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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8993634" data-attributes="member: 4937">Yes, and no.  When I was in high school we pitched in money for pizza, and then people voluntarily brought snacks to share like 2-liter Dr. Peppers and bags of cheddar sun chips.  Because the DM worked harder than everyone else and had spent the majority of the required to play money, DMs did not have to chip in for the pizza.  All the costs of the game were born by the GM.I've been through several groups since then but my current group (when we met, we are mostly remote since the pandemic in part because we no longer all work at the same location) took turns buying food for the group.  The GM is not exempt.  The cost of the game is largely born by the GM, but that said, several of my players are big into 3D printing and I've been gifted with several lovely handmade items over the years as aids to play.  I think that it's very hard to collectively own a book.  That involves more infrastructure than private ownership because now you need some sort of public library.  I can imagine us doing something like that with pdfs maybe, but in point of fact we haven't done that.  The only digital things in our public library are things that we've made ourselves, and even that was mostly relevant back when we were playing 3e D&D under my house rules which were both extensive, expanding, and evolving over the years we played.</blockquote>