NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Readerbreeder" data-source="post: 8127237" data-attributes="member: 27602">I hope that no one takes this article (and I realize that no one, up to this point, has done so) and interprets it as if the title is "You're not a real gamer until..."  I am unlikely to ever be able to afford a bespoke gaming table, my groups and I have never really been into terrain or minis (butcher paper maps and tokens served), and one of the things that I've always loved about the hobby is that you don't have put a ton of money into it just to get started.  When I first began playing D&D, we took my brand-new AD&D Player's Handbook and my friend's (permanently borrowed from a cousin) Moldvay B/X set and went to town.  I guess my point is that if you're having fun, you're doing it right.  All of the "gamer bling" is great (I'm a massive dice hoarder myself), and if you can and want to use any of the tools in the article, I'm all for it (if I could ever fit it into my house and budget, I would love a dedicated gaming table).  But as I have seen over the last 40 years or so the increasing commercialization and monetization of the hobby (and yes, this goes back to printed, rather than DIY, character sheets), I just worry sometimes that too many of the people watching Critical Role and wanting to get into the hobby are going to think you need to be doing it that way to be doing it right, or at all.I don't know, maybe I just need to tell the whippersnappers that I keep imagining are on my lawn, telling me I'm too old for this now, to get off.</blockquote>

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