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<blockquote data-quote="CharlesRyan" data-source="post: 3663136" data-attributes="member: 5265"><p>Sounds to me like your price ratio is great! If you're reading and enjoying them, then it's money well spent.</p><p></p><p>I've never bought into the "20 minutes of fun" theory. When I sit down for a 4-hour RPG session, I have 4 hours of fun. Sure, the "I get to trash a monster" moments might only be 20 minutes of that, but the rest of the time--imagining a fantastic setting, arguing over tactics, watching another player making a critical roll, enjoying the tension while the wizard's player looks up the finer points of a spell to see if it can save our bacon, even just shooting the <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />--it's all FUN. Add to that a couple hours of fun outside the game session--talking and laughing about the last session, planning for the next one, leveling a character, posting on ENworld--and the RPG funness just goes on.</p><p></p><p>Why define the value of the activity so narrowly? Even just reading the books (and I have a <em>lot</em> of RPG books that have never been played, only read) is part of the experience and part of the fun, and shouldn't be counted out of their value.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CharlesRyan, post: 3663136, member: 5265"] Sounds to me like your price ratio is great! If you're reading and enjoying them, then it's money well spent. I've never bought into the "20 minutes of fun" theory. When I sit down for a 4-hour RPG session, I have 4 hours of fun. Sure, the "I get to trash a monster" moments might only be 20 minutes of that, but the rest of the time--imagining a fantastic setting, arguing over tactics, watching another player making a critical roll, enjoying the tension while the wizard's player looks up the finer points of a spell to see if it can save our bacon, even just shooting the :):):):)--it's all FUN. Add to that a couple hours of fun outside the game session--talking and laughing about the last session, planning for the next one, leveling a character, posting on ENworld--and the RPG funness just goes on. Why define the value of the activity so narrowly? Even just reading the books (and I have a [I]lot[/I] of RPG books that have never been played, only read) is part of the experience and part of the fun, and shouldn't be counted out of their value. [/QUOTE]
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