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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 1470670" data-attributes="member: 5100">A bit of both, actually.  I spent the entire year of 2003 unemployed.  During that time, I bought the three 3.5 books, but I got them for a total of like $12.  Otherwise, I doubt I would have done so. In January, I started at a new job and my purchases picked up significantly.  In 2004 (or late 2003), I bought:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Complete Warrior</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Draconomicon</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Book of Exalted Deeds</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Gamma World (as a gift for a friend)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Unearthed Arcana</li> </ul>I intend to buy in the near future:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Expanded Psionics Handbook</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Complete Divine</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">d20 Modern</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The new WoD books (you asked about RPG, not d20)</li> </ul>And I'll look at Eberron, but it won't likely interest me. I think that what I've bought so far this year has almost doubled my d20 collection.  Historically, I buy maybe four books a year (I'm excluding the core books, here).  I've bought that many in 2004. I may end up slowing down, though.  At least with regard to d20.  A couple of weeks ago, I made a list of all the feats available to me and their source.  I ended up with a list of roughtly 660 feats.  That's absurd.  It doesn't surprise me that my players never wanted to look anywhere besides the Player's Handbook.  I honestly don't need any more feats.  My only reason for getting new sources is to replace legacy feats with more balanced or interesting ones.  I'm currently in the process of paring down the list available to players to a managible quantity.  I'd imagine that my lists of PrCs, monsters, etc. are similarly bloated and in need of pruning. Right now, what I want are more "soft" rules (soggy crunch?).  These are things like advice on how to deal with good/evil such as is in BoED & BoVD, environmental rules, setting definition (Aria Worlds d20?), etc.   Anyone who could put together a book that would actually help me develop my own planar cosmology, deities, creation myths, etc. would immediately get my money, even if it was a $60 book.  Both DDG and MotP fell short on this because they each amounted to a list of "look at what we came up with" where the "how-to" was an afterthought.  The caveat to this is that I don't want to be limited to someone else's vision of how gods, etc. work -- Primal Order d20 isn't likely to get a second look from me.</blockquote>

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