Reply To: Anti Shiny Syndrome League

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Well, just had pay day, and no minis were bought.  I call that a success.

One thought buzzing around my mind is whether buying updated rules counts or not.  I say this, because in certain circumstances, doing so may mean getting use out of old minis that would otherwise fester unused.  A case in point is the new Kill Team.  I bought into the big box Kill Team release a couple of years back but found the rules were a swing and a miss.  The new rules seem to be somewhat of an improvement so getting the book may encourage me to use the old models and 40k terrain I got back then, particularly as I notice AdMech rules in the latest WD.  There are a couple of folks in my group looking at it, but no one (including me) liked the previous ruleset, so it is shredder fodder.

Similarly I may get the Deadzone v3 rules when they come out next month.  I played the heck out of 1st edition, but other than acquiring the rulebook never got 2nd ed to the table for some reason.  If there is a reasonable chance of others in my group getting into it, I may be persuaded to dust off old models for v3.  And it would have to be v3 because no one else has 1st or 2nd, and in our group we don’t tend to share rulebooks for some reason.

I appreciate the tone of the OP was that we should play old games rather than buying new, but I can’t see that holding if the reason we ditched the old rules was we just didn’t like them, or got bored or fed up with them.

I’m interested to hear others’ views, as to how we should play this by-law! 😀

As an addendum, I’d like to find out if anyone else finds it hard to dump old rulebooks even if they aren’t being kept for any aesthetic or nostalgic or gameplay reasons.  I have a shelf or two full of old rulebooks that will never be opened again even just to flick through for nostalgia.  I’m not talking about that dog-eared copy of the AD&D Players Handbook from 1981 that I slept with under my pillow as a kid, or that copy of 2nd ed WFB that still gets to the table every decade or so, but rather the stuff like 2nd ed Malifaux which was boring AF and whose fluff left me cold, or 1st ed Bolt Action, which was OK at the time, but was just inferior to the current edition, and is just taking up room. etc. etc.  YMMV as to which particular books you do or do not want to look at again,  but you probably will have some, I’m pretty sure of that!

I should just dump them to free up the shelf space, but something just stops me.  It may be that their covers are still pretty on the shelf, or that they represent a lot of money spent at the time, but really I’m not sure what it’s all about?!  (Should add that this also applies to game cards – 1st and 2nd ed War Machine for instance).

Hey, ho.  Still some self-analysis to be undertaken yet awhiles I fear…