You could take only 3 books to your game sessions, which 3?

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You could take only 3 books to your game sessions, which 3?

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Just curious. I have to had limit it to 3 before due to backpack space or brief case space plus other gaming junk like dice, notes, paper, character sheets, etc. I don't have to limit it to just three now, but there was a time due to totting by walking there or bus ride or sometimes I just didn't feel like lugging dozen or more books to the session. They do get heavy after a while.:-D

My 3 now would be:

1. GMG
2. RUE, 2nd printing
3. Book the campaign is set in or closest to it.

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A lot would depend on the game being played, or rather, the primary setting.

For Horror/Supernatural games in a modern setting, I would use Beyond the Supernatural 2nd Ed, Mystic China, and perhaps Nightbane: Through The Glass Darkly.

For super-heroic adventure, I would use Heroes Unlimited, Powers Unlimited one, and Rifts: Book of Magic.

For Rifts, I would go with the Rifts: UE, and either Rifts GMG and Book of Magic, or Rifts GMG, and the Worldbook most relevant at the time.
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  1. PFRPG 1E
  2. Old Ones 1E
  3. Adventures on the High Seas or Yin Sloth Jungles 1E
  1. Beyond the Supernatural 1E
  2. Beyond the Supernatural 2E
  3. Between the Shadows
  1. RECON
  2. Advanced RECON
  1. TMNT & Other Strangeness
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Heroes
Rifts Utlimate
Ninjas and Superspies

Those could pretty much cover anything my players might want to play. As of late, I don't even use the books anymore at the table. Have most of what I like memorized or bastardized.
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hmm....

RUE
WB5: Triax and the NGR
WB18: mystic russia
and my laptop with all my homebrew stuff for northern most europe...
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RUE
GMG
BOM
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SkyeFyre wrote:RUE
GMG
BOM


ditto

with Rifts Conversion Book 1 as a close 4th
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I'd have to base this off of what we're playing, and what I have that no one else can bring or we need more of.
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Rifts Original
Rifts Rue..errr RUE
Conversion book 1st printing (with all the Robotech and OTHER game company / system conversion notes before the lawyers came in)
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What makes it particularly challenging for me is that so many of my 'needs' are specialized to several books, and I almost the entire Megaversal system.

I need N&SS for martial arts (and Mystic China to a lesser extent).
I need HUII and PUI for most of the powers.
I need the Rifts GMG for a lot of stuff, and the same with Book of Magic.
But, the rules for creating new magic are not in BoM: I need Through The Glass Darkly.
There are things for Psychic characters that aren't in Rifts: they're in Beyond the Supernatural II.

And so on.
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It would really depend. I've been working on a alternate Rifts Earth setting, so all I really need is that notebook. The three books I'd take to support it though would be Monster's & Animals, the GMG and probably D-Bee's.
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BTS 1
BTS 2
Mystic China

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Core book (setting dependant)
RGMG
BoM



but really for me just 3 isnt enough...
to many addtional books "needed"
like TtGD, N&SS, Etc...
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Injundon wrote:That's easy.

RUE
GMG
Source book one revised.


But we're playing Robotech. :P
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I never carry books 8-)
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I carry a lot of books with me just in case... I usually never open one up. Even when players are shopping and want that Wilk's or... that Naruni pistol... most of the time I can just tell them what's available, what the stats are, and that's that.
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Natasha wrote:I never carry books 8-)


Okay, what books do your minions carry for you?
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Sentinel wrote:
Natasha wrote:I never carry books 8-)


Okay, what books do your minions carry for you?

Ah. Well. I only GM'd so far a RECON campaign and PFRPG campaign. After many years as a player, I decided to give GMing a go.

So my minions carry:

1. RECON
2. Advanced RECON

1. Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game
2. The Old Ones
3. Monsters & Animals

The alternative is everyone comes to me. :)
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Natasha wrote:
Sentinel wrote:
Natasha wrote:I never carry books 8-)


Okay, what books do your minions carry for you?

Ah. Well. I only GM'd so far a RECON campaign and PFRPG campaign. After many years as a player, I decided to give GMing a go.

So my minions carry:

1. RECON
2. Advanced RECON

1. Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game
2. The Old Ones
3. Monsters & Animals

The alternative is everyone comes to me. :)


Ah, well, I don't know where you are, So I can't go there.
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If we're playing standard Palladium:
PFRPG second edition
Eastern Territories
Monsters and animals

For Rifts:
Rifts ultimate
GMG
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If I were running Palladium Fantasy, I would either bring:

PFRPG main book
Adventures on the High Seas
Library of Bletherad

or

PFRPG
Dragons & Gods
Mount Nimro.
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I just can't carry only 3 books. Standard packadge includes:

- RUE
- GMG
- BOM
- SB1
- D-Bee of NA
- Any WB/SB related to the adventure

I have a huge bag 8-) :oops: :lol:
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Book of Magic, GM's Guide and the Cybernetics source book (I forget it's real name. Has all the normal data, the rest can be winged if need be.
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1~Rifts Ultimate Edition. everyone should have a mainbook with them.

2~Canada. No one single book is asked for more at our table, unless someone actually brought a copy. When it is there, no one wants to see it, and thus gameplay can commence uninterupted.

3~Source Book One. This is because I love the bionics and cybernetics options in rifts.
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