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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9272732" data-attributes="member: 7006">One aspect that makes the whole premise kind of counter-intuitive is that unless you have a person with no knowledge of RPGs that actually goes through the effort of a LOT of research beforehand... it is only people who already know about RPGs and probably has spent a good amount of money on RPGs that knows how cheaply you COULD spend on RPGs.&nbsp; People with no or little knowledge of the hobby and try to find their way into it have a more likely chance of actually spending quite a bit of money because they don't know any better.Few people who are relatively unfamiliar with D&amp;D will know that there's a set of D&amp;D 5E Basic Rules and an SRD you can download for free online to play the game.&nbsp; Most likely they will hear from someone with perhaps a bit of knowledge in passing (or they do a very prelim google search) that will tell them that to play D&amp;D you'll need to go to a place like Barnes &amp; Noble and buy a Player's Handbook, a Dungeon Master's Guide, and a Monster Manual, possibly even a Starter Set or one of the big adventure path books.&nbsp; And that person... the person who has no idea that you actually DON'T need to get all of that to start with to get into D&amp;D... they see the price tag of all that material up front and they do double-take at the cost (and possibly put all of it back on the shelf.)Buying D&amp;D is like learning to play D&amp;D... while you could do it completely on your own just on a whim and try to muddle your way through... usually you will want to sidle up to someone who has more more experience with it and give you the true skinny before you jump in with both feet.&nbsp; And THAT person will be able to make it clear that most of that stuff a player doesn't actually need to get started in the hobby and you can save yourself a bunch of cash at the top if you learn the secrets of playing RPGs/D&amp;D cheaply.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9272732, member: 7006"] One aspect that makes the whole premise kind of counter-intuitive is that unless you have a person with no knowledge of RPGs that actually goes through the effort of a LOT of research beforehand... it is only people who already know about RPGs and probably has spent a good amount of money on RPGs that knows how cheaply you COULD spend on RPGs. People with no or little knowledge of the hobby and try to find their way into it have a more likely chance of actually spending quite a bit of money because they don't know any better. Few people who are relatively unfamiliar with D&D will know that there's a set of D&D 5E Basic Rules and an SRD you can download for free online to play the game. Most likely they will hear from someone with perhaps a bit of knowledge in passing (or they do a very prelim google search) that will tell them that to play D&D you'll need to go to a place like Barnes & Noble and buy a [I]Player's Handbook[/I], a [I]Dungeon Master's Guide[/I], and a [I]Monster Manual[/I], possibly even a [I]Starter Set[/I] or one of the big adventure path books. And that person... the person who has no idea that you actually DON'T need to get all of that to start with to get into D&D... they see the price tag of all that material up front and they do double-take at the cost (and possibly put all of it back on the shelf.) Buying D&D is like learning to play D&D... while you [I]could[/I] do it completely on your own just on a whim and try to muddle your way through... usually you will want to sidle up to someone who has more more experience with it and give you the true skinny before you jump in with both feet. And THAT person will be able to make it clear that most of that stuff a player doesn't actually need to get started in the hobby and you can save yourself a bunch of cash at the top if you learn the secrets of playing RPGs/D&D cheaply. [/QUOTE]

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