Of late I’ve
been reading some Pathfinder Adventure Paths, in particular Kingmaker and now
Second Darkness. Do I intend to ever run these? No, in fact I do not even own
the Pathfinder game system and while I own most of 3E, it is not my system of
choice these days.
In all honesty,
I am reading them for fun, not for any gaming purpose.
Sure, I
might use some of the concepts and encounter ideas in one of my own games down
the road. I might convert the Adventure Paths to a system I prefer. Or I might
even break down and pick up the Pathfinder rule set. But that is not the intent
of reading the gaming books.
The books
are well written, packed with detail and it all works to stimulate my
imagination. Much the same way a novel does. In my imagination I wonder how my
players would handle the adventure or how I would do it if I was a player. I
imagine the settings and NPCs. It is all
a source of entertainment.
Of course,
the thought that I read gaming books for fun didn’t strike me until I was
looking over my Mutants and Masterminds collection. While I love the super-hero
genre I will never run M&M. I will never use these books. The game is far
too bloated with far-flung rules for my tastes. I am actually running a Savage
Worlds super-hero game right now instead. However, I own every M&M book I
can get my hands on (both by Green Ronin and all the Super-Link publishers as
well). This isn’t even a case of “I might run M&M some day”, because I know
I never will. But I sure do like to read their stuff.
I have an extremely large
collection of RPG games. I know I will never be able to run most of them, but
in the back on my mind I have plans to run them at some point. But there are a
couple that I know I will never run. Do you have any game rules/supplements
that you know you will never run?
1 comment:
I have a big collection of Dragon Magazine. I had a subscription since early 2e, and even though I don't play 1e (and probably never will again), I'm always looking to fill in those early gaps in my collection. The magazines are fun to read and I find there are plenty of ideas to be stolen that aren't dependant on edition.
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