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<blockquote data-quote="theredrobedwizard" data-source="post: 4402008" data-attributes="member: 21340">Wow.&nbsp; People have groups where the players don't even buy their own dice?&nbsp; Wow.&nbsp; Just... wow.For the record, we're playing 4e.&nbsp; We have three couples and four singles in two groups (with some overlap).&nbsp; At this point, everyone has bought the PHB.&nbsp; About half are planning on buying the 4e FR Player's Guide, and all four players with martial characters (out of both groups) are planning on picking up Martial Power.&nbsp; When I informed them about the forthcoming Power Cards, there was a collective &quot;Woo!&quot; shouted round the table.&nbsp; Then again, after totaling up the combined MSRPs of all the gaming books/boxed sets our group owns (not including minis/dice/battle mats/etc), we came up with a figure somewhere around $15,000.&nbsp; This is going back to 1st edition, with an average in our group of 29. [If we included gaming accoutrements, the figure is quite a bit higher; somewhere in the $20k-$25k range.]So, yeah.&nbsp; I really can't fathom the idea of a group of players where only the DM owns books and some people don't even own their own dice.-TRRW(edit: For the record, we all have salaries strictly in the Lower Middle Class range; so it's not like we're all trust-fund kids with too much money.&nbsp; We just don't spend money on booze or cigarettes or drugs or any of the other things that rob us of precious gaming moneys.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="theredrobedwizard, post: 4402008, member: 21340"] Wow. People have groups where the players don't even buy their own dice? Wow. Just... wow. For the record, we're playing 4e. We have three couples and four singles in two groups (with some overlap). At this point, everyone has bought the PHB. About half are planning on buying the 4e FR Player's Guide, and all four players with martial characters (out of both groups) are planning on picking up Martial Power. When I informed them about the forthcoming Power Cards, there was a collective "Woo!" shouted round the table. Then again, after totaling up the combined MSRPs of all the gaming books/boxed sets our group owns (not including minis/dice/battle mats/etc), we came up with a figure somewhere around $15,000. This is going back to 1st edition, with an average in our group of 29. [If we included gaming accoutrements, the figure is quite a bit higher; somewhere in the $20k-$25k range.] So, yeah. I really can't fathom the idea of a group of players where only the DM owns books and some people don't even own their own dice. -TRRW (edit: For the record, we all have salaries strictly in the Lower Middle Class range; so it's not like we're all trust-fund kids with too much money. We just don't spend money on booze or cigarettes or drugs or any of the other things that rob us of precious gaming moneys.) [/QUOTE]

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