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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8254694" data-attributes="member: 86653">RPGs are not a cheap hobby. A month of Netflix is $9. You can watch as much as you like in that month. Most months are about 30-days long. Eight hours to sleep. Forty hours of work a week. That leaves you about 320 hours of free time a month. So a potential of 320 hours of entertainment for $9. Not practical, but people brag about binging hundreds of hours of shows a month, so clearly possible. Unless you are using someone else’s books, you’ll need at least the PHB, which retails for $50. In a month of being an RPG hobbyist you might, if you’re really lucky, get to play in four 4-6 hour games. More likely is one 4-6 hour game a month. Far, far more likely is zero games. While you have the same potential 320 hours of entertainment, it’s not practical you’ll actually get anywhere near that and the buy in is 5.5 times higher. So say an average of 5-hour games, you’re looking at $50 for 20 hours of fun, 5 hours of fun, or zero hours of fun. Most people are notoriously broke. They just pretend to not be. Especially working class people. You’ve got the cause and effect backwards. So demonstrate it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 8254694, member: 86653"] RPGs are not a cheap hobby. A month of Netflix is $9. You can watch as much as you like in that month. Most months are about 30-days long. Eight hours to sleep. Forty hours of work a week. That leaves you about 320 hours of free time a month. So a potential of 320 hours of entertainment for $9. Not practical, but people brag about binging hundreds of hours of shows a month, so clearly possible. Unless you are using someone else’s books, you’ll need at least the PHB, which retails for $50. In a month of being an RPG hobbyist you might, if you’re really lucky, get to play in four 4-6 hour games. More likely is one 4-6 hour game a month. Far, far more likely is zero games. While you have the same potential 320 hours of entertainment, it’s not practical you’ll actually get anywhere near that and the buy in is 5.5 times higher. So say an average of 5-hour games, you’re looking at $50 for 20 hours of fun, 5 hours of fun, or zero hours of fun. Most people are notoriously broke. They just pretend to not be. Especially working class people. You’ve got the cause and effect backwards. So demonstrate it. [/QUOTE]

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