Do You Sometimes Purchase RPG Books Just To Read (Not For Play Purposes)?

[Nomad4life]

I only run True20 and C&C these days, but I still buy other books that look like they might make interesting conversions.

 

[hafrogman]

Technically, not intentionally. I see the book (usually a system) and say "Hey, that looks like fun." I buy the book. I know my group will never play anything other than D&D, and I'll never actually play the game I just bought. But that doesn't mean I don't WANT to.

 

[Shemeska]

Only if I like the setting/system but aren't able for whatever reason to play it at the moment (like Shadowrun).

However if a book isn't interesting to read on its own, I will not buy it, regardless of anything else.

 

[Giltonio_Santos]

All the time. Though I'm looking forward to start my first Ghostwalk campaign, almost two years after I purchased the book. I'd like to play Castle Falkenstein too; I own the book and love it, but never got a chance to play.

 

[Kesh]

Pretty much my entire collection. I haven't had a regular gaming group for years, so most of my RPG purchases are for pure reading fun.

 

[diaglo]

Pretty much my entire collection.

except for the first three booklets. pretty much the rest i buy just to read. i have used some of them. but mostly i just read them.

i'm currently reading a bunch of stuff as a judge for the ENnies.

 

[Graf]

No...
Never....
I need all those 30 books to play DnD...
They're essential

 

[Odhanan]

Never. Ever.
All my gaming purchases affect my way of running a game and its contents, one way or another. Some aren't directly played or used, but they always influence my games somehow, by giving ideas or striking me as "something I really would not enjoy".

 

[JVisgaitis]

Considering a lot of my purchases are made for reference, I am a resounding yes. About 50% of my bookshelf will never find its way into my game.

 

[ZombieButch]

All the time, although I rationalize by telling myself, "Hmm... I might want to use this for reference sometime!" About 20 or 30 GURPS sourcebooks alone made their way into my collection like that.