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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 3592701" data-attributes="member: 99">Let's leave the pirating/stealing/infringing conversation for the quarter of a million other threads about that, ok?As for the topic at hand, I don't generally think about it in terms of the cost of books.  Myself and all of my players are at an age and income level where, even if budgets are tight, spending 20-40 bucks for books that we'll use for at least 6-9 months is not that big a deal.  We mostly run homebrew games so there's not that much expense on modules either.Time is the big investment.  There isn't much getting around that though.  And I enjoy my prep time as a GM so that's not too onerous either.  As far as the GM having fun vs. the players having fun, my experience is that I almost always have fun even if some of the players don't.  For that reason I have to keep tabs with the players to make sure they're all getting what they want out of the game.Finally I'll note that the NC Game Day has never had problems getting enough GM's.  We usually have a few games that have to fold because there are not enough players to fill them all.</blockquote>