The older i get the less I need.

[TwoSix]

Im an outlier im just way too progressive to lay back on a final set for ease and expediency. Im continually looking for new experiences while enjoying the old. I feel like if I give in and slow down, mind atrophy and death is right behind.

No worries. The inexorable reality of our impending demise can be a real bummer!

 

[Autumnal]

You're telling me! I'm almost 50 and just about to finish up a Civil Engineering BS, previously having a BA in English Lit.

That’s pretty awesome, be it noted.

 

[R_J_K75]

20 or 25 years ago I made a conscious decision to get rid of stuff I no longer need or use. I still have a few bookshelves of books that aren't RPGs that I haven't gotten around to getting rid of but honestly no one wants them. Everyone I asked had no interest and I think I even asked at Amvets, the Salvation Army and Goodwill and they won't even take them anymore. Getting rid of books is like trying to throw out a garbage can by leaving it at the curb, the garbage men never take it. A few years ago, I was doing dishes and realized for someone that lives alone I has an absurd number of dishes and threw out 3/4 of them. Oddly enough somehow, I keep ending up with more pint glasses from people giving me them as presents.

Me and my brothers had to clean out my mother's apartment over the last few weeks and even though it was rather small, she had accumulated quite a bit of things, and getting rid of it was pretty difficult. I decided I don't want to leave a ton of crap that my family is going to have to deal with when I croak.

 

[J.Quondam]

20 or 25 years ago I made a conscious decision to get rid of stuff I no longer need or use. I still have a few bookshelves of books that aren't RPGs that I haven't gotten around to getting rid of but honestly no one wants them. Everyone I asked had no interest and I think I even asked at Amvets, the Salvation Army and Goodwill and they won't even take them anymore. Getting rid of books is like trying to throw out a garbage can by leaving it at the curb, the garbage men never take it. A few years ago, I was doing dishes and realized for someone that lives alone I has an absurd number of dishes and threw out 3/4 of them. Oddly enough somehow, I keep ending up with more pint glasses from people giving me them as presents.

Me and my brothers had to clean out my mother's apartment over the last few weeks and even though it was rather small, she had accumulated quite a bit of things, and getting rid of it was pretty difficult. I decided I don't want to leave a ton of crap that my family is going to have to deal with when I croak.

My excuse for keeping so many books is that they'll make a fine funeral pyre.

 

[kronovan]

I purged a lot almost 4 years ago when I moved and managed to get my CRB print books down to 5 (D&D5e, SWADE, FATE, Mythras, CoC 7) . I reduced my printed splat and companion books by an even greater amount - really only kept setting books.

I've since added HC CRBs for Dungeon Crawl Classics, 13th Age, Star Trek Adventures, Basic Roleplaying, Pendragon 6e and Mongoose Traveler 2. And a softcover of Cepheus Engine Deluxe. Sigh...so back up to using 12 CRBs and 12 rulesets. The difference for me this time though, is that all the splat & companion books I've purchased are PDFs. Bottom line - I've become very comfortable reading and searching PDFs on a tablet, so I'm not missing the print. I only have a print copy of the CRB at IRL tables for my players.

I suppose I could just run the Star Trek verse with SWADE or FATE, the Traveler verse with Cepheus Engine and Pendragon with BRP or SWADE. But I do like how those CRBs enhance or vary their underpinning rulesets, or build upon the previous edition the way MGT2e does with CE (MGT1e).

As to lighter rules, I'm fine with heavier crunch in some of the rules I use. I'm also big on tabletop miniatures play and a number of the players in my TTRPG circles are too. So with such rules often being crunchy, it sort of flavors what my group and I like in a TTRPG. We have used lighter rules in the past like AGE, FAE & Tiny D6, but they've only appealed to 1 or 2 of my groups at best.

 

[thullgrim]

About two months ago one of my irl players (and creator of savaged.us) died of cancer. I was talking to his widow and she had no idea what to do with his 40 years of rpg and tabletop wargaming stuff. I told her when she’s ready to give me a call and I’d help her out with it. I do not want my wife to have the same conversation about my stuff.

 

[kronovan]

Im an outlier im just way too progressive to lay back on a final set for ease and expediency. Im continually looking for new experiences while enjoying the old. I feel like if I give in and slow down, mind atrophy and death is right behind.

Yep, that more or less describes me too. If you consider senior years to begin at 55, I'm a fair ways into seniorhood. I just started studying Spanish this year and as to TTRPGs, I get bored if I don't have a new ruleset to learn and master at least once a year. I admit that my capacity to learn and retain has diminished somewhat, but I'm just too stubborn to not make another attempt to cram a few more rules in among my grey cells.

As to when I finally do slow down and expire...I'd be cool if a few CRBs were tossed into the casket.

 

[aramis erak]

I've been considering a purge... but most of what I would has better received editions currently in print and PDF. Like my HSR4/5/5r materials. about 1 cu ft thereof.
I could probably get good money for my read once D&D 3.0...

 

[Warpiglet-7]

Keep it up dudes! I am playing shooters here and there and holding my own…

My main new stimulation is learning more crafting with foam…my dungeon has grown…been magnetizing it etc and learning along the way…

I just can’t allocate the time to learn new strategy games.

In truth, I feel like I am still learning about D&D.

It’s a time thing for me…work and family means I have to be more focused in how I spend time. I don’t know though…learning new complicated games has gotten harder since I don’t have time to practice
And gain procedural memory.

 

[aramis erak]

Makes no sense to waste money on games you'll never play - or only play once.

It isn't "Minimalist" to spend your money on what you really need. It's smart. Like the OP I have only a few games (Rules Cyclopedia, Mutants & Masterminds, GURPS 4e and a few quick-starts).

I get that there's 'game collectors' who have the kind of income that enables them to engage in fashionable consumption. That's nice. But, some of us have more important things to spend money on. Especially with rpgs costing five to ten times what they cost forty years ago.

The value of the dollar (US, CA, AU) is roughly 1/5 what it was 40 years ago. And in certain fields, as weak as 1/10 what it was (real estate/housing). (And minimum wage only trebled.)

In real terms, the prices are essentially the same for non-licensed games, but the production quality is higher, largely due to desktop publishing and spellcheck. The shift in the 80's to DTP radically improved the top few tiers' look. The 00's rise in computer performance resulted in many of the lower tiers catching up.

Big name licensed games are more expensive than they had been... but not a lot more.