How do you carry/store your books?

[Apophis775]

Wondering this, as we play D&D at someone elses house, and I'm always carting books around.

Whats an easy way to store/move them that i might not have thought of?


Also, don't even say .pdfs, as there is only one computer allowed on the table during play, and that is the resident rules lawyer who uses it to plead his cases.

[slaydemons]

I personally use one of those reuasble shopping bags but have you tried a backpack if you have like 10 books you can fit it in one spot then papers in another spot and pencils in a tiny spot

[Katana_Geldar]

I carry the absolute minimum in my Belkar bag to gaming. Along with minis and my tile sets.

[dsmiles]

I'd love to say that I have a bag of holding, but I just use my laptop bag to carry my books, dice, and minis around.

[Katana_Geldar]

SSGOW bag is good though, and very very tough!

[dsmiles]

SSGOW bag is good though, and very very tough!

But then you don't get to say, "I have a bag of holding."

[Katana_Geldar]

A few people in my group do have the bag of holding though.

[Bibliomancer]

I usually manage to cram 10-12 into a backpack and put a pencilcase on top.

The advantage of this is that my character sheet and notes get pressed in the process, which lengthens the amount of time for which they are readable.

[Lurkmoar]

In my lap top carry case. I usually don't bring my lap top to the gaming table unless asked to.

I usually do have to carry a ring binder outside of the carry case though.

[Apophis775]

I have about 16 books i usually bring (typically, people create characters from diff books and usually cross-book with equipment or things).

I've been using an old gamestop system carrying bag to carry them, but it's near the point where thats too difficult, and I've got 3 more books on the way (I usually save some monies and buy a few books every 4-5 months).

Someone said bag of holding... Is that this one? About how many books does that hold?

[Andion Isurand]

Hard plastic milk crates.

[Gadora]

I use my backpack. For an old character, that had spells from all over the place, I stuck a bunch of books in a box, and lugged that over.

[rayne_dragon]

In a Handy Haversack.

Now that I have the obligitory joke out of the way, I usually just carry mine in a regular backpack/laptop bag. I try to minimize the number of books I need by copying relevant information onto loose paper/printouts that I can tuck away in a PHB/any other book that I definitely need.

You could also see about keeping your books at the house you play at if it is consistent, but I don't recommend it. I lost my 3rd edition books and a box of dice that way.

[Aemoh87]

{{scrubbed}}

[valadil]

Book shelf. When I'm not gaming at my place I grab whatever books are relevant to my character and whatever books the GM might need. I've never had more books than backpack space for any given game. I suppose if I needed to carry more or if I wanted to keep game books tucked away when not in use, I'd store them in milk crates and carry those around.

[big teej]

hold on I'm gonna try and dig up a link to my thread that asked the exact same question

tada!

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=179216

hope those answers are helpful

and if anybody is curious I am now a proud proud PROUD owner of a bag of holding, worth every penny

[Dr.Epic]

Computer holds 'em.

[Ozreth]

Geez some of you carry too many books around!

1. I think you could get by at 5 tops. And a backpack or a bag of any sort works fine for that, no?

2. You could switch to pathfinder and use one book : p

3. Tell your rules lawyer to get the Rules Compendium and dump the laptop : )

[Kobold Esq]

{{scrubbed}}

Computer holds 'em.

This. I have PDFs of every book that I own, specifically so I don't HAVE to lug them anywhere.

[RTGoodman]

When I was playing/DMing several 3.x games in the Long, Long Ago, I was pretty much the only one with books. So I carted around Core, all the MMs, PHB2, all the Races and Completes, and any others people might need in two big duffel bags (along with minis, etc.). With my current game I just carry the PHB or Heroes of the Fall Lands and Rules Compendium and make players have any others that might be necessary.

[korifugi]

We have compiled several books into a single reference guide which reduces the number of books we need, then I only carry the basic books I need, and have a few extras such as the MIC in PDF format on my smartphone.

[Thurbane]

As the main source of books in my group, and current DM, I usually lug around several books in a milk create. Pretty heavy, but quite effective (I have my dice and stuff in there as well).

[Jair Barik]

Carry the books that you need. If the other players want to take things out of a dozen books then they can bring those books themselves.

[Longcat]

Assemble all your books on a private cloud server, or in case of 4e, use the official one provided by WotC.

[Curmudgeon]

I've got a dedicated bookcase in my dining room, and mostly avoid the carry issue by having my gaming group meet at my house. (My seat at the table is on the bookcase side, naturally.) For gaming conventions I use both a large backpack and a second pack with wheels and a pull-out handle, but I still have to make copies of relevant pages from some sources where I only need small parts of a book. It's just not possible to carry a whole bookcase of gaming books around, or even just my D&D 3.5 books, and I'd rather stay under 100 lbs. of books for any particular game.

[EccentricCircle]

for games in which I am playing I will only be bringing a few books, usually no more than five or so for 3.5, or less for 4e. so a backpack is fine.

if I'm DM'ing its a very different matter. I have a small suitcase whcih can hold about twelve books, tiles and boards, my dice and counters. I sometimes have to use a backpack as well but prefer not to.

of course my favourite situation is to play at my house so that I don't have to transport stuff at all. books live on a bookcase in my room, and i'm in the process of buying an old fashioned treasure chest to keep all the props and tiles in under the kitchen table so that I don't have to lug that stuff up and down the stairs !

[Tyndmyr]

Well, we play at my house. I own all the books. I don't mean "all the books we play with", I mean "all the books ever printed for every game we play". It's a coupla bookcases worth.

They're organized by game, and within games like 3.5, there's a separate section for each setting. Obviously related books go next to each other, like the completes. Occasionally, certain books have duplicates. Mainly core books, since they are frequently needed by multiple people.

[big teej]

Well, we play at my house. I own all the books. I don't mean "all the books we play with", I mean "all the books ever printed for every game we play". It's a coupla bookcases worth. They're organized by game, and within games like 3.5, there's a separate section for each setting. Obviously related books go next to each other, like the completes. Occasionally, certain books have duplicates. Mainly core books, since they are frequently needed by multiple people.

my classmates just looked at me really funny because I just turned green with envy...



eeeeeeennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnvyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy y!!!!!!

[Frozen_Feet]

My opinion is that if you have to carry more than 500 pages of text with you to one session, you are doing something wrong. All my RPG books are small enough to fit in my backpack, and there's plenty of room for a folder with character sheets and maps, a pencil case, colouring pens and rulers.

At home, I store them in a shelf, between my manga tankobons, old school books and *censored*.

[Talya]

Also, don't even say .pdfs, as there is only one computer allowed on the table during play, and that is the resident rules lawyer who uses it to plead his cases.

This rules out my answer. I avoid paper like the plague.