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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 9026383" data-attributes="member: 87792">And the other part of the buying argument is that by the standards of almost literally any other hobby TTRGs cost almost nothing.I mean how much do you actually need to spend? $10 will get you about five sets of dice. The PHB on Amazon is currently $26. You only need one for the table. Beyond that if you're economising you don't want a flipmat but a pad of grid paper; $4 for 100 sheets on Amazon. You don't need a DMG, and there are enough monsters free online that you don't need a MM.That's $40. For an entire table of five people for at least an entire campaign. This isn't the literal cheapest hobby in the world at the low end; a basketball or soccer ball is about $20 from Amazon (although clothing damage might push that up) and some things like singing are actually free. Does this mean that you can't spend more? I took at least £200 of kit to run a session earlier today (mostly because I have a folder full of Skinny Minis; for a DM who travels to a session a folder full of good quality standees is amazing) and one of the newbies I was teaching had turned into a dice goblin after the first session. But if you are short of money one of the advantages TTRPGs have is that the minimum cost is very very low. So talking about groups with disposable income really misses one of the advantages TTRPGs have.</blockquote>