"Is your gaming circular?" Topic

Not the table or bases but what you play?

I'm currently thinking of buying Bloodbowl even though I sold my goblins (part painted) on eBay and sold the rules etc years ago and have at least three games in the pile that I have purchased and sold previously. I have also Ben know to bury a game and buy it thinking it was a good idea!

Interestingly I can only think of a couple of figures I have hunted for more than once but have sold a complete range and recollected it.

So the choices are:

Yes – I have taken up a game, bought all the stuff I needed, lost interest, sold off everything and then taken it up again later.

No – Once I take up something I keep everything until they pry the lead from my cold, dead fingers.

Zardoz – whatever that means

Add in:

I recognize this happens as there is a circuit of popularity in the group – i.e. we go through a cycle of about 5 periods as we burn out on one and go to the next

It is when I'm playing marbles.
-Kle.

I am also doing this… I gave away all my Eldar years ago, and now I'm picking up the same 2nd/3rd Edition Orks that I used to play my first game with (borrowed it from my friend's brother originally).

Yes – But I hardly never sell anything off. It just gets packed away.

I'd say more hexagonal.

I sold some stuff once and regretted it ever since.

Yes, I have subsequently bought most of it back again.

So (in general) " Once I take up something I keep everything until they pry the lead from my cold, dead fingers. " sounds about right.

You can always use the figures for something else and the rules make entertaining period reading.

Not circular in the way the OP describes.

For the most part, I have not bought into games that I later regret. I keep the rules and figures even when my interest wanes. I expect my enthusiasm to return.

No.

There are games I keep coming back to every half-decade or so (warhammer 40k) but I rarely sell off figures that I later regret, and I almost never rebuy.

Yes but no longer.

For me it is more a situation of "I did not get the items I wanted at the time they were available". Cases in point:

I got out of BattleTech when I joined the military, only to return once I had gotten out. Surprise, FASA had folded, the Unseen were a reality, and I went a bit overboard in trying to regain my lost ground…at the top of the bubble, as it was. Now, my interest has waned considerably, so I have stopped buying anything new over the last few years. I have not sold anything, but I wonder if in years to come I'll wish I had stayed current?

I dearly love the Renegade Legion universe and was able to procure *nearly* everything for a reasonable price that I had been unable to afford as a comparative youngster. But I passed up the chance for the Leviathans sourcebook, and have semi-regretted it ever since (not only is it hard to find, when it does appear, the cost is outrageous).

One of my first-purchased wargames was Ogre/GEV. I have everything I need, but never got the actual-Ogre models when they were still available a few years ago. Now, I *do* regret that decision to not get a single Mark I, II, IV, V, and Dopp. Excepting Combine HVYs and SHVYs, everything else can be found reasonably easily and/or cheaply (or proxies, such as Zandris IV or whatever can be easily substituted).

Yes -- But I don't ditch the game.
It just collects dust til I get back to it.

I have what I all the "wheel O interest". I guess that is circular.

I've bought and sold the Grenadier Fantasy Warriors (now EM4) about three times

I just recently did the circular thang with Battletech. I was a huge Battletech fan 20 years ago and played it more than anything I was playing then and since. When I got out I sold everything I had including several nicely painted 'mechs. Just this past week I played it again at a convention and found I enjoy it now as much as all those years ago. I picked up the 25th anniversary set (great deal by the way) and now plan to play it regularly once again. One of the neat things about how its handled is that you can play different eras in the Battletech timeline and if you have left it you can pick up where you left off with the 'mechs you already have. The rules also have not changed all that much and so picking it up again (even after 20 years) was easy.

No. When things come back around, they are always different, so its really a new thing emerging rather than an old thing coming around. My gaming is not circular. My gamers, however …

How people can sell figures I cannot understand. Children, sure, so much easier to replace, and much more fun than painting.

Yep. Recycling through a couple of games has convinced me against selling off chunks of the lead pile; especially with the price of 40K and Warmachine. So these days it's 'sit on it 'til it's back in fashion'.

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Warren B.
minisculpture.co.uk

"No – Once I take up something I keep everything until they pry the lead from my cold, dead fingers."

Knowing my interests are circular, I don't sell stuff since I usually return to said game/period eventually. This year I've finally started to sell stuff. Some things I have not used or even looked at since HS or college, so I doubt I will ever get back to them. (And in a few cases, there's better available now. Why waste time painting Heritage minis from 1982, for example. Though I doubt there's much of a secondary market for those figs.)

Huh?????????????????
meh.

Oh yes.

And it needs more boobies.