Glad to see GURPS getting some love. I read the core books over and over. The one source book I couldn’t get enough of was the old Fantasy one detailing the world of Yrth. I always washed to run a campaign where players created themselves as characters, got transported to Yrth and gained abilities due to the increased magic. Never got to do that.
I also read the shit out if the original version of the Star Wars RPG, especially Cracken’s Rebel Field Guide, written as an in-universe manual for Rebel Alliance soldiers and operatives.
Vampire: The Masquerade had good lore, if a bit derivative.
Even though I am still an avid roleplayer, I won a lot of stuff that will never see Play. Especially now with Humble Bundles it gets worse. I have all the Brandon Sanderson RPG’s, different Editions of the Warhammer RPG and something I forgot the Name of but basically it was National Enquirer Headlines are all True: The RPG. It was worth it for the random Headline Generator alone.
I’m currently only running one system for my group, but I do collect core books from other systems without plans to run them, mainly because I find it interesting to see how the rules are different and what types of games they excel at.
The ratio between RPG products I have bought to RPG products I have actually played s probably 10:1 or higher. I don’t buy as much as I used to, however.
Yeah, I got a good chunk of mine from Half Price Books, and there’s just not as many people getting rid of their old collections anymore (and of those, the good/interesting ones now seem to be mostly moved to the locked cabinets where they are more Double Price books).
Yeah, I could get PDFs and all, I suppose, but it’s just not the same. (particularly on the toilet…)
I know, right? Usually when I’m asked what I did in high school, I say track and D&D. Even though i really mostly played GURPS. I got sick of trying to explain what GURPS was/is. My point is that you are all fucking NEEEEEERRRRRRRRDDDDS, and I love you.
Back in the 80’s and 90’s, I purchased a ton of games that I never got a chance to play. I have a 2-row book case full of Avalon Hill games, Twilight 2000, etcetera.
I play Pathfinder today, and I still occasionally buy supplements and modules that I’m never likely to play, just for the sheer joy of reading them and gleaning ideas from them.
I have a lot of gamer geek friends, and together they probably have every edition of D&D rulebooks and Pathfinder modules.
I have my old Rolemaster 1st edition rulebooks, all beaten and battered throughout the years. A friend found a source where that had all the Rolemaster products in PDF form, so I grabbed everything I could find. I found Darkspace, which I lost years ago, along with all sorts of SF and Fantasy genres: Samurai, Cyberpunk, Space Master, Greek, Egyptian…
