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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wild Gazebo" data-source="post: 6100512" data-attributes="member: 24413">It occurred to me the other day that it had been some time since I had tried or bought a new role-playing game.  Now, I pretty much shrugged it off immediately by thinking...well I'm just that age where I have what I like and I am comfortable with what I have.  But, then I thought of the changing times and of the sheer amount of missing goodies that I must be passing by--that got me stirred up a little.  So, being horrifically far away from any sort of storefront opportunity to browse and purchase games, I took to the interwebs.  Browsing through the pages upon pages of games and modules, credit card in hand, I chose three different systems that I have never played and one campaign world I have never played.I was a bit surprised about what drew me in...what drew me in to become interested in the purchases.  One was simply the art.  I don't consider myself shallow...or too terribly flighty...but I simply, immediately, got a feel for what they were trying the sell by connecting to the art.  I'm not too sure that is a very wise choice; but, I don't ever remember being betrayed by the art of a role-playing game before...fingers crossed.The second two I was simply swayed by the premise.  The idea percolated in my head.  It's hard to get a good sense of game play from ads and reviews.  Game play has never been a big problem for me...I've never had it ruin a game I was playing...I've had lack of understanding the rules...and poor understanding of the game play...but not the mechanics itself.  That being said I've really enjoyed certain types of game play more.The last was sheer nostalgia.   Perhaps this just works on the old creepy dudes; but, seeing those slightly out of proportion figures running through those poorly drawn halls does something for me.  Getting a glimpse at the cyanotype maps and grey-scale cross-sections really brings me back to a misspent youth of graph paper, polyhedral dice, and DM screens.  So, the surprising part for me is just how ridiculously frivolous my purchases were compared to how I do most of my other shopping.  I didn't research reviews, fan or professional, I didn't ask any friends, I didn't go looking for something specific, and I certainly didn't research the specifics.So, are you guys as flighty as me?  Does a good cover sell you on a product?  What are the things that make you pick up a new  gaming system?  I'm not talking about feeding a habit here...what is it that makes you pick one over the other....do you really do the research...or is it something else?</blockquote>

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