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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doc_Klueless" data-source="post: 1478992" data-attributes="member: 261">My spending on RPGs has definitely dropped. Dramatically. Where I used to buy 2-4 books a month, I now buy 1 book in 2-3 months. This may change with the advent of GURPS 4e, which I'm very much planning to buy. My decline in spending is due to several reasons:1) Once I figured out what else I could be buying with that money, I was shocked. Hey, I was shelling out $100-$200+ a month on that stuff, which, while fun, wasn't particularly more fun that some of my other hobbies.2) Not a lot has come out that has interested me. Complete Warrior was interesting, but has been sitting on my shelf without a whole lot of use to justify the expense on my part. While it did add to my IRC game with my old buddies back "home," the game was just as rich when I didn't have it, if that makes sense.3) Several games (such as the aforementioned GURPS 4e) have latched on to my short attention span and I'm saving up some cash to blooooow on them.4) I don't play as often as I used to. This is due to having moved across country from Texas and my old home, my new career as an ICU nurse suck-suck-suuuuuuuucking up my free time, family time with my daughter and her mom, and runnin' about discovering this new world called Los Angeles and the surrounding area.5) I'm picking up the D&D minies and, really, for the price of one RPG book, I can pick up LOTS of minis off the websites that sell them separately. So, even with a boost in money going out in that direction, I still spend a lot less on gaming stuff. Beside, the minis game that comes with the miniatures is a lot of fun too and you can easily play it by email. All it takes is for all the players to have the same minis (or tokens to represent those minis), a digital camera (to snap a shot of your moves that turn), and MSPaint that comes with Windows. (I only spent $50 last month on RPG stuff and it was the minis. Probably won't spend any money on RPG stuff this month).6) I'm old and need my rest, so I tend to nap more than I used to which cuts into my RPG readin' and plannin' time, so the books I do have last me a lot longer.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /></blockquote>

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