The awesome purchase thread!

[Settembrini]

I´m sick of the negativity, let´s showcase our sweet sweet purchases!

I just got me the eastern & western Trail Maps for Known World, Man are they awesome!
I opened them up and adventure seems to be behind every mountain or woodland hex.
Truly inspiring stuff, a world at my fingertips to go out and explore and adventure!
Yay for Trail Maps.

[Abyssal Maw]

Manga Matrix! This is a non gaming book about creating cool characters. It was originally written in Japanese and poorly translated so it's completely crazy in certain places. I love it.

[Joey2k]

It's a bit older, but I just got Allansia on ebay (the third-and rarest-Advanced Fighting Fantasy book).  It's going on my bookshelf of favorites right by my complete set of Dragon Warriors RPG books.

[Nicephorus]

The only thing that I bought recently was Spirit of the Century.  I really like it so far.  It winds up being about as complex as D20 but its approach is quite different.  A standard set of skills and stunts but no ability scores and  stuff totally made up by the player (aspects) have a big impact.

Don't believe everything you read in Pundit's review of it.  For example, he's right that the standard chargen isn't right for pickup games but a) the pickup game aspect is only a small part of how the game is advertised and b) there are about 20 pages on how to do chargen as you go and advice on making up the adventure on the fly.

Not a ton of art but what's there captures the feel well for me.

[KrakaJak]

Ow, I wouldn't consider it an AWESOME purchase, but I did just make a good one.
 
I just got Vampire: Dark Influences. It's more or less a quicker play game of Prince of the City, but with much more variet. Every game is just a little bit different and you can't use the same strategies twice.
 
I'm trying to figure out a way to incorporate it into my chronicle though. It seems like it should be able to, I just can't figure out how.

[droog]

I got Burning Wheel yesterday. I traded in three WEG SW books including the core (2nd ed. revised and expanded) plus an extra A$20, and got the two rulebooks and the Monster Burner.

I've read BW and I've been wanting to get my own copy. I'm one of those weirdoes who really likes scripted combat.

[Sosthenes]

I recently got the new Wilderlands box. It's a marvel of quantum physics as the boundaries of space and time obviously got sent out to play for this gaming supplement. There's no other explanation how you'd pack so much awesome into two books and maps (oh, the maps)...

And it's a box! Wheee...

[Mr. Analytical]

I recently paid about £6 for a Traveller LBB.

[RPGPundit]

It's a bit older, but I just got Allansia on ebay (the third-and rarest-Advanced Fighting Fantasy book).  

Damn you! DAAAAAAAMN YOU!! I have been wanting to get this book FOREVER.  Its pretty much impossible around here. Fuck.
You lucky bastard.

RPGPundit

[RPGPundit]

I recently got the new Wilderlands box. It's a marvel of quantum physics as the boundaries of space and time obviously got sent out to play for this gaming supplement. There's no other explanation how you'd pack so much awesome into two books and maps (oh, the maps)...

And it's a box! Wheee...

Wilderlands absolutely rocks.

As for me, my most recent pickups were Qin, and a bunch of WFRP stuff, including Spires of Altdorf and Sigmar's Heirs. All very good.

RPGPundit

[Bagpuss]

Manga Matrix! This is a non gaming book about creating cool characters. It was originally written in Japanese and poorly translated so it's completely crazy in certain places. I love it.

I'm unclear is it an art book for character design, or more about the character scripting ie: it's personality, goals and plots?

[Caesar Slaad]

I've had some okay purchases recently and at least one let down this month.

My best recent purchase was probably Jade Magi Sewer Crawl. I did pick it up during the $1 sale (over now, sadly). And am now sad that I didn't see it sooner. All in all, it's a pretty straighforward little scenario... but it has well developed NPCs and some excellent opportunities for roleplay. Too many of the old reviews for the adventure were nitpicking stats and forgot to mention the meat of the adventure

Best recent print purchase was probably Hordes of the Abyss.

[Casey777]

Chaosium's Prince Valiant for $1 or somesuch tucked away at the FLGS.

Half-Price Books:
Mentzer Basic with about 20-25 TSR dice in the box (made a nice rattle and the box had a "Free Swag!" tag on it)
Stormbringer 1st edition (whacky unbalanced BRP dark fantasy goodness)
GURPS Cyberworld (a very Cold War era cyberpunk world but has some neat plunderable bits* & CthulhuPunk made a lot more sense after getting this)

A friend of mine was clearing out some of her excess RPG stuff & I wound up getting some Planescape books for $0.99 each + shipping. They weren't really rare titles or anything but still good finds.


* Japanese-Russian alliance, a "hidden" China, Australia's "dead", free Alaska, a conquered Mexico, Russi-Yakuza, and some fun slang; I still don't have GURPS Cyberpunk but I doubt I'd use GURPS for Cyberpunk anyway & I have Transhuman Space

[arminius]

I got Burning Wheel yesterday. I traded in three WEG SW books including the core (2nd ed. revised and expanded) plus an extra A$20, and got the two rulebooks and the Monster Burner.

I managed to get the Monster Burner off eBay, shipped, for $12 American. Pretty happy about that.

Even better, as an overall deal, was a mess of Talislanta, 7 books, for $17.

[jrients]

About the only things I have been buying lately are Dungeon Crawl Classics modules.  Those Goodman Games people seem to be writing most of that line to appeal to my exact tastes.  All the trappings and mentality of old school dungeon munging written with a sound understanding of the new rules.