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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ezrael" data-source="post: 1067457" data-attributes="member: 6262">I bought them. And I'm glad I did.I burn *way* too much money on games. This isn't to say that I think they're overpriced, because I don't...a trade paperback style book can run you between $15 and $20 nowadays, a movie's floating around $8-9 bucks, a CD costs between $15-20...but I simply spend money on stuff I'll never, ever play. In the past two months alone I bought the complete 3.5 revision, Arcana Unearthed, When The Sky Falls, Ghostwalk, Manacle and Coin and Ruins of Rathess, and the Silhouette Core Rules and Core Command Players Handbook. So it's fair to say, even if I have the disposable cash to spend on this stuff, that I spend too much on it and really shouldn't.That being said, I love RPG's. They're my main hobby now, well, that and weird old books from used book stores. I love playing in games, I love running games, I love reading through games I'll never run for ideas, I love coming upon new settings and new rulesets. I don't pretend to be as in-depth as most players get with particular systems...I've loved collecting and playing and reading games since the first edition of Gamma World came out (I'll probably buy that, too, just because I loved the original so much) and so on just that front, I bought 3.5.Now, as a gamer, I do like 3.5 and will probably use it (after I get my Arcana Unearthed game off the ground) because they did clean it up. On a financial level, I can't argue with those who say "Wait for the SRD" because they're right that it would be cheaper.But I wanted the books. I wanted to look at the layout, check out the new covers, have them at my disposal whenever I got the urge to look through them. I'd already had to replace my older copies of the 3.0 books once due to use, so I figured it was worth it. And I think I was right to do so, because in general I do think 3.5 is a tighter, leaner game that does clean up some glitches. I'm not thrilled with what they did to Bulls Strength, but I'll run with it a while, see if I like or dislike the effect it has. And I do think the emphasis on miniatures to be a mistake, but to be honest, in reading that chapter I didn't see anything that couldn't be done without mini's. Since I know I won't be using them, that made me happy.I think they could have gone about this differently. Perhaps resurrected the price break from when they released 3.0, perhaps throttled back on some of the big spell changes, perhaps left the focus on mini's where it was. For my part, I like the books, I'm glad I got them, I read them all the time, I'll run them as soon as I get a chance. (My AU campaign will probably use quite a few 3.5 rules.)</blockquote>

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