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<blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9272217" data-attributes="member: 7026594"><p>Yup. Every one of those historical wargamers I mentioned who I've ever met at a store was a more casual player than the tournament Warhammer crowd I usually played with. Easygoing and chill.</p><p></p><p>But fielding an attractive (and often historically accurate, in terms of uniform colors and markings) force was a core part of their hobby, so to them showing up for a casual game with unpainted units would be like a showing up to a fancy dinner with a stained t-shirt on, or to a casual hockey game with no skates. A big part of why they're THERE is how cool everything looks on the table, though they're often super casual about the game play and who wins or loses.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>We want to be sensitive to folks who are genuinely feeling economically pinched. But...</p><p>1. It's still a discretionary hobby.</p><p>2. IME nearly every game can be bought cheaper (and some cases free!), whether that's by getting it in PDF for indie/OSR games, or discounted on Amazon for bigger publishers like WotC.</p><p>3. Half the complaints about price I've ever seen are clearly from people who haven't bothered to pull up an <a href="https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm" target="_blank">inflation calculator.</a></p><p></p><p>The AD&D 1E DMG was $13 in 1979. $13 in November 1979 is the equivalent of $52.83 today.</p><p></p><p>When you include discounters like Amazon, D&D is cheaper today than it ever has been. And that's not even accounting for the <a href="https://media.wizards.com/2018/dnd/downloads/DnD_BasicRules_2018.pdf" target="_blank">5E Basic rules being a free PDF</a>, or various retroclone and OSR games (like <a href="https://www.basicfantasy.org/downloads.html" target="_blank">BFRPG </a>or <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/196352/The-Nightmares-Underneath-Free-Edition" target="_blank">The Nightmares Underneath</a>) which are available for free download. Or the ability to access most of the rules just using D&D Beyond or an SRD. (and <a href="https://oldschoolessentials.necroticgnome.com/srd/index.php/Main_Page" target="_blank">some retroclones </a>that way too)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mannahnin, post: 9272217, member: 7026594"] Yup. Every one of those historical wargamers I mentioned who I've ever met at a store was a more casual player than the tournament Warhammer crowd I usually played with. Easygoing and chill. But fielding an attractive (and often historically accurate, in terms of uniform colors and markings) force was a core part of their hobby, so to them showing up for a casual game with unpainted units would be like a showing up to a fancy dinner with a stained t-shirt on, or to a casual hockey game with no skates. A big part of why they're THERE is how cool everything looks on the table, though they're often super casual about the game play and who wins or loses. We want to be sensitive to folks who are genuinely feeling economically pinched. But... 1. It's still a discretionary hobby. 2. IME nearly every game can be bought cheaper (and some cases free!), whether that's by getting it in PDF for indie/OSR games, or discounted on Amazon for bigger publishers like WotC. 3. Half the complaints about price I've ever seen are clearly from people who haven't bothered to pull up an [URL='https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm']inflation calculator.[/URL] The AD&D 1E DMG was $13 in 1979. $13 in November 1979 is the equivalent of $52.83 today. When you include discounters like Amazon, D&D is cheaper today than it ever has been. And that's not even accounting for the [URL='https://media.wizards.com/2018/dnd/downloads/DnD_BasicRules_2018.pdf']5E Basic rules being a free PDF[/URL], or various retroclone and OSR games (like [URL='https://www.basicfantasy.org/downloads.html']BFRPG [/URL]or [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/196352/The-Nightmares-Underneath-Free-Edition']The Nightmares Underneath[/URL]) which are available for free download. Or the ability to access most of the rules just using D&D Beyond or an SRD. (and [URL='https://oldschoolessentials.necroticgnome.com/srd/index.php/Main_Page']some retroclones [/URL]that way too) [/QUOTE]
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