My copy of Star Trek Adventures arrives today.

I had resisted the lure of a new Star Trek game.  I originally got into RPGs wanting to play Star Trek, and here I am 37 years later and I have yet to play in a Star Trek game.  I have no hope that STA will change that.  I already had Icon Trek, Coda Trek, Far Trek, and Starships & Spacemen.  I didn't need another one.

But I was reading reviews of the game, trying to learn about it.  I started discovering how movement is handled in the combat system.  My impression was that movement is handled by an "area" system similar to the old TSR Marvel Super Heroes RPG.  This brought back memories of having the MSH city maps taped to my game table and having sprawling miniature superhero battles.

And that made me order the game.  The idea of Starfleet officers and Klingons on a MSH style map engaged in fisticuffs broke down my resistance for some reason.

Anyone else have any stupid/strange reasons why you bought an RPG?

I absolutely hate Space Opera, but I have a bunch of adventures and star sector atlases from Space Opera that I picked up cheap because I love the Jeff Dee artwork in them.

Quote from: jeff37923;1042781I absolutely hate Space Opera, but I have a bunch of adventures and star sector atlases from Space Opera that I picked up cheap because I love the Jeff Dee artwork in them.

I bought a copy of Space Opera - not that long ago - just for the cover. It wasn't even the sexy cover.

Other Suns: Because a friend of mine way back illustrated it. I came to despise the designer though and have never run it.
Gurps Bunnies & Burrows: Because a friend of mine way back illustrated it. I am not a fan of Gurps and I am REALLY nor a fan of SJG sooo...
Albedo Platinum Edition: Bought it just to see how badly they would fuck it up after ganking the writing deal out from under me. yay...
4e D&D Gamma World: Bought it just to see how badly they would fuck it up after the designers would not shut up about how ha-ha slapstick the setting was. Surprisingly aside from some minour text it is... Not. Also surprisingly it actually does 4e D&D better than 4e. Go figure.

My list of stupid is extensive. Basically, I see RPG rulebooks and "impulse buy" them even though I doubt that I'll ever play or run them, and even though my gaming group has little interest in anything but D&D. Certain topics (Barsoom, Lankhmar, Conan, Elric, etc) sucker me in all the time. Certain game systems (FATE, Sorcerer, etc) look really cool but I'll never get my group interested. They may be great games, but I'll never play most of them.

I don't do that, as a general rule:).

I admit I have supported two Kickstarters as my own "fuck you guys, that's why" to different groups of people who I knew would get offended (not the same group). That was only stupid in the sense that I had doubts whether I'm going to actually like the games.
But then I also wanted to try the relevant systems that came with them. So I might have backed anyway to get the games cheaper...

For the record, I tried them both (both delivered). They both sucked;)!
I know better than to suggest either of them to my regular group.

Quote from: finarvyn;1042822My list of stupid is extensive. Basically, I see RPG rulebooks and "impulse buy" them even though I doubt that I'll ever play or run them, and even though my gaming group has little interest in anything but D&D. Certain topics (Barsoom, Lankhmar, Conan, Elric, etc) sucker me in all the time. Certain game systems (FATE, Sorcerer, etc) look really cool but I'll never get my group interested. They may be great games, but I'll never play most of them.

This used to be me. Then I got married and my budget became constrained...

I've been selling off a lot of the stuff so acquired.

Frank

Any RPG I bought because I liked the movie/TV show.

I bought Gurps Transhuman Space because Christopher Shy did the artwork. Lucky for me, it turned out I really liked it and bought the rest of the books in the line.

I bought all of the Neverworld stuff because one of the authors did a good job selling it to me at Dragon Con back in '95 or '96. They were really passionate about it, and there were some neat ideas buried in there, but it was a huge mess. The system was a very complicated heartbreaker, and there were severe setting inconsistencies even with only 1 country and 2 races ever getting detailed to any real degree.

I recently bought a new used copy of GURPS Basic Set 3rd Edition, Revised purely due to nostalgia. The solo adventure near the back of that book was the first real RPG thing I ever got to play, a few years before I ever found an actual group to play stuff with. It's also one of the few RPG books I ever read from cover to cover. So when I saw a faded copy at a Half Price Books, I grabbed it.

I picked up both Mongoose Traveller 2e and Stars Without Number 2e because I really wanted to play something similar to Dark Matter, which I'd been binging at the time. It's still pretty high on my list.

I have a number of French language Agone products that I got because I loved the stuff in the books that got released in English and wanted more. My French is not very good.

Between all of that, there have been too many impulse purchases to count. Lots of them for little to no reason beyond "it looked neat at the time."

Yes, many games have been bought from the idiotic "I will use parts of it in my own game!" premise.

Quote from: AsenRG;1042824I admit I have supported two Kickstarters...

Oh, kickstarters. They are like an "impulse buy" except that by the time you have to pay for them you aren't interested any more. Worst of both worlds. I kicked for Savage Flash Gordon and was so pumped ... rewatched the old movie and everything ... then months passed and they said "ready to ship, charging your account" and I was thinking that I should have held out for Barsoom or something else. It will probably be great, but I may never play it because my group isn't into Savage Worlds or scifi that much.

I never used GURPs Space 3e for GURPS, but I used it a lot for other games.

I bought the original Blue Rose because I could play a cat who was sneaky and who liked to eat things while they still moved. I bought the most recent one so I could have a print copy of something AGE system, though I don't like AGE.

I don't like Tolkien but I bought the AIME Player's and Loremaster's Guides because it's a really nice iteration of 5e and next time I run a game in Faerun, I will probably use the classes and some other rules.

Quote from: Krimson;1042971I bought the original Blue Rose because I could play a cat who was sneaky and who liked to eat things while they still moved. I bought the most recent one so I could have a print copy of something AGE system, though I don't like AGE.

Yeah.  I've done similar.  D&D 3.0 and 3.5.

I once went to a game store that was going out of business.  I bought about $120 of stuff that was marked down an average of about 90% off.  It's actual value to me turned out to be less than $10--and that might be generous.  Then to cap it off, I took it all with me several times when I moved.  

The only real benefit I got out if it was that it was the germ of the movement towards not buying stuff unless I planned to use it soon.  That was probably worth $110+ in the long run.