Anyone else finding their TTRPG spending going down for lack of interest/need?

Ralif Redhammer · Apr 24, 2019

Looking forward to it! And yeah, the hotel blocks sold out super-fast. Still managed to get a good on-site room, though.

darjr said:
GaryCon is a blast! It’s also growing fast. I wouldn’t be surprised if they put a cap on attendance.

Flexor the Mighty! · Apr 24, 2019

darjr said:
GaryCon is a blast! It’s also growing fast. I wouldn’t be surprised if they put a cap on attendance.

Also GameHoleCon is awesome and is one of the big three or four bucket list cons in my humble opinion.

I think the edition treadmill fatigue hits a lot of folks. Which makes 5es continued blockbuster growth even more amazing.

There is a limit on tickets, so its already capped. Its nearly max capacity for the venue based on what I saw this year. A lot of fun, and I have a room for next year but I'm not sure I'll be going. its a lot of money when its all said and done and that could go to another good trip.

Immortal Sun · Apr 24, 2019

Eh, I go through this in waves. One moment I'll be all hot to buy whatever I can get my hands on, the next I'll be completely indifferent.

C'est la vie.

jasper · Apr 24, 2019

So far this year my cost has been 798.13. Of that 574.13 was on Save vs Hunger earlier this month. My wife attended and generally chose the $12 plus a plate dinning out options. I am still setting money aside for DragonCon. And Magic City Comic Con is up in the air now.
I have not purchase any Kickstarter stuff. The documentaries look interesting.

MNblockhead · Apr 24, 2019

Well, despite what I wrote in my original post, I just did an impulse purchase of Heroes of Balder's Gate: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showth...venture-From-Bioware-s-Baldur-s-Gate-Designer

Hussar · Apr 24, 2019

Funnily enough, I've spent more on 5e than on 4e and 3.5e. My Fantasy grounds sub alone with the core books, came in about 250 bucks, plus a couple of modules, which I haven't bought in paper. Toss in my Thule Kickstarter and yeah, I'm pretty steadily buying.

OTOH, since the beginning of 3e, my gaming budget is tiny compared with what it was in 2e. I just realized way back then that I was buying books to gather dust on my shelf and I refuse to do that anymore.

If I'm not going to use almost the whole book, I won't buy it.

Which means WotC's new approach is perfectly tailored for me.

Baron Von Mandrick · Apr 25, 2019

Even as little as I make now, it's still more than I made as a pre-teen and teenager, so I spend more now than I did back then. That being said, I go through periods where I buy a ton and periods where I don't buy anything.

The thing that scares me is that I occasionally buy something now that I know I can't possibly use until months later if ever, but I have that itch, and I have to scratch it.

psiconauta_retro · Apr 27, 2019

DMMike said:
I believe that was Poseidon giving you a chance to find RPG joy in a new way. Ever tried writing?

I have the fantasy about writing my own rpg but I dont have any good ideas yet, when I have tried I end up stealing ideas from here and there, and end up with nothing remotely fresh. In other threads it was mentioned that a good start is to write adventures first, which are shorter and simpler, so I made a draft but havent even playtested yet.

Maybe Poseidon is trying to point me in the right direction...

Nytmare · Apr 28, 2019

I am in the following boat:

Need to Play Games - Increasing

Number of Other Commitments - Increasing

Available Time - Decreasing

Amount of Crap I Buy That Never Has a Chance to Hit the Table - Increasing

Friends Who Are in the Same Exact Boat - Increasing

Mostly we're all looking forward to when we're able to retire (never) so that we can get back to gaming on a regular schedule.