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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EricNoah" data-source="post: 2430272" data-attributes="member: 4">Well let me see if I can answer my own questions...... how much free time do you have (is it enough, just right, too much)?I definitely have enough.  I work normal business hours and I don't have to take my job home with me, plus as a teacher I have part or all of the summer off. Compared to any other person I game with I have too much.  No one else in any of my groups has as much free time as I do.  In fact, they have less time to game in the summer, while I have more, which makes gaming less frequent when I have the most time!  Still, I can't complain -- or I'll receive a severe beating from Mrs. Noah. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />A related question, I suppose, would be ... would you rather have more money or more free time (than you do right now)?  And right now I'd have to say it's perfectly balanced.  Enough money to live comfortably, and plenty of free time.  I value my free time more than money, in general.... how much do you spend on RPGs?I would estimate $600 a year though it might be quite a bit more than that.   ... are RPG products overpriced?The only overpriced product is one that I don't use.  Unfortunately that ends up being a fair number of them.  I think I've said it elsewhere -- if I want the product (I'm sure I'm going to use it), then price is (practically) no barrier; conversely, if I'm pretty sure I'm not going to use it, then even free is too much to spend on acquiring it, storing it, keeping track of it, etc.  ... how valuable is your RPG time as compared to your other off time?My 'actually playing RPGs time' is very valuable to me.  I spend a lot of time on RPGs -- the majority on reading/idea gathering/online discussion; a smaller amount of time on actual prep (though my prep often involves hours of simply mulling things over with no seeming progress, then sudden bursts of writing); and an even smaller amount of time actually playing.  I have other hobbies (exercise, reading) and I'm married so maintaining/participating in/enjoying that relationship is the true center of my life, but with no kids and no other hobby that compares to RPGs (in terms of time spent, money spent, effort expended, pleasure received), the payoff -- actually playing -- is one of the most precious things to me.</blockquote>

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