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Author Topic: RPG Stuff You Buy Without Intending to Play  (Read 3722 times)

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Re: RPG Stuff You Buy Without Intending to Play
« Reply #30 on: February 06, 2023, 10:38:06 AM »
Just saw the summary, looks like an epic campaign.
Djinis would be an interesting option to add, a faction that plays both sides to win (whenever one of them feels invested enough) or whatever.

In setting, the mythical creatures were genocided by one of the Archangels ages ago. Rare examples hide in sort of Limbo space, afraid angels will find them.

Angels and Demons are alpha predators, any Djinn that still survive are too busy hiding under the bed to be a faction.
I'm a middle aged guy with a lot of free time, looking for similar, to form a group for regular gaming. You should be chill, non-woke, and have time on your hands.

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https://www.therpgsite.com/news-and-adverts/looking-to-form-a-group-of-people-with-lots-of-spare-time-for-regular-games/

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Re: RPG Stuff You Buy Without Intending to Play
« Reply #31 on: February 06, 2023, 08:14:54 PM »
Anything LotFP related. I've run 2 modules out of the dozen plus i bought. They are fun to read and challenging to run.
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Re: RPG Stuff You Buy Without Intending to Play
« Reply #32 on: February 06, 2023, 11:23:02 PM »
In a rather wholesome update, I bought many RPG books that my groups at the time weren't interested in:

Exalted 3E (core + GM screen)
Rogue Trader (complete collection + 2 extra core books)
Star Wars Saga Edition (complete collection + 1 extra core book)
Ars Magica 5e (nearly complete collection of ~30 books)

As it turns out, I have run games with my son just about late 2018 to current, using all of these systems, starting around age 11 to currently 14. We get a lot of quality time together this way. Each system has been used for at least 4 or 5 months each.

Would you know that my 14 year old son reads my RPG books about non stop?
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Re: RPG Stuff You Buy Without Intending to Play
« Reply #33 on: February 07, 2023, 06:18:31 PM »
I start from his boots and work my way up. It takes a good half a roll to encompass his jolly round belly alone. Soon, Father Christmas is completely wrapped in clingfilm. It is not quite so good as wrapping Roy but it is enjoyable nonetheless and is certainly a feather in my cap.

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Re: RPG Stuff You Buy Without Intending to Play
« Reply #34 on: February 16, 2023, 09:40:34 AM »
I'll buy cool campaign settings for inspiration or if I really enjoy the location/world they create. That's more for mining for ideas than anything.

I never ran a campaign in Shadow World, but found the writing (and those maps!) fascinating.
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Re: RPG Stuff You Buy Without Intending to Play
« Reply #35 on: February 16, 2023, 05:27:26 PM »
I don't buy anything I don't intend to run.

My problem is everything I buy is in direct competition with the things I run that my players want to play. I have *thousands* of dollars worth of FFG Star Wars books - literally all of them. My players love playing it. But *now* they want to play Savage Worlds Star Wars...

I own all the Free League Aliens books. Which I *really* want to run. But pitching them that campaign in lieu of other stuff they want to play is a high bar. Same with Symbaroum.

So I buy stuff. But I do intend on running it. Yet I end up in the same place as people that "collect" RPG's.

I'm an Incoll. Involuntary Collector.

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Re: RPG Stuff You Buy Without Intending to Play
« Reply #36 on: February 16, 2023, 06:49:17 PM »
So what initially sparked this question was my interest in that massive two volume Glorantha sourcebook that somebody referenced in another thread.  I checked out a ton of reviews and videos about Runequest, but just doesn't seem like I'll enjoy the mechanics.  Yet I'm still intrigued by the lore and I'm thinking I could potentially just use the setting, particularly with C&C which has several codices based on real-world ancient civs that I could draw upon as well for the Bronze Age feel.  So I've recently sold a bunch of other things that I've used but no longer wanted which will give me the funds to buy the Glorantha books.  Essentially a trade, but I'll mull it over a couple more days.

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« Reply #37 on: February 17, 2023, 09:50:48 AM »
I buy HarnWorld books. It's almost a guilty pleasure when I know I'll never run a game on Harn, yet there are so many ideas to rip off....I mean borrow. Borrow. I borrow heavily. If one castle has this or that going for it I'll make my own version for my game.

I have DMed HarnMaster, but the world...it needs my touches.  ;D
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Re: RPG Stuff You Buy Without Intending to Play
« Reply #38 on: February 17, 2023, 07:55:37 PM »
I buy things believing that I will run them. At one time (in the 1990s) I had basically everything I wanted. Then my collection was stolen. Subsequently I did a lot of soul-searching. I resolved to be very realistic as I slowly replaced things; if it was unlikely that I'd ever run something, I didn't buy it.

Decades went by. Gradually my standards loosened. I still make purchases now and then, but I've got an unmanageably large collection again. Even my hard drive is groaning. As I scan the shelves I know I'll never get around to using most of it, and those purchases were a colossal waste of money. I should really get started unloading stuff, but there's inertia again. Would I get rid of my Guide to Glorantha? Probably not yet. But I would get rid of my Tekumel collection. At least I read, and ran, most of that.

And I still might pick up a few odds and ends...it's a sickness.

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« Reply #39 on: February 17, 2023, 10:20:30 PM »
I do tend to but stuff that I hope to play. The regrets, if any, tend to set in later.

I once bought a slew of OD&D adventures just to sell them all off again a few months later. I kick myself now, but it was what I needed to do at that time.

Other than that, I like to do a little research for an overview of the game rules, but first I'll look at a character sheet first so I have something to reference in my mind while I look at stuff like character creation and combat resolution, though I could have been better at reading stuff like time/movement, magic casting, et cet. RPGs are expensive to buy a bunch of core books and settings just to realize that it's not something I'd really enjoy. It's generally how I got some familiarity with OD&D-AD&D-B/X-RC, which is what switched me to the OSR when 5e failed to deliver my ideas of the modularity that I was hoping for (of course their not mind readers, but given what already existed there were clear steps backwards).

Something like Traveller is different. I don't mind buying a bunch of those books, I can dust them off when the right opportunity comes along, and same for any other old-school games in general. Thankfully, the price point of my wish list demanded holding back just long enough to see Mongoose Publishing standing where I don't want to be, so it looks like I will be buying T5 at some point after all. I wonder where all of those complaints about the complexity and bloat of Marc's newest system came from? The game community around a system was never something I worried about for several years, but I was an entirely different person back then.

I don't mind grimdark settings and rules, but even if FATAL is a really playable system, I'd probably avoid having it just for the shock value. I don't care if other people want it, but that's up to them. I'd really need a good reason to have that to mine some ideas for a toned down version where the dial still sits at 11. The gore and banal (statue) nudity being removed from the Diablo 2 remaster is a good case of going too far the opposite way in a world invaded by man-eating demons.

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Nope, it definitely has bad editing.
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Re: RPG Stuff You Buy Without Intending to Play
« Reply #40 on: February 18, 2023, 01:36:00 AM »
I do tend to but stuff that I hope to play. The regrets, if any, tend to set in later.

I once bought a slew of OD&D adventures just to sell them all off again a few months later. I kick myself now, but it was what I needed to do at that time.

Other than that, I like to do a little research for an overview of the game rules, but first I'll look at a character sheet first so I have something to reference in my mind while I look at stuff like character creation and combat resolution, though I could have been better at reading stuff like time/movement, magic casting, et cet. RPGs are expensive to buy a bunch of core books and settings just to realize that it's not something I'd really enjoy. It's generally how I got some familiarity with OD&D-AD&D-B/X-RC, which is what switched me to the OSR when 5e failed to deliver my ideas of the modularity that I was hoping for (of course their not mind readers, but given what already existed there were clear steps backwards).

Something like Traveller is different. I don't mind buying a bunch of those books, I can dust them off when the right opportunity comes along, and same for any other old-school games in general. Thankfully, the price point of my wish list demanded holding back just long enough to see Mongoose Publishing standing where I don't want to be, so it looks like I will be buying T5 at some point after all. I wonder where all of those complaints about the complexity and bloat of Marc's newest system came from? The game community around a system was never something I worried about for several years, but I was an entirely different person back then.

I don't mind grimdark settings and rules, but even if FATAL is a really playable system, I'd probably avoid having it just for the shock value. I don't care if other people want it, but that's up to them. I'd really need a good reason to have that to mine some ideas for a toned down version where the dial still sits at 11. The gore and banal (statue) nudity being removed from the Diablo 2 remaster is a good case of going too far the opposite way in a world invaded by man-eating demons.


It would have been nice, if you could have kept a few of those OD&D modules.  Instead of having a total selloff, you could have told yourself you were being "selective"; to help ease the pain of loss, a little.  But, many of us have been there before.....
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Re: RPG Stuff You Buy Without Intending to Play
« Reply #41 on: February 18, 2023, 08:47:14 AM »
I do tend to but stuff that I hope to play. The regrets, if any, tend to set in later.

Other than that, I like to do a little research for an overview of the game rules, but first I'll look at a character sheet first so I have something to reference in my mind while I look at stuff like character creation and combat resolution, though I could have been better at reading stuff like time/movement, magic casting, et cet. RPGs are expensive to buy a bunch of core books and settings just to realize that it's not something I'd really enjoy. It's generally how I got some familiarity with OD&D-AD&D-B/X-RC, which is what switched me to the OSR when 5e failed to deliver my ideas of the modularity that I was hoping for (of course their not mind readers, but given what already existed there were clear steps backwards).


This has become more or less my default means of deciding if I (and my players) will like a game.  If the character sheet is too long or too busy or seems too complex, it generally means the game will be too crunchy for us.  I don't want to be flipping through a 4-5 page character sheet all the time.  Nor do I want every situation to be decided by a dice roll from a raft of skills.

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Re: RPG Stuff You Buy Without Intending to Play
« Reply #42 on: February 18, 2023, 08:55:47 PM »
I am so stupid...I sold some stuff (finally) and cleaned out my closet a bit, and went around and just used that money to buy some HERO 6 books I WILL NEVER USE. I mean, they are interesting to read I suppose. But yeah.
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Re: RPG Stuff You Buy Without Intending to Play
« Reply #43 on: February 19, 2023, 09:12:01 PM »
Sometimes it's legit (I'll buy this thing but run it with another system) and other times...  it's LOTR.

How many editions of LOTR do I have to buy before I realize I will never run it, in ANY system?

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« Reply #44 on: February 19, 2023, 09:18:03 PM »
Just saw the summary, looks like an epic campaign.
Djinis would be an interesting option to add, a faction that plays both sides to win (whenever one of them feels invested enough) or whatever.

In setting, the mythical creatures were genocided by one of the Archangels ages ago. Rare examples hide in sort of Limbo space, afraid angels will find them.

Angels and Demons are alpha predators, any Djinn that still survive are too busy hiding under the bed to be a faction.

Fair enough, thanks