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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gothmog" data-source="post: 4284315" data-attributes="member: 317">Gaming can be expensive, but only if you want/let it be.  For example, over the last 8 years, I've bought about $1000 of Dwarven Forge stuff.  Sounds like a lot, right?  Consider that I use it almost every gaming session, and I've had probably about 500 gaming sessions during that time (6 hours each, on average), and the cost per hour for my Dwarven Forge stuff is about 33 cents!  Similarly, if I total together all the gaming books I've bought since I was 10 (and I'm 34 now), it fills about 15 6' tall bookshelves, and I have no idea how much money (but like Crothian, I'm guessing something like the price of two cars).  Figure in pewter minis I've bought over the years too, and I know I've spent a lot.  But here's the thing: look at cost per hour, and you realize gaming is CHEAP by comparison to almost every other form of entertainment.  I went to a St Louis Cardinals game a couple weeks ago- $40 per ticket, with 4 tickets for me and my friends (I took one friend who is a rabid fan for his birthday).  Per ticket you're looking at about $13.30 per hour of entertainment, AND I can't go back later and reference the event with anything but my memory.  Dating gets even more ridiculously expensive- depending on your tastes, anywhere from $5-50 per hour!!!Gaming is my largest entertainment expense (I don't know for sure- maybe $5000 per year), but its stuff I'll be using and referencing for years and years, so I don't feel bad about it at all.  So while you might sink a big chunk of change into gaming as a whole, its not an expensive hobby.</blockquote>

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