I've been gradually over the last year, or maybe two, been going back and getting hardcopies of D&D 3.5 (mostly, but there's probably a 3e or two product in the list there too) products that I think that I want to have in hardcopy, but which I didn't buy when they were new for whatever reason, and I have to deal with pdfs. Some of them I don't care about, because I simply don't care about that book as much as others (Dungeonscape being the iconic example here, most of the Races of... titles. Of those, I bought Races of Eberron because I liked Eberron when it was new, and Races of Destiny because I found it dirt cheap somewhere. Never got the others in hardcopy, but I doubt that I have any interest in doing so either.) On the other hand, some are ones that I wanted for a long time and I was waiting forever for prices to come down at at least what they were when they were new. Heroes of Horror was one of these; I probably still paid too much for a somewhat beat-up copy.
What are the ones that are on my shortlist of titles to get?
1. More than anything else is Monster Manual IV. This is the only 3.x monster book that I don't have in hard copy, and it's bugged me for years.
2. I jumped very quickly on the non-magical Complete books, and I have hardcopies of, say, Complete Warrior and Complete Adventurer that I bought when they were new. I even have Complete Psionic which is weird, and I bought it relatively new. (I've still never read it, though, lol. It's on my list.) I never got Complete Arcane, Mage or Divine because I was not very interested in D&D-style magic. I guess maybe that's why I liked psionics. It was magic, but different.
3. I've had the DMG2 since forever, but somehow I never bought the PHB2. It's not super cheap, but you can get PODs from DriveThru.
There's a few other books that were more out there late books, like Book of Nine Swords or Magic of Incarnum, etc. that I probably wouldn't buy in hardcopy, because I don't care about that kind of stuff as much, but eh. Maybe.
4. I'm also missing a few Eberron books that, if I could find them in hardcopy in decent shape at a reasonable price, I'd totally pick up, because I dropped out of collecting Eberron after a while, and had to get these later in pdf. City of Stormreach is the one I most want here, and probably the only one that I really regret not picking up in physical copy. It sells for... a lot of money, when you can even find a hardcopy available at all. Slightly less so, but I'd probably get them if I could find them cheap, Dragons of Eberron and Secrets of Xen'drik, so I've got more details on the continents that I'm missing. (I bought Secrets of Sarlona new, so I've always had that one.)
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