Do you live in the future?

[MerricB]

I've just realised, I live in the future.

No, I don't mean I physically live in the future, but I mean that when I'm considering D&D, I'm continually looking ahead to what products are coming out next month or next year...

I don't spend my time looking back so much at the products that were released yesterday or last year...

Do you live in the future?

Cheers!

 

[Sebastian Ashputtle]

I've just realised, I live in the future.

No, I don't mean I physically live in the future, but I mean that when I'm considering D&D, I'm continually looking ahead to what products are coming out next month or next year...

I don't spend my time looking back so much at the products that were released yesterday or last year...

Do you live in the future?

Cheers!

Nope. I have my 3.0 collection, complete with tons of 2e Planescape and Ravenloft material. I have my D20 Modern/Call of Cthulhu/D20 Future axis. I'm done for at least a year.

RPGing is wonderful, but there are many other things in my life that I focus on. My wife, my two-year-old daughter, my career (I'm a writer and a teacher), my faith. I have a ton of books (non-RPG) that I can't wait to get to once I get some free time.

So no, much too much else to do than eagerly comb WotC's release schedule (one exception: I was at my FLGS the day D20 Future showed up. )

One thing to guard against: don't let *buying* RPGs become your hobby. Playing them is much better. I only mention this because I've known many people, and I've been one myself, who have fallen into that consumer-frenzy trap. Version 3.$ and the miniatures are only the most crass examples of WotC milking the eagerness of its fans to throw away their hard-earned money.

 

[Dogbrain]

Buy? Game books? I used to do that, years and years ago.

 

[Wombat]

Future ... Past ... Moment

All three at once

Thought not necessarily for rpg material.

I have been keeping generalized track of the progress towards 5th ed Ars Magica, but anything else I find is by happenstance, especially since the changeover to 3.5.

But I find this affects me, as a gamer, in a different way -- in many ways my characters live in the Future because they are not interested in what they have already gotten as a PC, but what bennies, advances, and feats they will get at the next level. This is a severe mental tweak at times.

To counter this, in my next campaign, I am only printing out the level progress charts for classes through 5th level to begin with; only after they have passed that point will they see the next 5 levels, etc. And since all the classes are going to be altered, at least they won't "work towards 20th level" mentally as soon as they create their characters, but keep a more realistic (and achievable) goal in mind.

 

[Galethorn]

Future? No, don't have that book yet...

Ohhhhhh! you mean it in a general sense. In that case, yes. However, I live in a state of constantly thinking about what will be happening next in my campaign, rather than what books are coming out. You see, I don't get many books.

 

[Dark Jezter]

I like to fondly remember the past, enjoy the present, and look forward to the future.

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

Nope. I have my 3.0 collection, complete with tons of 2e Planescape and Ravenloft material. I have my D20 Modern/Call of Cthulhu/D20 Future axis. I'm done for at least a year.

RPGing is wonderful, but there are many other things in my life that I focus on. My wife, my two-year-old daughter, my career (I'm a writer and a teacher), my faith. I have a ton of books (non-RPG) that I can't wait to get to once I get some free time.

So no, much too much else to do than eagerly comb WotC's release schedule (one exception: I was at my FLGS the day D20 Future showed up. )

One thing to guard against: don't let *buying* RPGs become your hobby. Playing them is much better. I only mention this because I've known many people, and I've been one myself, who have fallen into that consumer-frenzy trap. Version 3.$ and the miniatures are only the most crass examples of WotC milking the eagerness of its fans to throw away their hard-earned money.

Wow,

Great post. Thanks for the perspective. Something really resonated there for me...

I have recently given up collecting comic books, a hobby of over 2 decades. I think I have been buying them out of pure habit, as I have been getting less and less enjoyment from actually reading them for some time now. The collector in me always came up with some lame excuse to continue for completist reasons.

Think I'll cut back on my RPG book purchases too... I AM guilty of "living in the future" for much of my RPGing. Too much stuff - not enough being used, let alone being fully read.

 

[pogre]

I kind of wish I was one of those future folks who was living for the next release. I don't think I have bought anything as soon as it came out with the exception of the new 3.5 rules, and only because they incorporated many of my standing house rules.

New stuff just does not get me that pumped up these days.

 

[diaglo]

i live in the future for the campaign. constantly looking ahead to what will happen next.

as far as books... i wait until they are reasonably priced.

patience is a virtue seldom practiced.

 

[JoeBlank]

Ever since Song & Silence, I wait for a few reviews and monitor the ENW chatter rather than buying a book the day it comes out.

So I live in the recent past. Rather than looking forward to some book that has not yet come out, I am usually becoming interested in some book that came out a couple of months ago that has everyone talking.

For example, next on my list to buy: Eberron and Grim Tales.