Professor Murder
Hero
So I am curious.
Disposable income is a resource and being a TTRGP hobbyist is often about managing that resource. I am curious as to how my spending compares to others.
Specifically, I buy RPG books knowing that my real use of them in a game may not exist. I have games in my collection, mostly PDFs, that are for games I honestly can't expect to ever run, while others I may only run a handful of times. Even for games which I actively play, like DnD and CoC, I own books that I expect to never use more than a handful of pages of in any meaningful way.
So why do I buy them? Two fold.
1) I buy books to read them, for me. I do homebrewing and I benefit from reading materials and taking in new ideas and approaches, even if I am not going to use them directly.
2) I want to support my hobby. This matters more for small publishers and kickstarters but also most content in charity bundles I pick up. I vote with my dollar.
What about you? Do you only buy materials you intend to use at your table? Do you buy materials just to read or just to push the hobby in directions you appreciate?
Disposable income is a resource and being a TTRGP hobbyist is often about managing that resource. I am curious as to how my spending compares to others.
Specifically, I buy RPG books knowing that my real use of them in a game may not exist. I have games in my collection, mostly PDFs, that are for games I honestly can't expect to ever run, while others I may only run a handful of times. Even for games which I actively play, like DnD and CoC, I own books that I expect to never use more than a handful of pages of in any meaningful way.
So why do I buy them? Two fold.
1) I buy books to read them, for me. I do homebrewing and I benefit from reading materials and taking in new ideas and approaches, even if I am not going to use them directly.
2) I want to support my hobby. This matters more for small publishers and kickstarters but also most content in charity bundles I pick up. I vote with my dollar.
What about you? Do you only buy materials you intend to use at your table? Do you buy materials just to read or just to push the hobby in directions you appreciate?