[freeroleplay] Re: Opportunities for Free Gaming?
- From: Jamie Jensen <yarvin@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: freeroleplay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 01:58:13 -0600
Hmm... Well, I've never had too much trouble with playing being
sporadic simply because we didn't all have the books (though we did
once have one player abuse his superior knowledge of the AD&D 2nd
Edition Skills & Powers book).
On the other hand, we do tend to like having at least the core books.
I've been considering buying the WoD core for a while now, but even
$20 is a bit much to spend for something you currently have on loan
from one of your group, especially when Vampire is $35. Imagine if it
were $15, instead. That would be two sales instead of one, for a
total of $30 instead of $20.
Don't even get me started on D&D 3.5. I'm just glad it's not too
dissimilar to 3.0.
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 19:10:28 -0800, Jerry Stratton <jerry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 9:58 PM +0000 on 11/26/04, Samuel Penn wrote:
> >How many people who play an RPG actually buy the rules? In
> >our groups, it's often that the GM will have a copy of the
> >rules and no-one else will. So that $30 is split amongst
> >five or six people (of course, it's always the same couple
> >of people GMing, so the cost doesn't really get shared, but
> >the effect on the company's profits is the same).
>
> IME, it depends on how often the game gets played. Back in AD&D 1E days, most
> people I gamed with had at least a copy of the players handbook. When we
> started playing DragonQuest regularly, most of the members of our group ended
> up with a copy of that. But other games that we played sporadically, such as
> V&V or Runequest, we made do with only one copy. It was always limiting to do
> so, however. (I finally picked up a copy of Runequest in memory of those days
> just about two years ago.)
>
> But the point is that for any game that's become popular (D&D, Shadowrun,
> Vampire), they are complex enough that it becomes useful to have more than
> one copy of the game, especially during character creation.
>
> Now that we're playing Gods & Monsters, we generally have two and a half
> copies: I have a copy of all of the rules; another player keeps his wireless
> laptop nearby for quick reference of the PDFs, and also has a printout of all
> the rules he has deemed appropriate to his character (mostly spells); and
> another sorceror player has a copy of the Arcane Lore book
> (spellbook/specialty book) that gets passed around whenever the characters
> jump a level.
>
> I think for any long-running game, multiple copies of pertinent rule
> books/sections will always be desirable. Whether or not it actually happens
> will depend on the cost of the rules and how often the game is played.
>
> Although as I recall now, one of the reasons we played DragonQuest more often
> than other non-D&D games back in college was that we had run across a cache
> of the boxed set for something like $5 apiece; we all bought it because of
> the price, and then played it because it meet our minimum requirements and we
> all had a copy. Fortunately, no one else was with me when I ran across and
> bought a one dollar version of the "Cyborg Commando" boxed set.
>
> Jerry
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>
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