On 4 December 2016 at 09:51, Andrew Long <xxxxxx@me.com> wrote:

> On 4 Dec 2016, at 09:46, Andrew Long <xxxxxx@me.com> wrote:
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>> On 4 Dec 2016, at 08:28, Timothy Collinson <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> Sorry to hear some of your books have gone missing. I'd be very wary of loaning some of mine these days! (DGP or the Japanese stuff for example).
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> Thanks to all of you who have contributed to this thread. I shall be looking out my copies (I *always* try to have a spare!) so will check ithem out later when I get back from the Toon.

There should have been an extra phrase in there about it being bac enough when you “lend” something that *can* be easily be easily replaced. I’ve *never* let myself get into that position with RPG material - it’s so transient (and to be truthful, I don’t have any friends who’d wnat to borrow that kind of stuff :(
Hence the comment about spares.

Regards, Andy

yes, fortunately, until now, I've never had friends or a gaming group who were interested in borrowing so it's not really been an issue.

The one colleague at work who has expressed an interest in seeing the old stuff is a) a librarian and b) aware they're quite precious, so she's very careful with them over a lunchbreak.

I like the idea of spares but given what Traveller material I own takes two Billy bookcases I think my wife might draw the line. I feel guilty enough about the 'waste' of having two MgT1 Core rulebooks (mainly because I discovered there was a matte paper version and a later glossy paper version) but I resolve that by keeping one at work for the lunchtime sessions. (Though I think I have two copies of Knightfall as well - one has a creased cover and one is slightly water damaged so I can't decide which one to 'keep'! S'pose one day I ought to look for a more perfect copy... <sigh>)

oh good grief I'm sad, sad, sad...