller bookshelf in the living room for game spillover (and my carefully selected manga collection…)

Thing is, I’ve got the collection pretty well trimmed of the fat I don’t want to keep. So…the only solution is to get a new bookshelf and fill it with more games!! Woohoo!

What? Er, no dear, not buying anything new… (right now).

Inventory

I spent some time today updating my RPG library. I have a library app called Delicious Library that uses the camera on my laptop as a barcode scanner, so I can scan in the barcode on the back of a book and it automatically enters all the data in. Very handy (except when the game is really old, OOP, or simply doesn’t have a barcode). Anyway, I got them all in there and I’ve got 360 roleplaying books, and that number also does not include any game PDFs I have (which would boost the number quite a bit).

Finally, since Delicious Library fills all the data from Amazon, it pulls in some interesting stuff. For example, the “current price”.

My copy of “Bunnies & Burrows” is apparently worth $395…

Godlike – The Good War – Campaign Book

I’ve been meaning to put this up for a while and have finally gotten around to it. These are the files for the campaign book I made up and had printed (from Lulu) for my group after we finished our Godlike campaign two years ago. They got the actual dead tree version, hardcover and all, but I wanted to make the files available eventually.

I had a lot of fun making it. It’s a compilation of all the story hour posts I did for the campaign on RPG.net (the photos of the miniatures tables we used can be found in that thread), with all the maps and extras included as well.

Looking at it now, I see a lot of typos and such (which does kind of bug me – it should, I’m an editor after all). I suppose it could use a revision. I might go back and do that sometime. But for now, here it is.

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What I’m reading

I got a bunch of Amazon gift certificates for Christmas. After some deliberation, I bought a few books and some games (of course). These are the non-game books I got:

Brothers of the Snake – Finished this a few days ago. Pretty good story about Space Marines by Dan Abnett, the best of the stable of Black Library authors. When I get to the Deathwatch part of the 40 campaign, I’ll be looking at this book again, and recommending it to all the players.

Rynn’s World – Another 40K Space Marine novel. Haven’t gotten into it yet. INterestingly, the author of this one currently lives in Tokyo. Wouldn’t surprise me if he was a member of JIGG.

Victorious – Last in the Lost Fleet series of mil sci-fi novels by Jack Campbell. Good, BSG-like space opera. I’ve enjoyed this series and it stands out against a lot of the junk on the shelves these days.

With the Old Breed – This is non-fiction. US Marine Eugene Sledge’s account of his service in the PTO during WW2. I also got the HBO Miniseries The Pacific for Christmas too and I’ve been meaning to read this book for a while now.

American Prometheus – This one is a biography of Robert Oppenheimer. It won a Pulitzer and I’ve been wanting to read something about him for a while now. Pretty dense but very interesting. One quick observation – Oppenheimer is like the character Sheldon on Big Bang Theory!

And my wife got me a couple other books. One big fat history of the Pacific War by John Toland and another interesting account of the USS Bunker Hill and the kamikaze pilot who took it out.

So I’ll be busy with these for a while.