How do you read your TTRPG books?

[Mercador]

Hello! I'm curious how do you read your TTRPG books. I noticed that every time I purchase a new book, I'm starting reading it like a novel. By the time I hit the 5-10% mark, I got bored and I'm looking for something else to purchase.

 

[Badvoc]

Depends on the book.

I'll occasionally buy books for new systems, or a new version of a system I like, just to read for pleasure. If it's not something I'm planning to run, I tend to randomly leaf through looking for ideas I can use, reading sections of fluff and checking out the art.

For books that support a game I'm running, I'll skim read the full thing then go back and re-read the bits I'm likely to use soon in more detail. For adventures that means getting the general plot straight in my head first, and then making sure I have enough detail for the next session.

I don't have enough time to read all the WOTC books cover to cover, let along third party DnD stuff and other systems I have.

 

[ccs]

Depends.
If it's a new system? Then sequentially.
If it's for a system I'm already proficient in? Then I'll start by reading interesting sections first, then go back for a sequential read.

 

[atanakar]

I read my TTRPG books randomly. I can't read them cover to cover. But I finish all of them. Currently, I'm reading Modern AGE Threefold setting, Modern AGE Companion and The Expense.

 

[SilentJay]

Interesting features, then randomly. Like above, I can't seem to ever read them cover to cover (most of the time, there have been a couple of exceptions.)

 

[Fenris-77]

I tend to read the mechanics first, whether its a new system or a splat book for a system I already have. For a new system I'll skim the action economy, then read character gen, then go back through actions and into the GM section. Once I have a solid handle on the rules I'll go through the fluff and other mechanics.

 

[prabe]

I generally read them in order, but I also tend to skip whatever introduction to TRPGs in general there is. I've been playing long enough that I don't need another POV on that, thanxmuch.

 

[dragoner]

Usually to what point interests me, character generation, spacecraft (if it has it); relevant sections.

 

[Mercador]

From your answers, I understand something; I don't do games anymore so I'm more looking for fluff books than system books but I still try to read them cover to cover and that's my error.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Look at the pictures first