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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9613244" data-attributes="member: 6796661">Got back into TTRPGs in 2014.  I keep seeing new editions and starter sets for games I've bought and never got around to playing. There is a weird pull to want to buy the new version, just in case I do play them. I've not succumb to this as I've gotten over my earlier impulse buying of Kickstarter material and now that I play online, I don't buy many physical books. If prices are low enough, I might buy a PDF of a core book, just to check it out, but I don't buy VTT versions of games until I have a plan (as in first session on the calendar) to run them. But there is still that pull. For those of you who do find themselves buying new versions of games they own older editions of, but have never played, is it mainly because you like collecting games or is it because you still want to run the game and figure you might as well get the new rules?What triggered this post was reading another post about a new Lord of the Rings starter set. But the biggest temptation was the 2023 release of Paranoia: Perfect Edition, by Mongoose games. I bought nearly everything they published for the Red Clearance edition (I backed the Kickstarter for the Ultraviolet edition, which was an early release of the Red Clearance edition), but only ran one game session.  I was very attempted to at least get the new rule book as it seemed to streamline and improve upon the mechanics and brought back a lot of classic lore. But I'm in the minority of fans who likes the card mechanics of the Red Clearance edition and I was happy enough with the lore. Still, if I get more time and decide to run some games, I might get a PDF version of the new edition to see if there are any rule changes I want to incorporate into my Red Clearance game. Cubicle 7 releasing the Old World TTRPG is going to be tempting, but I think I can resist, so long as I don't make the mistake of paging through a book at a convention or FLGS. How about you?</blockquote>

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