Well, I had to say "Other" for a host of reasons. While it's true I play D&D3e (not 3.5) and OD&D just about every week, I buy very little stuff for those games. I also play in a LOTR game, a MegaTraveller game, and a Star Wars game. I am in the process of preparing a DragonQuest game and a GURPS game. Now, as for buying, I mostly buy for my GURPS collection, my Classic Traveller game, and a lot of non-RPG games. I might buy a few more D&D3.0 books, but I have no desire to buy the 3.5 stuff. A lot of the games I buy I probably won't play, but I like the material for them.
How exclusively do you buy/play D&D
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johnsemlak
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I primarily play, buy, eat, drink, and sleep D&D. Occasionally I get adventurious and look at Star Wars d20 stuff.
Ranes
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In the past I bought the best of everything. One of the perks of working part-time in a games shop when you're still at school, at the turn of the eighties, is being able to compensate for profoundly limited financial resources, by being allowed to read, say, all the D&D modules, at work. Customers want you to be knowledgeable about the products.
I was never unhappy with my choice of purchase and all sorts of games were bought and used.
That peak petered out completely by the nineties, due to lifestyle, personal taste and work. CRPGS were a different matter. They weren't nearly as satisfying but they had the famous virtue of being infinitely more convenient. That trend peaked in 2001 with my first 3e encounter.
I told myself, "Core rules only! I do not need anything else!" But I could not resist. I have since bought lots of D&D, some d20 and the classic Traveller reprints, because I'd been looking for replacement little black books. But I've got it under control now.
D&D is the only rpg I have the time and inclination to play. I enjoy the luxury of the best version of it (cue...), so I spend money on it.
I think, after such a long post, I should vote now. And stop.
In the past I bought the best of everything. One of the perks of working part-time in a games shop when you're still at school, at the turn of the eighties, is being able to compensate for profoundly limited financial resources, by being allowed to read, say, all the D&D modules, at work. Customers want you to be knowledgeable about the products.
I was never unhappy with my choice of purchase and all sorts of games were bought and used.That peak petered out completely by the nineties, due to lifestyle, personal taste and work. CRPGS were a different matter. They weren't nearly as satisfying but they had the famous virtue of being infinitely more convenient. That trend peaked in 2001 with my first 3e encounter.
I told myself, "Core rules only! I do not need anything else!" But I could not resist. I have since bought lots of D&D, some d20 and the classic Traveller reprints, because I'd been looking for replacement little black books. But I've got it under control now.
D&D is the only rpg I have the time and inclination to play. I enjoy the luxury of the best version of it (cue...), so I spend money on it.I think, after such a long post, I should vote now. And stop.
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Thimble the Squit
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Most of my stuff is D&D but I play pretty much everything.
Excepts Rifts. Or Synnibar. I am appalled to admit that I own both. I will never play them. I could never bring myself to inflict them on anyone else so I will never sell them. I may burn them but that offends my gamer sensibilities.
As it is, I'm in three games weekly. (Woo hoo! And I still have a girlfriend!) I'm playing Ars Magica and D&D 3.5 and currently running WEG Star Wars. I also run three very irregular D&D 3.5 campaigns and a similarly infrequent RuneQuest III game. The group I'm running SW for have also played Bushido, MERP and GURPS: Celtic Myth, with various GMs; we alternate gaming systems in between lots of boardgaming and such.
I have to say, D&D has always been far more product-intensive than any other system; I have maybe £100 worth of RuneQuest stuff, compared to probably over £1000 of D&D books (in various editions), yet I'd say RQ is my preferred game.
I grew up with D&D, I've been faithful to it and it's rewarded me by getting better and better with every incarnation. Except the Players Options books. I may burn them too.
Excepts Rifts. Or Synnibar. I am appalled to admit that I own both. I will never play them. I could never bring myself to inflict them on anyone else so I will never sell them. I may burn them but that offends my gamer sensibilities.
As it is, I'm in three games weekly. (Woo hoo! And I still have a girlfriend!) I'm playing Ars Magica and D&D 3.5 and currently running WEG Star Wars. I also run three very irregular D&D 3.5 campaigns and a similarly infrequent RuneQuest III game. The group I'm running SW for have also played Bushido, MERP and GURPS: Celtic Myth, with various GMs; we alternate gaming systems in between lots of boardgaming and such.
I have to say, D&D has always been far more product-intensive than any other system; I have maybe £100 worth of RuneQuest stuff, compared to probably over £1000 of D&D books (in various editions), yet I'd say RQ is my preferred game.
I grew up with D&D, I've been faithful to it and it's rewarded me by getting better and better with every incarnation. Except the Players Options books. I may burn them too.
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These days 98% of what I buy is for D&D. I have picked up a few other d20 titles, such as Traveller and Mutants & Masterminds, but aside from the basic books I haven't purchased anything more for those lines.
Back in the days of no financial responsibilities, I would buy everything for a particular system I had interest in. There was a time I would show up to games with a hockey bag stuffed with every Shadowrun supplement ever released.
I think it's a completionist thing, where I try to get everything available. Hell, I even bought Enemies & Allies the day it hit the shelves. Not a proud moment.
Back in the days of no financial responsibilities, I would buy everything for a particular system I had interest in. There was a time I would show up to games with a hockey bag stuffed with every Shadowrun supplement ever released.
I think it's a completionist thing, where I try to get everything available. Hell, I even bought Enemies & Allies the day it hit the shelves. Not a proud moment.
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VorpalBunny
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My group likes to play other stuff than D&D (Shadowrun, Spycraft, and Lord of the Rings are our current favorites), but our longest campaigns are spent playing D&D, and it's the game we always go back to when we're burned out on other stuff.
The bulk of my RPG collection is AD&D/D&D stuff, only because that's what I've been playing the longest. However I do buy other games/systems regularly - especially if it's a license or game concept that appeals to me.
The bulk of my RPG collection is AD&D/D&D stuff, only because that's what I've been playing the longest. However I do buy other games/systems regularly - especially if it's a license or game concept that appeals to me.
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