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<blockquote data-quote="shurai" data-source="post: 1854316"><p>I bought a complete rules system in 1996 for $10. (West End Games' D6 system, which used to run Star Wars.) It was a good system, not too fancy, but it worked, and it was clean and consistent.</p><p></p><p>It wasn't on glossy paper, wasn't hardcover, and wasn't in color (except the cover). The production values weren't even that good. But it was and is one of my favorite RP books; I read and reread that book a hundred times, and I wrote several rules variants and settings for it on my own. The thing is so dog-eared it's practically falling apart.</p><p></p><p>But $30 for a PHB? Some systems give you the *whole game* for that much. Yeah, I think D&D is too expensive, especially since 3.5. Thanks to borrowing the books I need from friends and such, I don't need to spend money on it anymore. If I did, I'd probably just stop playing.</p><p></p><p>The whole thing is pretty laughable once you think about it. Here we are, a crowd of smart, motivated roleplayers who are willing to spend hours upon hours on our hobby. We've got the hand of God for information processing and communication literally at our fingertips. There's thousands of us, some of us so dedicated we're willing to spend hundreds of dollars every year on it. Yet for some reason so many of us are still dependent on those $35 rulebooks that keep coming out.</p><p></p><p>I'm all for businesses making money, but I can roll my own material for free, and actually get what I want, should I ever decide to GM again. The next gaming purchase I make may very well be a domain name and some hosting, so I can set up a serious website for an open-source roleplaying system I'm cooking up. If I can get some people to play it, and some people to help me develop it, well, then we'll have a revolution on our hands. : ]</p><p></p><p>-S</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shurai, post: 1854316"] I bought a complete rules system in 1996 for $10. (West End Games' D6 system, which used to run Star Wars.) It was a good system, not too fancy, but it worked, and it was clean and consistent. It wasn't on glossy paper, wasn't hardcover, and wasn't in color (except the cover). The production values weren't even that good. But it was and is one of my favorite RP books; I read and reread that book a hundred times, and I wrote several rules variants and settings for it on my own. The thing is so dog-eared it's practically falling apart. But $30 for a PHB? Some systems give you the *whole game* for that much. Yeah, I think D&D is too expensive, especially since 3.5. Thanks to borrowing the books I need from friends and such, I don't need to spend money on it anymore. If I did, I'd probably just stop playing. The whole thing is pretty laughable once you think about it. Here we are, a crowd of smart, motivated roleplayers who are willing to spend hours upon hours on our hobby. We've got the hand of God for information processing and communication literally at our fingertips. There's thousands of us, some of us so dedicated we're willing to spend hundreds of dollars every year on it. Yet for some reason so many of us are still dependent on those $35 rulebooks that keep coming out. I'm all for businesses making money, but I can roll my own material for free, and actually get what I want, should I ever decide to GM again. The next gaming purchase I make may very well be a domain name and some hosting, so I can set up a serious website for an open-source roleplaying system I'm cooking up. If I can get some people to play it, and some people to help me develop it, well, then we'll have a revolution on our hands. : ] -S [/QUOTE]
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