I started reading Forgotten Realms in middle school. I was already playing Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Edition or AD&D for a few years already, had a subscription to Dragon Magazine, and most of our campaigns were in either the Forgotten Realms or Dragonlance settings. Learning about the characters in depth that were already talked about in the modules, was fantasy coming to life for me. As the books were released, I would buy them new for the $3-$5 price from Books-a-million near my house. Oh, a new Drizzt book!? Had to grab it. It got to the point where several were coming out per month and it was hard to keep up with the buying. I realized a long time ago I would not be able to afford hard covers and special editions, and all the modules from the gaming store. If I saw something at a thrift store or paperback exchange, I would just scoop it up, and quickly run home to read it. That I know of, I'm missing some of the later stuff when I stopped buying new, and some rare stuff that I'm working on getting now that everything is in one place.
Please enjoy these pictures of the bookcase directly to the left of my desk as of this writing. Not pictured are the tons of hard covers in the garage storage I'll get to finding some day, as well as all the D&D books based on Forgotten Realms across varying editions.
- 250 books-ish
- I don't sell them unless I have doubles that are not edition or cover differences
- My wife sold some of the special edition stuff without me knowing, but only two books
- Need like 80 more to complete it
