How much $ per month do you spend on Gaming?

[karlindel]

I'm in the $76-100 range. I have DDI, ENWorld, and Paizo subscriptions (Adventure Path, Campaign Setting, Player Companion, Modules, Planet Stories, and Pathfinder Tales). I also pick up some 4e books. I also pick up the occasional D&D minis booster (less often lately as my collection is quite large), 4e books, books and pdfs when they go on sale (picked up a lot of Warhammer 2e, Champions 5th, and 33/3.5e/OGL stuff that way), and new RPGs that looks interesting (most recently Dresden Files).

I do often lament that I have more gaming material than I have time to use. Still, it's nice to have the options, and I do frequently grab something off the shelf that I haven't read and enjoy reading through them.

 

[Mercurius]

I teeter around $100 but voted for $76-100 as I tend to binge and purge; some months I spend $200, others <$50. I have gone years of spending very little, but over the last couple it has been just under $100, I think. After a total binge of Reaper and Rackham Confrontation miniatures a couple years ago, I barely buy minis, except for the occasional metal piece that looks purty or for a particular encounter.

That $100 is broken up into $10ish for subscriptions, usually $20-40 on new WotC books, and about $50 on miscellaneous RPGs or used stuff on Ebay.

 

[Dverge]

Maybe 20-50 a month. Is it just me or do RPG's seem much dryer than a decade ago? I mean that they had extraneous interesting bits. That seems to have disappeared. For all that the current books have better print quality and better formatting, they read as very shallow.

 

[diaglo]

In the 90's, I was spending about $200 a month, or more.

In the 70s i was spending about 10-15 per month on gaming. i thot that was a lot of money back then.

in the 80s i was spending about 30-50 per month

in the 90s i was spending about 200-300 per month depending on the month

2000-2006 i was easily spending 4k per year.

since WotC pulled licenses i am spending less. none of it on Hasbro.

 

[Sunseeker]

2000-2006 i was easily spending 4k per year.

since WotC pulled licenses i am spending less. none of it on Hasbro.

If I may be so bold, what exactly were you spending nearly $350 a month ON?

 

[Agamon]

Zippo. These days, I've got so much stuff, a lot of which still hasn't even been used, I don't need the new shiny.

However, if we broaden the definition of gaming beyond RPGs, probably about $100 to $200.

 

[HeavensThunderHammer]

After all the results have been tabulated, I'm still a bit surprised that my monthly expenditure is a bit on the high side, at least as far as EN world users go.

 

[Khairn]

I used to spend well over $150 a month. But these days I average between $15 and $25. And thats usually for pdf's. If I like the pdf, I'll usually buy the dead tree version the next month.

 

[Stormonu]

In the 70s i was spending about 10-15 per month on gaming. i thot that was a lot of money back then.

in the 80s i was spending about 30-50 per month

in the 90s i was spending about 200-300 per month depending on the month

2000-2006 i was easily spending 4k per year.

since WotC pulled licenses i am spending less. none of it on Hasbro.

Hmm...that got me checking. Apparently, from 2000 - 2008, I spent over $8,700 on books alone (not counting my Dragon & Dungeon sub, e-tools, PDFs or the 1,000+ minis I own). That's ~$100 a month, though it's been a lot of 3rd party stuff mixed with WotC's books (which, doing some filtering on my database, comes to about $22/month for WotC - again, not counting magazine subscriptions or miniatures).

Since 4E back in 2008, WotC's made about $300 off me (more than I thought, actually). That comes to about $12.50 a month - that's a real surprise to me considering how little I own of 4E (PHB1-3, MM1-3, DMG, AV, Standing Stone, Red Box). Of course, I've stop buying minis and don't have a DDI sub, so it's an even more substantial drop that it initially appears.

I guess I ought to go back and figure out how many cases of D&D minis I've bought?

 

[crazy_cat]

$76-100'ish for me.

Paizo subscriptions (AP, RPG, and Settings - although I'll be dropping RPG and Settings in the new year) and some occasional Dark Heresy books, and then occasional bargain minis (WH40K and DDM) and old AD&D stuff off ebay.