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Originally Posted by Joseph Paul
My purchasing habits differ quite a bit from yours Simlasa. Intriguing background with a crap system attached? I would never part with money for it. In fact I end up buying systems just to see how they function. That determines if I continue to buy material for it. Great system with a setting that I am not interested in? Eh, I will pass on the setting. If the system and the setting are hard wired to one another I may pass on the system too.
I don't like Lovecraft for instance so I don't have any of the CoC material beyond a very old second(?) edition and a 5th that was on sale at Half Price Books.
Liked Moorcock's work but there were things in Stormbringer that I just couldn't stomach so I never did get much beyond the Companion and Demon Magic and I got those because I was looking for additional rules not settings as I had determined that I wasn't going to play SB.
I do have quite a bit of setting/adventure stuff for RQII/III, 2300AD and Twilight2K.
If the system can't meet my needs then I eschew the whole line. So catching me with the rules is of paramount importance. Second comes having a setting that I think is intriguing and fun.
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I own alot of settings which have rules I dont like very much. Why? I just use BRP for them if I want to play it. Examples are Traveller, 2300AD, Cyberspace (which has Rolemaster rules), Midgard (a german rpg), Fading Suns, Blue Planet, Terran Trade Authority and some more. No problem at all to replace their mediocre rules and use good old BRP for them.