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<blockquote data-quote="TheAlkaizer" data-source="post: 8637032" data-attributes="member: 7024893">I won't lie, buying games became my way of compensating for not being able to play them during the first two years of the pandemic, so I kind of broke my own rules. But here's my list, do not that some of these categories overlap.<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">There's games I intend to run. My bookcase is full of them. I have the luck of working with other people that have similar interest and so access to a large pool of players, it's very easy to find players.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">There's games which books are fun to read, and I might buy the books to read the flavor, the lore, look at the art. I buy them for the same reason you'd buy an art book, they're beautiful objects.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">There's games that I don't intend to play, but out of professional curiosity I want to read through to stay up to date, be exposed to new mechanics and just have fun theorizing about its mechanics.</li>
</ul>If a product does not fit one of these categories, I tend not to buy it. Where I fail at being responsible with my disposable income is in splatbooks and sourcebooks. I tend to buy additional books for systems I haven't ran yet. I bought literally product for Forbidden Lands because I've been excited to run it for months, but I ended up not being too crazy about the system. Yeah, that feels bad.Also, I don't really buy products just to support someone or a certain genre of games. It's rarely been a factor in my purchase decisions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheAlkaizer, post: 8637032, member: 7024893"] I won't lie, buying games became my way of compensating for not being able to play them during the first two years of the pandemic, so I kind of broke my own rules. But here's my list, do not that some of these categories overlap. [LIST] [*]There's games I intend to run. My bookcase is full of them. I have the luck of working with other people that have similar interest and so access to a large pool of players, it's very easy to find players. [*]There's games which books are fun to read, and I might buy the books to read the flavor, the lore, look at the art. I buy them for the same reason you'd buy an art book, they're beautiful objects. [*]There's games that I don't intend to play, but out of professional curiosity I want to read through to stay up to date, be exposed to new mechanics and just have fun theorizing about its mechanics. [/LIST] If a product does not fit one of these categories, I tend not to buy it. Where I fail at being responsible with my disposable income is in splatbooks and sourcebooks. I tend to buy additional books for systems I haven't ran yet. I bought literally product for Forbidden Lands because I've been excited to run it for months, but I ended up not being too crazy about the system. Yeah, that feels bad. Also, I don't really buy products just to support someone or a certain genre of games. It's rarely been a factor in my purchase decisions. [/QUOTE]

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