02-03-2011, 07:42 AM | #11 |
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Chatham, Kent, England
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Re: GURPS impulse purchases
Funny, now that you mention it...
The GURPS books I've bought on impulse (Russia, Japan, Medieval 1?, Cops, Who's Who), have always had an influence on my own-brew games. I read them, recall some useful item when winging it as a GM, and things tend to gain a little more consistency because of it. It seems to fit my GM style to have the books as a vague background knowledge. 'Cops' frex, gave me enough knowledge of the Japanese police system to do a short-notice improvised game based on the first 'Ring' movie, before anyone else in the group had seen it or the remakes. Russia has informed how I play in another game, which is an iron-age celto-viking environment, in which I have a character who believes all the fear-and-wonder stories about the great beasts that live in the forests. It always gets changed or filtered through my own mind, but the random books always have an effect. GURPS: China, now; I went out of my way to obtain through ebay, spent much time on constructing a campaign and background, but have yet to persuade players to play it. So it goes. :( |
02-03-2011, 07:48 AM | #12 |
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Re: GURPS impulse purchases
I guess you could say that every book I've bought after Basic 3e is an impulse buy - and worth it.
I don't know whether I'd love or dread finding a 2h bookstore that sold GURPS books - I don't have that much storage space!
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02-03-2011, 08:29 AM | #13 |
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Nowhere, MI
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Re: GURPS impulse purchases
I bought the 4th edition basic set and Magic on impulse and never looked back (although to date I've only used magic once in a demo game I ran four or five years ago). When my FLGS closed a couple years back I bought out their entire GURPS stock which included GURPS Religion, Bloodtypes, Villains, Shapeshifters, Japan, Bunnies and Burrows (my personal pick of the litter) among a few others. All with no intention of ever using them. I also have a bunch of .pdf's that I bought on impulse that I only realized afterwards that I will never use.
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02-03-2011, 11:27 AM | #14 |
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Re: GURPS impulse purchases
I have this selfsame problem, too, except that several years ago I exhausted the local GURPS resources of FLGS and second-hand bookstores. GURPS is still the first RPG material I check for when I go to the local gaming store or the secondhand bookstore. And to think, when my wife-to-be said she was more interested in GURPS than in AD&D, I thought I might never get into anything that wasn't AD&D!
Of course, there are perils to buying things second-hand. I've got two copies of Black Ops because the first one apparently belonged to someone who couldn't bear to part with Chapter 5: Characters but couldn't care less about the rest of the book....
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02-03-2011, 01:26 PM | #15 |
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Vancouver, WA (Portland Metro)
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Re: GURPS impulse purchases
Just bought Transhuman Space: Toxic Memes and Transhuman Space: Spacecraft of the Solar System today, because I want to be able to clear some shelf space in my library. :-)
Pity I won't be seeing PDF copies of GURPS Uplift (1st or 2nd ed.) or GURPS Alpha Centauri... Slowly buying up my "GURPS Classic" collection... |
02-03-2011, 04:48 PM | #16 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Brasilia, Brazil
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Re: GURPS impulse purchases
Cahalans Crosstime Saloon. I'll never play it, nor read the novels nor use any of the material in a table, but it was GURPS and it was in a second hand store. So I bought it and read it all.
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02-04-2011, 09:53 AM | #17 | |
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Re: GURPS impulse purchases
Hi, Craig!
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02-04-2011, 10:16 AM | #18 |
Join Date: Oct 2007
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Re: GURPS impulse purchases
I can go you one better: I actively disliked the novels but still bought a copy of GURPS Callahan's. Partly because of the alcohol rules -- hey, every game can use tavern brawls -- and partly because, well, it's GURPS. In general, I would rather give my gaming dollar to SJG than anyone else (and supporting my FLGS in the process is a bonus).
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02-04-2011, 10:18 AM | #19 |
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Milwaukee, WI
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Re: GURPS impulse purchases
Actually, I am reminded of GURPS Religion: bought it, didn't care for it, lost it, and Bought it again because I didn't rememember how much I didn't like it. I just knew it was GURPS, and I had to have it.
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