[DL] Combined format?

[Ross Coburn <coburn@sympatico.ca>]

Well, I'm only a single consumer, I don't expect my thoughts on the matter
will result in any policy changes.  On the other hand, pixels are free, so I
am going to hit you all with them anyhow.

I love Deadlands.  I enjoy playing, and I buy quite a bit of the material.
So do a number of my players, though by no means all of them.

I am not interested in Hell on Earth.  The subject matter just doesn't
appeal, nor frankly does the presentation.  Obviously I haven't looked at
Lost Colony, but if I'm going to play/run a sci-fi game, I'd play Traveller
first and a couple of others a distant second.

I realize that combined books are designed to cross-pollinate (for lack of a
better term) the various product lines.  In my case, they will not, and I
will be FAR less likely to buy a book that only marginally relates to my PEG
game of choice.

(And I am one of those game buyers who shells out quite literally thousands
of dollars a year on almost anything that catches my eye, even if I know I
won't use it.  There are a relative few games or systems I won't touch; ICE,
GURPS, Palladium and, unfortunately, HOE all number among them.  I buy books
just to browse them when I'm bored, with no expectations that I'll ever run
the game in question, but...)

But on principle, I'm unlikely to buy a book with only one-third
(potentially) interesting content.

On the other hand, other than Black Circle, I can't think of many other
books (beyond regional sourcebooks, which rate very highly with me) I need
to actually play/run the game.

My $.02, Confederate, no less!  <g>



Ross Coburn
coburn@sympatico.ca