The number of Star Wars RPG books I own is growing and becoming difficult to take places. What do you use to transport all your stuff?
What do you use to lug your books around?
I let my table handle it and require the minions come to me aboard my pirate galleon....
My book case and dining table...my players come to me.
Let's say, for the sake of discussion, that OP means "when you go elsewhere."
20 minutes ago, themensch said:Let's say, for the sake of discussion, that OP means "when you go elsewhere."
In that case ... I dunno. A forklift?
I left them in the house of the main player, but please, FFG, please... digitalize them! I will purchase all the book again but digitalize them! XD
Well, I have two books that I transport back and forth for our games; AoR & FnD.
And I'm just a player. However, having the two extra books is handy for our group. (Eight players . . .).
So, many moons ago, my wife picked up an office supply tote box. It's plastic, has a carry handle, and the top has a shallow tray which I carry pencils and Vis-A-Vis pens.
So that lets me tote the two aforementioned rule books, a couple of folders for PC's sheets, (I have about 20 pages of data for the campaign including PC, ship(s), inventories, concept art, session synopsis data). I also carry a mini for narrative combat and a dice bag with 5 sets of SW RPG dice.
I also have a spiral bound notebook for taking notes during the session. (I am the party archivist)!
It all barely fits.
So a box like this can be found in most Office Supply stores.
The problem with a lot of those office supply totes, at leas the ones that can fit this many books, is that they're too bulky to fit in a normal car, or they're not waterproof, a must for those of us in the Pacific Northwest. I keep looking....
4 hours ago, Darth Poopdeck said:The number of Star Wars RPG books I own is growing and becoming difficult to take places. What do you use to transport all your stuff?
A large bike courier bag, ironically called "muli" which translates to mule. It can take not all books with me, but about 9 splatbooks and theoretical all 3 cores on top. Though the easier version is not to bother with transporting books at all and just have them in place already. Cheat Sheets or scans can deal with looking up some minor details just fine. Cheers for fair use copyright and similar international laws.
2 hours ago, Josep Maria said:I left them in the house of the main player, but please, FFG, please... digitalize them! I will purchase all the book again but digitalize them! XD
You'll need to convince Electronic Arts and Lucasfilm to modify the terms of the contract between them, then get LFL to modify the contract with FFG.
Under the terms of the contracts, digital distribution crosses over into EA's contract for electronic/video games. FFG cannot legally distribute the game digitally. Currently, there is no incentive at all for EA to alter the terms of their contract.
I typically just carry a GM screen, EotE & F&D core & notpad, pens, the dice, sometimes my laptop for updating characters or for the opening crawl in a tote bag. I try my best not to open any book in the middle of the sessions as it slows the game down considerably but every now and then I do crack it open once.
2 hours ago, themensch said:The problem with a lot of those office supply totes, at leas the ones that can fit this many books, is that they're too bulky to fit in a normal car, or they're not waterproof, a must for those of us in the Pacific Northwest. I keep looking....
40 minutes ago, Edgehawk said:
Haha no. It does meet the criteria I suggested but no.
Though the players currently come to me, I wouldn't need more than the core book anyway, and I've opened it only once or twice in the last 20 sessions. A pen, dice, notepad, some graph paper and/or maybe a whiteboard, the adversary decks, and my iPad (for the occasional visual) are all I've needed.
It helps that the character sheets are generated with OggDude's Amazing App, so everything the players need is at their fingertips.
So maybe the first question is: what do you need all the books for?
16 minutes ago, whafrog said:Though the players currently come to me, I wouldn't need more than the core book anyway, and I've opened it only once or twice in the last 20 sessions. A pen, dice, notepad, some graph paper and/or maybe a whiteboard, the adversary decks, and my iPad (for the occasional visual) are all I've needed.
It helps that the character sheets are generated with OggDude's Amazing App, so everything the players need is at their fingertips.
So maybe the first question is: what do you need all the books for?
For the actual details of the Talents, etc that Oggy can't legally include?
27 minutes ago, Nytwyng said:For the actual details of the Talents, etc that Oggy can't legally include?
Type my friend, type ^-^
16 minutes ago, SEApocalypse said:Type my friend, type ^-^
Oh, I have. But where'd that data come from? ?
14 minutes ago, Nytwyng said:Oh, I have. But where'd that data come from? ?
Books my friends, books, once you have a corebook or two in your custom data folder, those new specs are usually added rather quickly.
1 hour ago, whafrog said:So maybe the first question is: what do you need all the books for?
That's what I struggle with. I hate to be unprepared though, but now that you mention it, I crack a book pretty infrequently these days. I like the idea of decreeing "if you use a piece of gear, bring the book it's from so I don't have to" but then that rules out people using fantastic online tools to really spice up their gear lists. When I was hosting people at my house, I had all the books right there, an equally-sized pile of Essential Guides, artwork, cross-sections, etc (this was just before AoR Beta so it wasn't that impressive a stack.) But I also had a giant projection screen and a projector, both of which are unwieldy to use at the FLGS. So what do I really need all the books for? Excellent point.
25 minutes ago, SEApocalypse said:Books my friends, books, once you have a corebook or two in your custom data folder, those new specs are usually added rather quickly.
Sure. But the question was, why one needs the books to begin with (when using OggDude's software). The answer is to (legally) have access to the actual data.
18 minutes ago, Nytwyng said:Sure. But the question was, why one needs the books to begin with (when using OggDude's software). The answer is to (legally) have access to the actual data.
That was not the question. The question is what do you need the books for when playing away from home.
Even buying the books and creating PDFs for personal use sounds like something which should be legal in most countries. Disturbing those pdfs would be the illegal part.
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Back when I played games in-person, I used one of these: Ativa Mobil-IT Rolling Briefcase (14”) .
Now that I no longer have any games locally here in Austin, and I only get to play SWRPG online, the books are mostly stacked randomly around my home office chair.
If I were to resume playing in-person here in Austin, and I had a van with a loading ramp, I might think about getting one of these:
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Although, something like this would also work: Rolling bookshelf with clamp
Or, maybe something like this:
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