Do you live in the future?

[Kanegrundar]

I'm always looking to the future releases, but I'm also looking for other products that may have slipped past me. For instance, I've been on the fence as to buying the Warcraft RPG core book. I finally got a chance to look it over as I was picking up my copies of D20 Future and Races of Stone. At the same time, I ended up buying Al'Kabor's Arcana for Everquest...

Kane

 

[cybertalus]

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!

Very rarely. I'm eagerly anticipating the release of the new Basic Set in the hopes that I can get my 8 year-old nephew started on D&D. Aside from that the last two releases I was eager for were the FRCS (which exceeded even my very high expectations), and Song and Silence (mostly for the Thief-Acrobat, which completely disappointed me). In fact generally I dread new releases because they're usually one more thing that everyone else is going ga-ga over, while I'm sitting over in a corner wondering what all the fuss is about.

I do know where you're coming from though. For most of the 2E years (up until the Player's Option line came out), there was usually at least one release a month from TSR that I was really looking forward to, that I just couldn't wait to get my hands on. Back then I'd say I definitely was into the hobby more for buying and reading new products than I was for actually using them in a game. And totally living in the future in the sense that at least half the enjoyment I got out of any product was in the anticipation of getting it.

These days I buy a lot fewer books, but I get a lot more use out of the ones I do buy. Somehow though I don't seem to be buying any fewer dice.

 

[MerricB]

Good responses from everyone - thanks!

Of course, my ongoing game isn't considering the future of the books so much - I use material from (almost) every era of the game to enhance it. (We just had a XPH Soulknife join the group, so that's basically present material, and this game has run the Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh, the Veiled Society and Feast of Goblyns, using past material).

Cheers!

 

[Krieg]

Game of Thrones
The Black Company
Starship Troopers
Castles & Crusades
Fall of Man
Moridin's Space Western campaign
Tekumel
Blackmoor
Dark Inheritance (for Spycraft)
CityState of the Invincible Overlord
Dark Legacies
Advanced Players Manual
Delta Green Hardback w/D20 stats
Slavelords of Cydonia
2320 AD


Yeah, I spend way too much time looking ahead!

 

[mhacdebhandia]

In a sense I'm living in the future, but the future I'm living in right now is from the past.

While there are many things on the Wizards release schedule that I'm looking forward to - and I'm "the guy" in my university gaming group who keeps track of forthcoming D&D products - right now I'm combing through several years' worth of Dragon Magazine from the collection of a friend who, coincidentally, stopped collecting them almost precisely at the same time I started (around #310).

Right now I'm transcribing an article on racial martial arts styles from Dragon #303 - which is quite a while ago now, but more importantly the reason I'm interested in the article is because I bought Oriental Adventures, an even older product, within the past month. I also picked up Ghostwalk and the Fiend Folio, and might eventually get hold of a copy of the Monster Manual II.

So about half of my recent purchases have been older, even "outdated" products - I recently bought a few Planescape PDFs, too. Now, part of the reason I borrowed my friend's Dragon collection is to complete the prestige class list in my signature, but I'm making good use of other past material as well.

That said, I've posted about fifteen threads to my gaming society's webforum about upcoming RPG releases within the last two months. So I think about and look forward to the future, too.

 

[jester47]

I sort of do, but with a goal and reason. On books- Most of what I want outside the WotC released stuff is either SRD or PDF. The only books I think I will have to pick up for my Mechwarrior conversion is Ultrmodern Firearms and Blood and Space (depending). I plan on getting the Judges Guild Wilderlands stuff from Necromancer. Blackmoor (maybe). The book of the undead is on the list, along with The Complete Adventurer. All this is barring that I look at it and decide I dont like it. Maybe MM3. Dunno. DEfinately on the list are PDF versions of old NG modules. The thing is I am very close to having the game I want to play. So once I have the book of the undead, Complete advenurer, and a decent future modern arsenal, I am done buying rules. Its all setting from there on out. I will continue to buy FR books as they come out until I have the entire north, the Western Heartlands and a book on Waterdeep. Maybe Cormyr, Sembia, Dalelands, and Moonsea. Depending on how many books they come in. Once this is covered, no more FR. Then its just modules. NPC esssentials. Magical Medieval Society. The collection of 101 collections, Grimtooths traps from NG. RA revised. And, Orcus willing, Tome I in 3.5. ASide from a few other odds and ends I am forgetting, thats it. After that, its just modules and a dungeon subscription until 4.0. And I will not be converting.

Aaron.