| Weasel | 07 Sep 2015 2:08 p.m. PST |
When you are buying a game, how much does the author/designers matter? IF you factor it in, when buying games, what is the primary motivator for you? A: They made other games I liked. B: I like their general philosophy on gaming. C: They seem like an expert in the period or topic. D: They seem like a cool person. E: Other factors. |
| Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut | 07 Sep 2015 2:22 p.m. PST |
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| PJ ONeill | 07 Sep 2015 2:23 p.m. PST |
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| Cyrus the Great | 07 Sep 2015 2:46 p.m. PST |
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 Mister Tibbles  | 07 Sep 2015 2:55 p.m. PST |
I've played with a couple well-known designers who turned out to be total jerks. I refuse to buy their games. Ymmv |
 20thmaine | 07 Sep 2015 3:01 p.m. PST |
A and B and a bit of C. Never meet your heroes ! |
 Doms Decals  | 07 Sep 2015 3:20 p.m. PST |
A and B – generally I only buy rules after seeing reviews and ideally getting a look at a display copy, but if Toofatlardies, Peter Pig or Neil Thomas put out something on a period that interests me, I'm pretty likely to just snap it up…. |
| Dynaman8789 | 07 Sep 2015 3:37 p.m. PST |
A and B.
NOT
C – I generally don't know their expertise in the history and if I liked their previous games then I don't care.
D – I have a couple of games that I love whose author I would not care to ever be around. |
| DisasterWargamer | 07 Sep 2015 5:53 p.m. PST |
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| Mute Bystander | 07 Sep 2015 6:15 p.m. PST |
A and/or B All your heroes should be dead so they cannot embarrass you by speaking/doing something insufferably stupid. |
 miniMo | 07 Sep 2015 7:30 p.m. PST |
If I have even a vague interest in a period that Frank Chadwick writes rules for, I'll likely buy it. |
| Meiczyslaw | 07 Sep 2015 8:21 p.m. PST |
All your heroes should be dead so they cannot embarrass you by speaking/doing something insufferably stupid. (Makes note to fake his death after getting a sufficient number of rules to market …) |
| Gunfreak | 08 Sep 2015 5:39 a.m. PST |
"All your heroes should be dead so they cannot embarrass you by speaking/doing something insufferably stupid." I think alot of people growing up in the 80s now regret not killing Tom Cruise, too late now. |
| vtsaogames | 08 Sep 2015 6:42 a.m. PST |
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| Weasel | 08 Sep 2015 7:19 a.m. PST |
Gunfreak – you know, even though he's nuts, I still dig Tom Cruise :) Though I avoid ever watching him outside his movies so that helps. |
| Dynaman8789 | 08 Sep 2015 4:59 p.m. PST |
Tom Cruise has two kinds of movies. First is the competition movies which I can not stand (Top Gun, Cocktail, Days of Boredom) and then his others which are usually very good (Born on the Fourth of July, Minority Report, Rain Man). As for the guy himself, he is a nutter. |
| kodiakblair | 27 Sep 2015 5:33 a.m. PST |
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builds a pond for his campaign.
