Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doctor Futurity" data-source="post: 7808495" data-attributes="member: 10738">I'm one of two people who always buy the games at my game table (and both myself and the other guy also regularly GM). One of my players gets his books through me as hand-me-downs. The other (my wife) buys just the books we play. The rest of the table does not appear to be invested in the ownership side of the equation (they play what we buy, but don't buy themselves) but interestingly will seem to pay for online services that offer character generators and such.That said....even I balked at buying Invisible Sun until after I had thoroughly read a lot of reviews and comments on it (and I am a diehard Cypher System fan) because spending that much on a single initial purchase requires a certain risk that you may not get any play time out of the game.....you have to accept you may be buying a fun vanity read with no utility beyond ownership, ultimately. In my case that's how it's worked out so far, though not for lack of interest in playing it, but rather because my time is limited and I am not very good at playing games with loads of props and pieces (I do not purchase or play boardgames, for example). That said: if any game will get me to try it out with all these pieces it will be Invisible Sun, even if I have to wait until I'm retired to find the time to make it work.$100 for the PDF is too much for me, however. Not because I wouldn't like (or benefit from) having it on hand, but I am an old school gamer and the PDF is purely a complimentary product purchased for utility. I have never and will never run a game just using a PDF; I need hard print books on the table for that to happen. I will, however, use a PDF as an easy reference when designing a scenario, especially if I want to do so while at the coffee shop or a friend's house without hauling around a forty pound cube. The accessibility of the PDF is well worth it.....but purely as an accessory to the real product. If I'd been able to purchase the Cube and gotten a key for a PDF I would have been quite happy.</blockquote>

Verification