I just catch up on the old stuff I missed out on. Thankfully my metro has a nice spread of game and used book shops to supply my retro desires. As long as the speculation doesn't get ugly, I'm happy.

I just wish I could buy things like AS&SH or French CoC stuff right off the retail shelves. However owners will place online orders or me so I can pick it up. May seem unnecessary, but it helps a local play space beyond soda and snack sales.

Quote from: TristramEvans;696354Yeah, it's been a long time since I've walked into a game store and found anything that interested me that I didn't specifically go in to get.

Probably not since the advent of d20.

But, to be fair, it takes a lot more to capture my imagination these days. Most games it's"been there, done that".


Also, Toys R Us sucks these days. Two small rows of action figures, 50% Star Wars and any other line I might be interested on never reordered so just the same 2-3 second string characters. And then a handful of bad-looking hip modern revisions of superheroes.

Video stores are dead, and used bookstores ate not only getting rarer, but it's getting impossible to find "treasures" as everyone checks eBay selling prices (not auction end prices mind you) on stuff. (gee, wonder if those two are connected at all?)

Used to be, I'd spend a whole day shopping at all the aforementioned stores. Nowadays I get in, get out, and spend twice the amount of time shopping online.

Comic shops are still great.

I like lookign at boardgames as well but usually easier to order on line and Singapore really only has one games store and its crap

Have you hunted down every single AD&D 2e item?  That's actually pretty hard...I've got a lot of stuff, but you still seem to find things on Ebay that you don't have - despite having shelves full of stuff.

What about minis?  Bones kickstarter?

Come on.  There's gotta be something you can spend your money on.

Talk about First World issues.

Quote from: Blackhand;696578Come on.  There's gotta be something you can spend your money on..

Guess I agree with the others, there are things I could buy, but mostly its all rehashed versions of stuff I either already own or could make up better on the spot.

Back in the day, I bought stuff for the graphics as much as anything else, but with the advent of google image search I can find amazing pix to supplement any scenario for free at the drop of a hat. And I am way past buying every new version of a game I've owned for 20 years. Yeah it was fun buying the hard back version of CoC when I had the box, and then a paper-back version, and then the leather bound anniversary edition (green one) and then the D20 version -- but enough already!

I would buy the Pathfinder book, but $50?! When the SRD is online for free?!

I'm the same at the book store. Time was I bought a couple of paperbacks a week. Now I use my library's online catalog and order books delivered to my home library -- they even send me an email when its there.

I only get books and games as gifts now, off my wish list at Amazon. And, yes, I know that's killing the local game stores. But $50?!

BTW: I do still look for fully fleshed out adventure scenarios with real meat, and I have been known to plonk down $20 for same, but they are rarer than hen's teeth now (and in the past, truth be told.)

Remember The Masks of Nyarlathotep? I bought that twice -- the original boxed set and the republished paperback. I'm re-reading Nocturnum of an evening right now. This is the stuff that's gold. Another treatise on the color of a dragon's underbelly scales or the lifestyles of elves that live on the ice is pretty much worthless to me. I want plot! I want settings and props and NCPs with motives.

What'cha got, Blackhand?

Quote from: TristramEvans;696537Uh...what?

Unless I've missed something, it's been fairly thoroughly agreed upon that...

Supplements = Power Creep For Munchkins

Campaign Settings kill creativity.

New game systems are either crunch for the vidja game munchkins or rehashing of the perfection that is OD&D.

Minis and maps are for rules lawyers with "character builds" and the sick atrocity that is the 3.0 Rogue + flanking.

The only thing more bizarre (from an outsider's perspective) than an RPGSiter buying some sort of game material would be an RPGSiter writing something and expecting someone to buy it.

Quote from: Arturick;696645Unless I've missed something, it's been fairly thoroughly agreed upon that...

Supplements = Power Creep For Munchkins

Campaign Settings kill creativity.

New game systems are either crunch for the vidja game munchkins or rehashing of the perfection that is OD&D.

Minis and maps are for rules lawyers with "character builds" and the sick atrocity that is the 3.0 Rogue + flanking.

The only thing more bizarre (from an outsider's perspective) than an RPGSiter buying some sort of game material would be an RPGSiter writing something and expecting someone to buy it.

I don't remember agreeing to all that. :idunno:

Quote from: Arturick;696645Unless I've missed something, it's been fairly thoroughly agreed upon that...

Supplements = Power Creep For Munchkins

Campaign Settings kill creativity.

New game systems are either crunch for the vidja game munchkins or rehashing of the perfection that is OD&D.

Minis and maps are for rules lawyers with "character builds" and the sick atrocity that is the 3.0 Rogue + flanking.

The only thing more bizarre (from an outsider's perspective) than an RPGSiter buying some sort of game material would be an RPGSiter writing something and expecting someone to buy it.

I think you'll find that therpgsite has posters with a vast amount of differing opinions on such things, and that it's functionally impossible to derive an archetypal "rpgsiter" stereotype that could possibly fit more than 5% of the board's posters at any given time.



That's why we argue all the time here.

Quote from: TristramEvans;696656That's why we argue all the time here.

Isn't that why we all come here?

Quote from: Bobloblah;696658Isn't that why we all come here?

Well, I'm just here because you're here and I'm stalking you.

Damnit! I knew it!

I'm here to meet all those sexy gamer girls Felicia Day has convinced me exist.

I'm here to hijack the OSR and become its new Taliban Pope dude.

Sometimes the stores have something interesting. But I've been focusing more on recovering older game material.
I am still trying to finish off my Star Frontiers collection. Few modules to go.
Sadly the minis are disintegrating in the boxes.
Did though get TSR's office copy of the game.

Quote from: Arturick;696645Unless I've missed something, it's been fairly thoroughly agreed upon that...

Supplements = Power Creep For Munchkins

Campaign Settings kill creativity.

New game systems are either crunch for the vidja game munchkins or rehashing of the perfection that is OD&D.

Minis and maps are for rules lawyers with "character builds" and the sick atrocity that is the 3.0 Rogue + flanking.

The only thing more bizarre (from an outsider's perspective) than an RPGSiter buying some sort of game material would be an RPGSiter writing something and expecting someone to buy it.

You must be new here. It was sorta kinda relatively homogenous a while back but with the ongoing collapse of places like rpgnet and story-games it's picking up a great diversity of opinions who are quite appreciative of the freedom to be heard they find here.

Quote from: Arturick;696645Unless I've missed something, it's been fairly thoroughly agreed upon that...

Supplements = Power Creep For Munchkins

Campaign Settings kill creativity.

New game systems are either crunch for the vidja game munchkins or rehashing of the perfection that is OD&D.

Minis and maps are for rules lawyers with "character builds" and the sick atrocity that is the 3.0 Rogue + flanking.

The only thing more bizarre (from an outsider's perspective) than an RPGSiter buying some sort of game material would be an RPGSiter writing something and expecting someone to buy it.

I was born after the oldschool heyday and didn't actually start playing tabletop games until 4e had been out a while. I came here because people seemed to have thick skins and were less ban-happy than the folks at places like big purple or Something Awful.

I also love battle maps. Minis I could give or take, but only because I like that you can put any image you want on a pog.