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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xetheral" data-source="post: 7255220" data-attributes="member: 6802765">For me, it depends on context. If I'm joining or starting a game with friends because we're looking to spend time together and have fun, the parameters of the game are almost incidental. As a player I'll happily play whatever system the groups wants, with whatever options and restrictions. (As a DM I'm slightly more selective, since I want to be confident that my style of DMing can work well with the selected options.) The main draw is the social aspect, and the game itself is secondary.By contrast, if I'm considering joining a game with people I've never (or only recently) met, the main draw is the game itself. It's thus more important to me to make sure it's a game whose parameters and style I'm going to find enjoyable during the time it takes to build friendships with the other players.It's not a strategy that is succeeding in getting me to buy the extra books. I buy a supplement when the collective appeal of the new options is worth more to me than the price of the supplement. By parceling out the options across several books, they've ensured that none of them thus far have had a favorable value ratio. (Haven't yet considered XgtE.)Even though I'm almost always DMing, what I want from a supplement is appealing character options to add to my game (both for the PCs and NPCs). I run a homebrew setting, so details of published campaign settings and rare monsters have little value to me. The former aren't pertinent, and, unlike common or iconic monsters, published stats for the latter don't help establish the baseline of my game world--I can simply homebrew stats for monsters rare enough to be a one-off.</blockquote>

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