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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scourger" data-source="post: 2266851" data-attributes="member: 12328">I let my dollars do the demanding.  That's why I continue to subscribe to Dungeon and why I generally refuse to buy a new supplement or game that is not supported by adventures.  Yes, I have more gaming stuff now than I'll ever use.  That's not the point.  I've discovered that I like reading gaming books, even if I never play that game.  For instance, I recently bought a GURPS WWII book on Finland.  I don't play GURPS, but I am interested in that period of history.  I probably won't keep the book now that I have read it.  I would love to run it as a Savage Worlds (another recent acquisition) mini-campaign, but where's the time and interest, really?  It has to get in a very long line of games I would like to run but for which I have no players interested.  On the other hand, reading a new (or old but new-to-me) game book is great fun without all that extra work of running a game.I've never used all the adventures in Dungeon, and I probably never will.  I recently sold my AD&D stuff, including about 40 issues of Dungeon.  It was hard to part with the collection, but I ran the best adventures (the ones that appealed most to me).  My Shackled City campaign fizzled after the first 2 dungeon crawls.  I may never get around to running the next 9 crawls in that adventure path, but I am interested in trying again with the new adventure path.  For me, a product's "newness" is a big selling point.  I can't really explain it, but there it is.  Games, including adventures, by and large have a short but brilliant shelf life for me.  Luckily there is no shortage of recently-published material to keep me reading, DMing and playing!Now, if I could just do something about my group size and the complexity of d20...</blockquote>

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