Quote from: flyingmice;429442I'm still cool. I buy anything that piques my interest.

-clash

Victims of the Corvus Disorder UNITE !!!

My last full-price purchase was "Starblazer Adventures" about 10 days ago from my FLGS. I had literally a copier-paper box worth of game books stacked on the dresser in my bedroom. I boxed them all up, and now only SBA sits there. I intend to keep it that way for the forseeable future.

So yes, I have far too much stuff, and yes, I'll be buying far less of it in the future. The only exception I might make is for .pdf files, ESPECIALLY if there is an e-reader that'll let me use them, because then that'd be perfect and non-cluttering.

Quote from: RPGPundit;429473Nope, I don't get this. If anything, for me its quite the opposite.  I find myself regretting, and sometime re-purchasing, stuff I'd gotten rid of years ago.  And I'm now quite determined, having figured out that sooner or later I always find SOMETHING that makes a book worth hanging onto, that I will not get rid of any gaming stuff I should acquire from now on.  The only review material I ever gave away, in spite of quite a lot of it being stuff that right now I can't imagine ever having a direct use for, was the jenga-rules dread game, which certainly wasn't an RPG, they even said so themselves.

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Just to be clear, I'm not going to actually get rid of anything except DVDs. I'm just moving my fiction collection to a digital format. My game books and comics will remain as they are. I just have a ridiculous amount of paper back fiction.  As for gaming books, to be clear, "no new purchases" is more of an ideal I'm striving for than it is an absolute imperative.

Quote from: Danger;429533Throwing my lot in with the "old, tired, bald, broke, married, kids," demographic I kinda go with Geezer's take on things.

I have money, hair and a 28" waist.

Quote from: Aos;429548I have money, hair and a 28" waist.

:mad:

Goddam thin, rich people with hair.

If it makes you feel better, the hair is mine, but the money is my wife's.

Looks like you've got your wife's waist too.

Nah, she's even smaller than I am.

Anyone who truly wishes to unload some stuff, please contact me and let me know what it is you wish to unload, and I might be able to give some things a good home.

I put a lot of stock in not getting attached to physical things, but I've never had a major purge of my stuff since I've been playing. I've had a surprising and severe uptick in my bills since a medical procedure, but I doubt that will result in a complete moratorium on my game spending. I have a hoard of supplies--graph paper and whatnot--and I could use the room in my house. In fact, I do so much gaming at the flgs, I doubt I really need this game room in the back of my house at all. Yet I'm not taking it down.
I guess, even as I acknowledge a better way to do things, I will revel in my hypocrisy.

I'm thinking about a purge one day, though.

I have gotten rid of a lot of stuff that I wasn't going to use in play, having a good used bookstore in town helps. I pretty much just buy things that really interest me that I will use, or I buy the book because I know I can resell it on eBay or Amazon for profit - thus keeping my hobby self supporting.

I have found that a lot of the 3.x books that I was thinking about selling have become useful again as I've taken material to simplify for Labyrinth Lord or OSRIC games from them. I have trouble getting people interested in a casual game of 3.x or Pathfinder, but I can get them interested in Basic D&D or Labyrinth Lord. Simple seems the way to go for me.

I am almost at the opposite end of what the OP describes. Whereas I used to limit myself to a few key RPGs and spend tons on modules, supps, etc. Now I don't really buy the extras and just keep looking for new RPGs to try.

However I don't really buy that much stuff these days. Now I tend to be more selective and buy games because I know I am going to at least get a one shot out of them.

Also, I only really buy books. I don't play computer games at all, and based on what I've heard from friends who do, this is probably saving me a great deal of money. And I don't own a video game console or anything like that. The only computer stuff I do buy, is for work. So the occasional RPG product isn't that big a deal for me.

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;429709Whereas I used to limit myself to a few key RPGs and spend tons on modules, supps, etc.

This is what I did back in the day.

Besides a hardcover book or box set once every year or so (ie. Unearthed Arcana, Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, etc ...), I only really picked up modules for 1E AD&D.  There wasn't much else in terms of supplements for 1E AD&D.

If I didn't stop playing D&D before 2E AD&D was released, I probably would have became a "compulsive completionist" for most of the 2E era settings and supplement books (ie. the Complete * Handbooks, etc ...).

Quote from: jeff37923;429708I have gotten rid of a lot of stuff that I wasn't going to use in play, having a good used bookstore in town helps. I pretty much just buy things that really interest me that I will use, or I buy the book because I know I can resell it on eBay or Amazon for profit - thus keeping my hobby self supporting.

I have found that a lot of the 3.x books that I was thinking about selling have become useful again as I've taken material to simplify for Labyrinth Lord or OSRIC games from them. I have trouble getting people interested in a casual game of 3.x or Pathfinder, but I can get them interested in Basic D&D or Labyrinth Lord. Simple seems the way to go for me.

McKay rocks. Just got one up here in Manassas VA, which was a massively pleasant surprise.

Quote from: Aos;429407I'm still open to buy prose fiction and comics, however, in the former case I am only interested in stuff that goes on my kindle, really.

So what you are saying is that role-playing publishers need to publish more metaplot fiction masquerading as a role-playing supplement like the did in the 1990s and produce it for the Kindle, if they want to sell you anything, right?

I just hit 40, and I'm at the same place as the guy whom the OP quoted: nothing new for me, thanks.

I might pick up a copy of Strands of Fate, to have something generic in one book. I'm considering getting BASH UE when it gets reissued in April, because of the positive reviews it's gotten here and elsewhere, and because supers is my favorite genre.

Other than that, forget it. The group doesn't get together often enough, most of the others don't want to buy books or run games at all, and I'm tired of learning new rules. That's a big part of why the two games I mentioned above are only on the 'maybe' list-- as light as the systems sound, I just don't have any interest in innovative mechanics anymore.

I'll run Blood of Heroes or Toon, and I'll play anything somebody else wants to sit behind the screen for. The rest of my collection went into a library bin last year, and I can barely remember the titles today. Stuff I bought and never played; stuff I bought and never read.