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<blockquote data-quote="Silvercat Moonpaw" data-source="post: 5150242" data-attributes="member: 46652">Amusingly the first RPG book I ever bought I bought because I'd read a sample online and thought it had many interesting ideas (it was the 3.5e Draconomicon).&nbsp; It was only after I actually had the whole text that I discovered there was a game behind it.&nbsp; So my RPG gaming started out by wanting to read a book for its booknes.I've never been able to game that much: face-to-face issues to start, and now I can't stand sitting on my butt for an online chat game, so I'm left with PbP.&nbsp; Then there's the issue of my just being very picky about things like tone.&nbsp; So I really don't game much.&nbsp; Despite that I have more than a few texts.&nbsp; Thus you can definitely put me in the category of &quot;read more stuff than I get to play&quot;.More interestingly, however, I've now spent several years participating in &quot;games&quot; which are no games at all but collaborative stories: no rules, no GM, no exclusive control of characters or events.&nbsp; I've found after doing that for so long I get annoyed by the thought of going back to the old way.&nbsp; It may not be long now before I give up gaming for story-writing.&nbsp; Yet I'll still like the books for their ideas as well as for how their mechanical approach makes me think about certain things.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Silvercat Moonpaw, post: 5150242, member: 46652"] Amusingly the first RPG book I ever bought I bought because I'd read a sample online and thought it had many interesting ideas (it was the 3.5e Draconomicon). It was only after I actually had the whole text that I discovered there was a game behind it. So my RPG gaming started out by wanting to read a book for its booknes. I've never been able to game that much: face-to-face issues to start, and now I can't stand sitting on my butt for an online chat game, so I'm left with PbP. Then there's the issue of my just being very picky about things like tone. So I really don't game much. Despite that I have more than a few texts. Thus you can definitely put me in the category of "read more stuff than I get to play". More interestingly, however, I've now spent several years participating in "games" which are no games at all but collaborative stories: no rules, no GM, no exclusive control of characters or events. I've found after doing that for so long I get annoyed by the thought of going back to the old way. It may not be long now before I give up gaming for story-writing. Yet I'll still like the books for their ideas as well as for how their mechanical approach makes me think about certain things. [/QUOTE]

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