What's the most you've ever spent on a single RPG-related item?

[SkredlitheOgre]

~$75 not including shipping for the D20 Call of Cthulhu sourcebook. The downside is that nobody in my group at that time appreciated Lovecraft or any of that stuff, so at the time, I considered it a waste. I've gotten better use out of it, though.

 

[fba827]

most i ever spent on a single rpg item was $30.
(unless you count rpg computer/console games in there too, then the most was $55)

 

[TanithT]

A Wayne Reynolds painting. The original artwork for the cover of the first RPG book I wholly wrote. That set me back four figures, but I don't regret it in the slightest.

It's a nifty bit of art for the wall. Did it actually cost more than your total GenCon package, which should probably be considered under the header of spending money for an RPG-related item? Or would a GenCon bill not count as a single item?

For me it would have to be LARP related costuming and armor. Some of my more expensive pieces have set me back a fair bit. Not quite four digits for any single piece, though. Most likely my custom forged dragon wing bracers and live steel blades by Mayhawke and the Celtic embossed leather fighting jacket from Pendragon are competing for the top spots on my "dear god, you spent HOW much on your hobby????" list.

With your RPG book library and my collection of high end LARP, Rennie and SCA gear, I have no idea which one of us counts as the bigger nerd because they spent more. But you definitely win on the single item front. Either way, we definitely live in Chez Geek.

 

[Shemeska]

It's a nifty bit of art for the wall. Did it actually cost more than your total GenCon package, which should probably be considered under the header of spending money for an RPG-related item? Or would a GenCon bill not count as a single item?

Mind you 'hon, you can veto anything above this in the future.

It was more than my total GenCon bill that year or any other year actually. It was something like $2800 (not including the framing which was a few hundred more later that month).

The most expensive non-artwork RPG-related thing was either the time I got into an unknowing bidding war on Ebay with one of my own players for a mint condition Planescape 'Hellbound: The Blood War' box set. They wanted to get it for me for Xmas. It's like something out of an O'Henry story. Cost me something like 2-300 there.

Now mind you, there are two pieces of artwork that I would go rather high on potentially if I could buy them. But I don't know who owns them in order to make them an offer. That would be either the original artwork for the cover of 'In the Cage: Faces of Sigil' by Robh Ruppel, and the original interior artwork piece from 'Faces of Sigil' by Tony DiTerlizzi for Shemeshka the Marauder. Standing offer if anyone knows who owns either of those two.

 

[DaveMage]

Single item - Ptolus for $120.

Though I did buy a complete DDM minis set for around $200

 

[karlindel]

A trip to New York for Winter Fantasy. Ran about $1500 for flight, shared hotel room, and admission. The airfare alone was more expensive than any actual RPG books or the like I have purchased.

For something closer to an actual RPG Item, a case of D&D miniatures would be the highest at a little over $100.

After that tthe largest single item would be either a yearly DDI Subscription or the 4e Core Set.

 

[megamania]

"Single" item.......


Galactus Heroclix 95.00

Colossal Red Dragon 65.00

World's ;largest Dungeon 60.00

But if a set = a "single" item....

Name the DDM set and I bought 1+ cases of each set....so 200-400 each

and as hinted at.... I built a 30X15ft game room. My "Dungeon" as the wife calls it. That houses comicbooks, DnD, Heroclix and Action Figure collections. There is a reason I work 70+ ghours a week....

 

[wingsandsword]

When I got to go to Gen Con for the full 4 days back in 2005, my travel expenses (food, fuel, lodging ect) totalled around $1000.

As for a single expense, especially something directly used in gaming?

A $275 custom-made wool cloak for larping. I was sick and tired of playing at events in the middle of winter and stalking around forests in freezing temperatures with no period-appropriate winter-weather gear. So, a seamstress I knew made me a full-circle cloak out of heavy blue wool with rabbit fur lining around the shoulders and hood, and full crepe lining through the rest of the cloak with a couple dozen pockets sewn in various places. Became a signature part of my costume (only don't wear it in the middle of summer when it's way too warm) and has been a very handy piece of clothing.

 

[TanithT]

Mind you 'hon, you can veto anything above this in the future.

You have a pretty good saving throw vs. girlfriend veto because you don't fuss much when I populate the dining room with venomous snakes and turn the kitchen into a deer butchering station. Also, I like living in Chez Geek even if we have some variation in our geekdoms. RPG art on the walls = cool.

Now if you spent it on booze and hookers, and you didn't share, then we'd have a problem.

 

[SSquirrel]

Another vote for Ptolus. $10/mo from Feb-July then the last $50 in August made it pretty painless. Worth every penny.