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What RPG-product Have you Spent Way Too Much Money On?

Started by RPGPundit, June 14, 2015, 08:49:16 PM

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TristramEvans

#15
June 15, 2015, 02:17:21 AM
I continue to spend way too much on Warhammer...or just enough, depending on if you ask me or ask my GF....

Beagle

#16
June 15, 2015, 03:40:12 AM
HarnMaster. The supplements are the absolute best you can probably expect from an RPG. Even the article about pigs will be the best thing you will ever read about swine in the context of RPGs, it might even be useful and smart and adds a lot to the world building of a great setting.
Nonetheless, HarnMaster stuff is way too expensive. Don't get me wrong, the ratio between quality and price is basically in the upper 10% of RPGs (probably if you include most free stuff), but even ithough it is reliably great, 30+ € for a 60 page pdf is just too much.
I still own quite a few of HarnMaster products (including the beforementioned article about Swine) of course, but I'm quite reluctant to get any more.

S'mon

#17
June 15, 2015, 03:48:42 AM
I'll not count the dozens of RPGs where I've bought the book & not played it.

I have a whole shelf full of 4e D&D hardbacks. I run 4e every fortnight but few of these ever see any use, they just don't contain much gameable material beyond the monster stats, which I get from the Compendium anyway.

Last year I went on a Pathfinder buying spree and bought several complete APs; now I'm not sure if APs are a good idea at all.

I have many thousands of fantasy minis, most of those potentially see use in my 4e & Pathfinder games, but I've been moving over to cardboard pawns for my Classic D&D game.

I have a few hundred science fiction minis, I don't think I've ever used them.
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JoeNuttall

#18
June 15, 2015, 03:50:24 AM
How about (nearly) every single Middle Earth product that ICE ever published?

It's easier to list what I don't have! I own everything except: a couple of the jigsaws, a couple of the adventure books, the simple Lord of the Rings adventure game, one of the boardgames - Riddle of The Ring (someone else's boardgame they republished), one of the versions of the MERP boxset, one version of the combat screen, one of the versions of Arnor, and a few MECCG oddities (folders and dice).

I must have 80+ books, and thousands of cards.

The thing that got most play?

The Fellowship of The Ring boardgame – that got played to death!

JoeNuttall

#19
June 15, 2015, 03:59:53 AM
Quote from: S'mon;836528Last year I went on a Pathfinder buying spree and bought several complete APs; now I'm not sure if APs are a good idea at all.

I ran MERP's "Palantir Quest" back in the mid '90s which was what they'd now call an Adventure Path. It wasn't a complete railroad to the extent that Dragonlance was, but it still effectively inoculated me against running an Adventure Path ever again! Mine them for ideas.

yabaziou

#20
June 15, 2015, 04:07:27 AM
I have bought a lot books from Palladium Books and White Wolf Publishing (the original not OPP), probably more that it is reasonable to do but but I have not regret and I have enough room in my home to stock them.
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June 15, 2015, 05:42:51 AM
Quote from: JoeNuttall;836532I ran MERP's "Palantir Quest" back in the mid '90s which was what they'd now call an Adventure Path. It wasn't a complete railroad to the extent that Dragonlance was, but it still effectively inoculated me against running an Adventure Path ever again! Mine them for ideas.

Thanks - yes, I think the right way to use an AP must be as a resource to mine, never get 'locked in' to actually running (or playing!) the written thing. It can be tricky though, they can easily suck you in until you find yourself on the rails.
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#22
June 15, 2015, 05:44:39 AM
Quote from: RPGPundit;836465Be it books, dice, miniatures, etc., what is it that you've ended up going a bit too crazy on?  What product line did you buy way more stuff for than you ever actually used?
Counting all expenses, it's definitely AD&D2e that takes the crown of most money wasted on related products:).
It was one of the first RPGs I got in, if not the first. I didn't have enough experience to know I'd hate the mechanics and the GMing style, and the GM claimed it can do anything, so I got a bunch of books on it;)!
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kobayashi

#23
June 15, 2015, 06:17:37 AM
Right now (I tend to sell what I don't use/read) Call of Cthulhu is the main culprit, I have way too many books and boxes, some I didn't even open or read, just keeping them because I love the game and telling myself that I can always use them for my Laundry campaign. The sad truth is I've spent way too much time and money to track some out of print stuff to sell it all now.

One Horse Town

#24
June 15, 2015, 06:59:43 AM
Ars Magica. Although i got most of it second hand for cheaper prices, i have never got to play it. Both because my group isn't that interested and free-form magic sounds awesome in theory, but is less awesome in play IME. I've mined it for some ideas though, so it wasn't totally wasted money.

jibbajibba

#25
June 15, 2015, 07:30:55 AM
Quote from: Ravenswing;836503Huh.  Using toothpicks to paint detail on minis.  I ought to try that ...

Anyway, for a few years, I bought damn near every GURPS release out of one of those 70s gamer's obsessions for Completeness.  I can think of at least a dozen books I never used and scarcely opened.

Better off using a pin and a self-propelling pencil. The toothpick gets soggy really fast and you have to replace a lot.
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ggroy

#26
June 15, 2015, 08:02:50 AM
- 4E D&D
- bargain bin d20 glut stuff
- Pathfinder

Omega

#27
June 15, 2015, 01:56:23 PM
When I think about it though I actually have not spent too much on Star Frontiers or Gamma World or Spelljammer. I get alot of use out of them and its been overall worth it. The only point where I felt I spent too much was on the three final modules for 4e Gamma World. And in the end buying the whole d20 GW from WW was a complete waste other than picking a few neet ideas out of. Like the community system. hmm. So maybee in the end I did spend too much on GW.
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nezach

#28
June 15, 2015, 07:28:30 PM
Another "Way too many GURPS books" here as well. Went crazy for them in the 90s but gradually got rid of them all after 2000.

To a lesser extent I did that with (Mega)Traveller as well. Gradually culled that mess so just the classic books remain. Nowadays we use SWN for SF gaming though.
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JamesV

#29
June 15, 2015, 09:32:49 PM
I must cop to buying the collector's edition copies of Deathwatch and Black Crusade. My new Xbox One cost around the same amount. :o

Then again, they are really handsome books.
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