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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 8137902" data-attributes="member: 6716779">It's cost plus time plus social. DMs have to do prep work.  Personally I think it's main competition for buck us video games.  Consoles not cheap as such but it's something you might get anyway. We use ours more as an entertainment center than video games.  Much like a PC and internet a lot of people going to have it anyway.   Then you buy the books and often don't end up using them that much. Not a big deal for me as I like collecting.  Then the time things come into play and you have spent hundreds of dollars on stuff you don't end up using much if at all. That may not apply to me as I'll make time but I suspect a few casuals have bought a PHB used it once or twice and that's the end of it. They have to find a group and then match up schedules or they're on call or don't have fixed hours.  When I run I have a fixed time. We are playing on this time and date every week. I expect you to turn up 75% of the time if you can't (50% or less) wrong group for you.  Usually replace players at that point espicially if you have more than one unreliable player.  Best case scenario you play with reliable friends and live in the USA. Haven't had a reliable group of friends for around a decade.</blockquote>