peterx | 04 Mar 2016 4:12 p.m. PST |
Over the years, how many games, rules or eras have you stopped playing and why? a) 1 or less b) 2 to 5 c) 5 to 10 d) 10 to 15 e) 15 to 20 f) 20 or more g) untold games beyond counting h) I have never stopped playing a game or ruleset. i) I don't play games, I just paint and collect miniatures. j) None of the above. |
Winston Smith | 04 Mar 2016 4:27 p.m. PST |
I had many. I am down to three. I got a few games out of the projects I sold off, but not enough to keep them. Ancients are different. I played them for a long time but just drifted away. |
Saber6 | 04 Mar 2016 4:28 p.m. PST |
only a couple, but usually because I found better rules for the period. |
Cosmic Reset | 04 Mar 2016 4:44 p.m. PST |
My first inclination was to say more than I can count, but with respect to miniatures, it is actually very few. I quit playing ancients completely. That is the only period that I have really played and dropped. There are some rules that I played and sold, but remarkably few. Mostly, I've sold rules and/or miniatures that never got to the table top. So somewhere between "b" and "c" above. |
Virtualscratchbuilder | 04 Mar 2016 4:44 p.m. PST |
Does buying and never playing count as starting? |
cavcrazy | 04 Mar 2016 4:50 p.m. PST |
I have never stopped playing a game, it is just that some games are played more often than others. |
Frederick | 04 Mar 2016 4:55 p.m. PST |
Hmmm – probably about 5, which is mostly not using a specific rule set because I found one I like better This being over 30 years |
etotheipi | 04 Mar 2016 5:08 p.m. PST |
I was going to say one, but I didn't stop playing it. I didn't start playing the next revision of it. I still play the new version … you know … the one that doesn't suck. I have played a large number of miniature games a few times at conventions, but I don't consider myself to have "started" playing them. |
Ceterman | 04 Mar 2016 5:20 p.m. PST |
I second Cavcrazy. Exactly. |
D6 Junkie | 04 Mar 2016 6:06 p.m. PST |
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kallman | 04 Mar 2016 6:16 p.m. PST |
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Rich Bliss | 04 Mar 2016 6:27 p.m. PST |
several WRG 7th because it gave me a head ache The Sword and the Flame because of the way it treats the Natives Soldiers Companion because I needed way to many figures Jagdpanther because the time scale doesn't work |
jurgenation | 04 Mar 2016 6:46 p.m. PST |
I have gamed more periods. |
KSmyth | 04 Mar 2016 6:48 p.m. PST |
Like Irishserb, I have seen the light and have given up ancients entirely, though I continue to love and play games that include the Hundred Years War. Ancients, or anything pre 1337 is dead to me. Though I can be persuaded to haul out my many DBA armies from time to time. |
Doctor X | 04 Mar 2016 7:28 p.m. PST |
I can't think of anything. I guess I'm a glutton for punishment. |
Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut | 04 Mar 2016 8:02 p.m. PST |
I have wholly stopped playing all Games Workshop games excepting GorkaMorka, which I haven't since six months after the release of Digganob but still hope to play again some day. I am sure there are others, but I can't recall them. |
Mute Bystander | 04 Mar 2016 8:41 p.m. PST |
Does Ancients count as a single era? Is Medieval a separate item? WW2 land. SFRPGs. FRPGs, except some THW rules edge into RPG Lite… AWI. F&I War. ACW. More rules than I can remember. Moderns land combat. SAW. It is easier to count eras and rules I actually play now. |
peterx | 04 Mar 2016 8:43 p.m. PST |
Although I still have 3 armies for WH40K, I have not played in many many years. I gave up D and D, and all roleplaying games about 34 years ago. I also haven't played OGRE or Battletech in more than a decade. |
Phillius | 04 Mar 2016 10:45 p.m. PST |
There are a few that have been superseded, so I assume they don't count. I have only decided to actually stop playing one, DBR. So that makes me A |
Sudwind | 04 Mar 2016 11:52 p.m. PST |
I have pretty much quit playing DBA…also, I no longer enjoy Sword and the Flame. After one game of Maurice, I have no desire to play those rules or anything similar. |
Martin Rapier | 05 Mar 2016 12:45 a.m. PST |
I play more periods than I ever have done. I have dropped more sets of rules than I can count. |
Chuckaroobob | 05 Mar 2016 5:11 a.m. PST |
B: The only rules I've stopped playing are all GW, the first one ever was Battlefleet (ptoi!) Gothic. Yes, anytime this game is mentioned spitting is required. Also gave up on War$ Fantasy and 40K. Most people don't realize, but the 40K does not refer to a calendar, its how many dollars GW expects you to spend. |
Dynaman8789 | 05 Mar 2016 6:37 a.m. PST |
None really, there are an quite a few I played once or twice and would never play again but that is more a case of giving it a try and deciding I didn't like it. There are plenty I am not playing currently but would do so again as well. |
vtsaogames | 05 Mar 2016 8:11 a.m. PST |
WRG ancient Two home brew black powder sets black powder 1776 guns of liberty Napoleonique Frappe Might of arms Grand Armee A number of others |
Weasel | 05 Mar 2016 9:44 a.m. PST |
I mean, there's a lot of games I'd play again if the chance came up but I haven't played in forever. We don't play Warmaster any longer and I think the tastes of the group grew away from it. That's probably the main one. If we played something once, and then havent done it again, I don't really count that. |
TheBeast | 05 Mar 2016 12:08 p.m. PST |
The question is a bit tricky to me, same as for Weasal. Darn few I've liked and never will play again, quite a few I tried once and won't again. The latter seem like 'didn't quit, never really started…' Doug |
21eRegt | 05 Mar 2016 1:37 p.m. PST |
Oh golly, maybe "C" in 45 years of gaming. Almost always because the fell out of favor, like WRG Ancients, or I moved away from the group enthusiastically playing them like "Broadsword." Don't know that I've ever gotten sick enough of a game system to stop playing it, and certainly not the period. |
ubercommando | 05 Mar 2016 1:57 p.m. PST |
There are 3 games which I played only because they were popular at clubs I was involved with at the time. Now that I no longer attend them, I have said "never again". They are Rapid Fire, Napoleon's Battles and 4th edition D&D. Other games, some clunky or products from a long gone era, I will play again because I can live with a certain amount of clunkiness or outdated games design if there's the basis of fun or enjoyment. I've never played a game of those three where I haven't ended up frustrated at the game mechanics and lack of enjoyment. |
platypus01au | 05 Mar 2016 2:36 p.m. PST |
It is a hard question. Some games like 6th and 7th WRG ancients and DBM I stopped playing because WRG brought out successor games which I like better. I did stop playing Milgamex Ancient Warfare back in th 80's because i discovered more people played 6th. Others sort of faded away as groups I played with moved on to other projects. Bloodbowl for example. I'll play it again if one of my friends got interested. Others could be rules we tried a couple of times and realised the sucked. Like Trafalgar. Do they count? Cheers, JohnG |