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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scourger" data-source="post: 1880871" data-attributes="member: 12328">the bane of new gamesMy issue as a DM is new d20 games.  In the heady days when 3.0 was relatively new, I bought many, many new d20 games.  I've (painfully) learned to pare the list down to a smaller (but still unmanageable) number of games that I really want to run in the scarce time available to run all the great remaining games.  Luckily, many of the new games had no (or way too few) modules to be worthwhile and/or presented so many rules changes as to make them unplayably unwieldy.  Combined with my player's antipathy for such games, ranging from simple disinterest to outright boycott, I've recently parted with a lot of those games (as well as settings and modules).  There just isn't enough time or interest for everything.  Now, I look at a new gaming purchase as an expenditure of entertainment dollars--like renting several movies.  I read it and decide if I'll run or use it.  If so, I keep it.  This is the exception.  If not, I sell it on eBay for $1 so that someone else can get some gaming goodness out of it.  This is the norm.  I'm more discrening, but some stuff just looks so cool I can't pass it up.  (Relics & Rituals Olympus is the most recent example.  It is a gorgeous book, and I'm enjoying reading it.  I doubt I'll keep it, however, as it does not present the kind of Greek campaing I would want to run if I had the time and the players to do it.)</blockquote>

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