Done buying?

[Remathilis]

Pft! I stopped buying before 3.5 came out. And I'm sure there's some grognard out there saying he's never bought anything since they changed the wizard Logos.

LIZARD MAN OR NOTHING!!!!



I haven't bought anything RPG-related recently, due to insecurity in our gaming group (3e or 4e or something else entirely) so holding off on WotC purchases has allowed me to get a few items I've wanted (I pre-order Pathfinder and bought BFRPG's hardback).

I admit, not grabbing the latest WotC book is odd, but strangely liberating...

 

[rounser]

Shares, bonds, and dice. But mostly shares. Can never have too many shares, bonds, or dice.

If things continue like this, my four Rules Cyclopedias may have been the last RPG books I'll ever buy. I put some clear vinyl slip-on covers on them to help them survive being borrowed between sessions, seems to have worked so far.

 

[Voadam]

As a guy who never made the switch over to 4e, I'm finding the fact that product for my preferred edition of the game having essentially stopped is very liberating. Recently, I made a list of books that I wanted but still hadn't got, and it wasn't all that long. And once it's done... I'm DONE! I mean, there's nothing more to buy after that, really, ever again.

It's a little bit like having a car paid off after 60 months of making payments, or however long you set up your loan. Except, well, less dramatic.

I mean, even in the OSR movement, there's so much new stuff getting released all the time, and as exciting as that is in a way, you feel like you want to be on top of things all the time. I'm at a point where there's hardly anything left to buy at all.

For me its like it was for 2e and 1e and basic. I own a lot but there is still a ton I want. More than I expect to ever fully get.

I played 3e/ogl fairly exclusively for the last seven or so years. I was still buying old edition D&D pdfs every month up until WotC pulled them. I think I have over 1000 rpg books on my rpgnow wish list and most of them are OGL.

I have more than enough gaming stuff for the rest of my life, I don't "need" any more. But there are a ton I want and I don't really foresee stopping any time soon barring misfortunes.

Let's see, this month I bought A Game of Thrones d20, Darkstalkers II (OGL), Book of Unremitting Horror (d20 modern), and an old AEG mini module as part of my RPG monthly budget.

Next month maybe the Dragonlance supplement books which have come down in price recently, or the d20 Deadlands books which look great, or wait and see if there is a Christmas in July pdf sale.

Plenty of things I want to choose from for years to come. (Barring things like companies yanking their pdf products from sale).

 

[Festivus]

I am buying Pathfinder RPG but no plans to purchase any of the accessories for it that were recently announced. Other than that no other 3E books will be purchased by me. 4E I am in the market for still... but growing weary of the number of books being produced. I'll be skipping eberron for example.

 

[scourger]

One of the advantages of a closed system is that there is nothing new to buy. For me, it shifted to picking up older books & books for other games, but I'm hoping to curtail that, too.

My affair with d20 is cooled but not over. They got me in the end with more minis purchased that I did not need, but I still buy old boosters if I see them in stores. There is something addictive about the fun of busting open a box to see what I got. I still want to use them for a couple of d20 games that I would like to run. Perhaps one day...

Similarly, I have no interest in the 4e RPG, but the minis do entice me. I just need to stay away from them. It's too hard to put that genie back in the bottle. The same thing happened with Star Wars minis. I finally made a deal with myself that I would buy an entire set of Rebel Storm and then quit, which I did.

Simply put, I have more games than I will ever play. I don't need any more. I certainly need to buy fewer (& fewer). But, some are just fun to read. My space is limited, so I buy, read, trade and sell books.

 

[Dyson Logos]

It's a little bit like having a car paid off after 60 months of making payments, or however long you set up your loan. Except, well, less dramatic.

THIS.

It's why I love playing and running games that are long out of print or that never had expansions even when they were in print.

 

[ggroy]

I'm in the opposite situation.

I took a 20+ year hiatus from the TSR/WotC "treadmill" dating back to the mid-1980's. I largely skipped over the latter 1E AD&D era, 2E AD&D, 3E D&D, and most of 3.5E D&D. Back then I dropped gaming for the most part, and was spending money on all kinds of other things like music cds, booze, gas, weed, etc ... The last gaming book I bought back in those days was Unearthed Arcana for 1E AD&D. I still DM'ed some semi-regular games for a year or so, until I subsequently stopped gaming altogether for a long period of time afterwards.

I started regularly gaming again a few years ago, when 3.5E was starting to lose its luster with the proliferation of numerous supplement books. At first I didn't buy any books and largely borrowed other players' books to make up characters and look up rules. With so many 3.5E books I saw on the FLGS shelves, I was wondering whether it was still worthwhile to jump back into the hobby (after being away for so long). The proliferation of 3.5E WotC books looked kind of ridiculous (ie. corporate greed, etc ...), compared to the 1E AD&D days of only a handful of hardcover books. (Nevermind the 3pp d20 books clogging up the FLGS shelves).

The first set of new rpg books I bought in 20+ years, was the 4E D&D core books. I jumped into a 4E game the next week after, and have been on the 4E WotC splatbook treadmill ever since. I will give WotC credit that the organization and structure of the 4E splatbooks are a lot better and less "arbitrary" compared to similar 3E/3.5E versions. (Though this may change in the future).

When 4E Forgotten Realms was first released, it didn't look like a very exciting setting to me compared to the 3E/3.5E version I saw previously. The 4E FR campaign guide looked quite lackluster. (My first regular 3.5E game was in Forgotten Realms, a few years ago). I ended up picking up a large number of 3E/3.5E Forgotten Realms and Eberron books that I found in the bargain bins at several FLGS in town. (Many were $15 or less a pop).

When I went searching for older 3E/3.5E modules, along with the so-far lackluster 4E modules, I was quite surprised at first at the dearth of WotC modules. (I was accustomed to the early-mid 1980's TSR era with many modules written for 1E AD&D and the D&D box sets). I ended up coming across stuff like Dungeon Crawl Classics and later the Pathfinder AP's, which were a lot higher quality than many of the old TSR 1E AD&D modules I had from 20+ years ago. As a result, I ended up jumping onto the Goodman DCC and Paizo treadmills.

Unlike 20+ years ago, I can afford to indulge in the various treadmills of new supplement books these days. Whether I will continue onto a 5E D&D treadmill or Paizo after a few years, remains to be seen.

 

[Henry]

I'm beginning to get there, myself. I'm planning on checking out the new 4E Eberron books in a store, first, but if there's not much useful to me in them, I don't know if I'm buying them or not. Past that, I still haven't seen much since PHB2 for 4e, and I kind of regret Arcane Power.

I have everything I want for a 3E game, and a 4e game, at that. Unless WotC really wows me with something new and exciting, this year is going to be a very low-WotC quotient year.

 

[ggroy]

I'm beginning to get there, myself. I'm planning on checking out the new 4E Eberron books in a store, first, but if there's not much useful to me in them, I don't know if I'm buying them or not. Past that, I still haven't seen much since PHB2 for 4e, and I kind of regret Arcane Power.

I have everything I want for a 3E game, and a 4e game, at that. Unless WotC really wows me with something new and exciting, this year is going to be a very low-WotC quotient year.

So far the 4E Eberron Player's Guide looks a bit on the lackluster side, from my casual read of it at a bookstore. I'll reserve my final judgment on 4E Eberron until I have read through the 4E campaign guide next month. At minimum, it would have to be at least as impressive as the original 3.5E Eberron campaign guide. (Perhaps many people have been "spoiled" from the 3.5E Eberron books, many of which were of a high quality?)

If 4E Eberron turns out to be lackluster overall in comparison to the 3.5E Eberron books, then I don't know what WotC can do in the future to be very impressive. Besides the psionics stuff planned for Player's Handbook 3, I don't know what other future 4E books would be really impressive. The one outstanding 4E book which WotC hasn't officially mentioned anything about yet so far, would be a faiths and pantheons/deities and demigods book.

 

[johnnype]

I'm not done. I thought I was but then I started looking closely at the Pathfinder material. That's 3.x edition right? My buy list is rather large at the moment.