Would you purchase an expansion, from a different system than you use, to adapt for your preferred system? If yes why?

[Blue]

Would I purchase something from another system (as opposed to generic) to use with my preferred system? Probably not. Just about everything I do is 100% homebrew adventures and setting.

But there are variations on this that are a yes.

Would I purchase something for my preferred system to convert it for a system I happen to be running? Sure, why not.

Would I take something I already own, and convert it to a preferred system? I might.

Would I purchase something generic, like inventive traps (Grimm's I'm looking at you) or spaceship deckplans that I could use in multiple systems to use with my preferred game? That's maybe the most likely yes of these three.

 

[giant.robot]

looks at shelf bowing under the weight of dozens of GURPS books

Yes. I very much have. In fact I'd say about 80% of the game books I own because I wanted to use them as references or adapt ideas to other systems than use them for the system they're published for. Before the Internet was packed to the gills with Wikis for every fandom under the sun game books were very useful references for various fandoms.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I myself can think of a few products I would like to have for my system...Encyclopedia Magica from TSR, the full Undermountain maps and modules come to mind from Forgotten Realms DnD. Can you think of any product where the ideas and creativity of the product you would want to incorporate into running your campaign world? Would you purchase them to do so?

I use Encyclopedia Magica in my Level Up game, and use worldbuilding rules from a variety of other RPGs.

 

[aramis erak]

I myself can think of a few products I would like to have for my system...Encyclopedia Magica from TSR, the full Undermountain maps and modules come to mind from Forgotten Realms DnD. Can you think of any product where the ideas and creativity of the product you would want to incorporate into running your campaign world? Would you purchase them to do so?

I rarely do this. Hell, I seldom use Third Party Products (3PP). I've been using a bunch for Daggerheart... and have been contemplating more... but I consider RightKnightToFight to not really be 3PP, because they're part of the design team for the core rules.

The one series of products I have hapily used was Avalanche Press' stuff. Sure, the cover art was NSFW level lurid objectification of (mostly) women — I, Mordred does similar for the titular character — but the contents were always solid. I've used varying degrees of the setting work of I, Mordred in my Pendragon Campaigns. I have considered using the setting work (not rules) with Cortex Prime, but have yet to do so. And Noble Steeds is an excellent introduction to horses, easily patched to 5E, PF, or Daggerheart.

Oh, and Tabletop Adventures LLC, has rereleased the Avalanche materials, but with plain brown cover art.

 

[Distracted DM]

Have I picked up supplements/stuff from a game for use in a different game? Absolutely, many times. Have I ever actually used it? Ummmm . . . .

This is the way.

But really, I think that's the whole shelfware/collector thing that lots of TTRPG enthusiasts with impulse control problems end up doing... you see a TTRPG product, think it could serve you well in whatever games you run, or tell yourself "hey maybe one day I'll run this!", you buy it... well, whether it gets used or not that's up in the air. But you certainly intended to buy those DCC 3pp adventures to use in DnD, because the adventures look cool!