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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SableWyvern" data-source="post: 9272412" data-attributes="member: 1008">I would say that a majority of the people I've gamed with over the better part of 40 years haven't spent money on anything more than transport and dice.In my current group of myself plus seven, I'm the only significant spender. I have two players who will buy the core books for whatever game I run, and will occasionally purchase other systems of interest to themselves. Another doesn't spend money on the systems I run, but does have a bit of material for running games with his kids. That leaves three that have never bought an RPG rulebook in their lives, plus one who has bought a couple games of particular interest to himself. I think most of them have acquired their own dice at some point, although it's common for players to just grab from my giant pile.Back in earlier days, when money was tighter, I didn't expect anyone at the table other than myself to have a copy of the rules -- you bought rules for games you planned to run, that was it. There are people who want to spend more money, and there are groups were the expectation is that everyone buys a copy of the rules, but it's certainly not the case that this is necessary.</blockquote>