I can’t help it, but it is a real thing for me. Some games I ought to like, system wise at least if not the whole caboodle. But something relatively minor just puts me off.
Examples:
Icons - The art and art direction just makes the game seem too childish to play, for me personally, even though the system is pretty robust.
GURPS - I just never got over the decision to use Imperial measures over Metric - especially for Transhuman Space.
Legend of the Five Rings 5E- I just can’t get over the requirement of custom dice.
Prowlers and Paragons - How many potential titles did they choose to reject before they settled on this one?
Doctor Who - Irregular sized supplements.
Fate - The shilling of RPG.Net’s rating chart in their game index. Colored me negative for years.
Tales of The Loop - why did they have to include an American setting alongside the more original Swedish one?
King Arthur Pendragon 5th Edition - Great game.....but.....it has a giant pig on the cover.
Lords of Olympus - Great game.....but.....it has a giant pig as an author.
Space: 1889 - the original copy I bought by mistake was a German translation, not English.
Mutants & Masterminds - my copy arrived in the post with a dent in the spine.
Nobilis 2nd Edition - The book was too big to fit neatly on my bookshelf.
Marvel Supers - Something compels me to feel I can’t buy it without having a DC game also, to counterbalance it. Erm.
Another horror RPG - It would take my total number of horror genre games on my shelf beyond thirteen.
What are your embarrassingly questionable reasons?
Examples:
Icons - The art and art direction just makes the game seem too childish to play, for me personally, even though the system is pretty robust.
GURPS - I just never got over the decision to use Imperial measures over Metric - especially for Transhuman Space.
Legend of the Five Rings 5E- I just can’t get over the requirement of custom dice.
Prowlers and Paragons - How many potential titles did they choose to reject before they settled on this one?
Doctor Who - Irregular sized supplements.
Fate - The shilling of RPG.Net’s rating chart in their game index. Colored me negative for years.
Tales of The Loop - why did they have to include an American setting alongside the more original Swedish one?
King Arthur Pendragon 5th Edition - Great game.....but.....it has a giant pig on the cover.
Lords of Olympus - Great game.....but.....it has a giant pig as an author.
Space: 1889 - the original copy I bought by mistake was a German translation, not English.
Mutants & Masterminds - my copy arrived in the post with a dent in the spine.
Nobilis 2nd Edition - The book was too big to fit neatly on my bookshelf.
Marvel Supers - Something compels me to feel I can’t buy it without having a DC game also, to counterbalance it. Erm.
Another horror RPG - It would take my total number of horror genre games on my shelf beyond thirteen.
What are your embarrassingly questionable reasons?