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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6270414" data-attributes="member: 2067">Well, what's the goal? The cheapest possible decent RPG experience, or a &quot;good value&quot;?If you're looking for the cheapest RPG experience, I wouldn't go to D&amp;D. D&amp;D is kind of a bigger-budget, bigger-production-value, mass-market thing. It's the 3-D glasses and the marketing tie-ins. Free don't pay for James Wyatt's kids' college. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I still think it seems like a damn god value, but that doesn't mean there aren't cheaper things out there.Other RPGs hit a smaller audience. Which means that finding players for those in a given local area tends to be tougher. And extended campaigns are less common. If you've got a flexible local group ready and willing to try a lot of different RPGs that they play for a year, then, yeah $0-20 is a HUGE value. If you've got a group that can handle a bunch of indie games, D&amp;D does becomes a pricy alternative to most indie games. That group is a pretty rare thing, though. Like a group of cinephiles patronizing old theaters in LA going to free showings of experimental films from local artists. For me, 5eD&amp;D seems like a pretty good value (even if it's not the cheapest possible value). Other games can also be good values, of course.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6270414, member: 2067"] Well, what's the goal? The cheapest possible decent RPG experience, or a "good value"? If you're looking for the cheapest RPG experience, I wouldn't go to D&D. D&D is kind of a bigger-budget, bigger-production-value, mass-market thing. It's the 3-D glasses and the marketing tie-ins. Free don't pay for James Wyatt's kids' college. ;) I still think it seems like a damn god value, but that doesn't mean there aren't cheaper things out there. Other RPGs hit a smaller audience. Which means that finding players for those in a given local area tends to be tougher. And extended campaigns are less common. If you've got a flexible local group ready and willing to try a lot of different RPGs that they play for a year, then, yeah $0-20 is a HUGE value. If you've got a group that can handle a bunch of indie games, D&D does becomes a pricy alternative to most indie games. That group is a pretty rare thing, though. Like a group of cinephiles patronizing old theaters in LA going to free showings of experimental films from local artists. For me, 5eD&D seems like a pretty good value (even if it's not the cheapest possible value). Other games can also be good values, of course. [/QUOTE]

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