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(Date Posted:09/19/2005 00:30:17)

Honestly, I just picked up the GM and Player Books about 2 weeks ago, and am on the verge of rampantly ordering just about any nation book and secret society book I can get my hands on (I have Castille, Vendel/Vesten, Invisible College and Erebus Cross so far). Is it any use trying to refrain, or should I just give in?
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(Date Posted:09/19/2005 01:14:09)

Well, one thing to keep in mind. The books only get more and more out-of-print everyday. The longer you wait, the longer it will take and (potentially) more expensive it will get to collect them for your library.


That said, St. Claire has said on the official boards over at AEG that there's something possibly in the works. There's fair speculation that that it (the "something possibly") might be the long called for PDF'ng of the books. If this is the case, then running around like a chicken with your herad cut off looking for books might be too much, dependant upon your feelings about PDFs.


As for how I resisted...


At first I could not (these were the ORIGINAL nation and Society books). I got them the day they came out if not before. I worked at a game store in those days. When the books changed format (to the "blue books") and the d20 influences  soon began I started finding it VERY, VERY  EASY to resist them until those times when I didn't have much anything else to buy at the game store.


As for the speculation: I would rather hope to see a new edition of the game not unlike how Legends of the Five Rings was done. If for no other reason then to have a attempt at redemption after the terrible game that SBA (so called d20 7th Sea) was. (Keep in mind I generally play and like d20, I just hated SBA.)

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(Date Posted:09/19/2005 03:11:56)

"So,  how  did  you  all  refrain  from  buying  every  book  at  the  beginning?"


I didn't.  I just wish I would have found this game sooner ...

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(Date Posted:09/19/2005 04:48:13)

eBay was my friend in those formative years (before everything went OOP and became INSANELY expensive).

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(Date Posted:09/19/2005 07:20:43)

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When the books changed format (to the "blue books") and the d20 influences  soon began I started finding it VERY, VERY  EASY to resist them until those times when I didn't have much anything else to buy at the game store.



Damn my obsessive completionism!!! DAMN IT TO HELL!!!


(I am speaking as the guy who bought two copies of each of the original books JUST IN CASE...)


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(Date Posted:09/19/2005 07:40:43)

Well, I'll run off the list I'm currently considering.  Feel free to let me know if there are any stinkers in there:


-Eisen


-Ussura


-Los Vagos


-Montaigne (if I can find it)


-Voddace


-Rose and Cross


-Rilsciarie


-Frieburg

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(Date Posted:09/19/2005 07:59:21)

In general all those are fine. Everyone has favourites and dislikes, so you'll get personal preference. I HATE Los Vagos so I would wait to get that last (if at all), others think the R&C are JediWannaBes, and still others don't like the nation of Ussura...mainly because they lack the juice to fit it into the game. It's all personal preference and which direction you are starting your game in.


One thing: Anyone who has Freiburg will tell you to get that at nearly all costs. (If they don't, they are morons and stop talking to them now. Seriously.) It is a GREAT box set. One of the best city box sets ever made for any game, and I have a number of them to prove it. If I am not mistaken nearly every GM that posts here has run it, or parts of it. Even if you don't run the campiagn in it, there's a 100 adventure hooks to run the city as is. I recommend having Eisen if you have Freiburg for obvious reasons.


Hope that helps.

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(Date Posted:09/19/2005 16:28:18)

Personally, I bought most of the nations (minus Ussura) and secret societies (minus Sophia's Daughters) pretty quickly and really enjoyed/used them. Those last two (plus adventures) just didn't interest me until i realised how close I was to a full set and HAD to finish it.



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