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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Koloth" data-source="post: 9681037" data-attributes="member: 6706231">Invest in stuff to improve gaming ergonomics.  If you host, replace those metal folding chairs and hard wood dining room chairs with more comfortable chairs.  If gaming causes pain, you will game less.  Better lighting - this is very person dependent.  Ask your group before making expensive changes.  More isn't always better.  Indirect may be better.  Replace those hard to read dice with easy to read dice.  Consider gifting your old dice to someone younger/poorer then you.  Paint your minis(or hire it done).  One unpainted gray/white mini looks like all the other unpainted minis.  Don't be the one that plans a whole wonderful attack sequence only to discover you just planned to kill your party's unpainted cleric instead of the nearby unpainted ogre because they all looked like fuzzy gray blobs across the table.  If you travel to games, invest in better luggage for carrying your gaming stuff.  Carry a padded seat cushion for the host's folding metal chairs.  Even if you prefer books over pdfs, consider switching to pdfs for those books you rarely need but still want to be able to access.  Bonus points for pdfs is most readers allow zooming in to allow easier reading.  Consider investing in a pair of gaming glasses that has the prime focal length the distance from your chair to the center of the gaming map.  You just have to tell the optometrist what that distance is.  They won't be good for driving as long distance stuff will now be fuzzy but for gaming they will be a big improvement over that thin middle band of a tri-focal.  Helps avoid the attack the cleric issue mentioned above.   For online gaming, buy a bigger monitor.  That bargain 19" monitor is fine for the quick message or such but a larger good quality 24+" monitor lets you zoom in on the map better.  A 16:10 ratio is often better then the more common 16:9 ratio(more vertical space).  Invest in a good microphone and speakers/headset.  If you are struggling to hear each other, it won't be a fun session.  Consider a dual monitor setup.  Map on one, the other stuff on the 2nd one.  Again, a comfortable chair.A more morbid concern.  If you have a bunch of gaming stuff and your family/relatives don't game, be sure to list your stuff and mention it in your will.  Otherwise, your collection of hundreds or thousands of dollars of gaming stuff will likely be tossed in the trash by grieving relatives.</blockquote>

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