Hello, and whats the point?

Hi, my name is Morgan, and I buy a lot of role-playing game books, starting pretty much since I've had a disposable income and continuing even when I didn't. For a while, I was obsessive about collecting whole lines to complete parts of my collection. I've gotten past that, but I still buy what could be described as an excessive number of books. Currently, they fill a dozen boxes and most of a closet, along with a few more scattered boxes - and that isn't including the ones scattered around that I'm in the midst of reading or otherwise fooling around with. This is my hobby - collecting and playing RPGs.

I do get some use from parts of my collection - I've run quite a few of them, and stolen ideas from the rest, but a slim majority have seen no more use than a read-through and being organized with the rest of whatever game line they come from. I've long since sold off the true cruft (especially, most of my third party/SRD games) and most of what I have left I either find very cool or, in a few cases, bear some sort of nostalgia value or may someday be worth some money. That last part is probably wishful thinking on my part, but collectors are entitled, I think, to be a little bit attached to that which they've collected. Sure, I may never make use of Castle Falkenstein, but I still remember stumbling across it in a used bookstore on the Oregon coast and snapping up one of the earliest examples of steampunk gaming. For that, it's earned its place on my shelf.

Recently, I've placed a bit of a moratorium on further purchases of RPG's. This came after I snagged a setting book for Anima: Beyond Fantasy, which was full color, well written, and more money than I ought to have spent on something I'll very likely never make serious use of. My purpose with this blog is to turn inward a bit - to go hunting through the boxes and the shelves for those cool old games I snapped up on a whim and never gave a proper look. It's to rediscover the games that grabbed my imagination so hard I chased them down an almost never-ending line of supplements. It's to share my love of role-playing games.