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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DRF" data-source="post: 7358839" data-attributes="member: 6910474">I run games both at home and at my FLGS. My campaign is at my home, and one-shots at the FLGS. I always carry the PHB and MM. My campaign is Tomb of Annihilation, so obviously I have that book close. I rarely use the PHB during play.I carry a dice pouch, pen & paper, DM screen, chalk, battlemap, and miniatures. I also often have printed-out notes and occasionally I'll spend a lot of time on particular maps (such as when I ran Death House).I have quite a few minis; I grew up with Warhammer and enjoy some cool minis, but they're very expensive. I've bought Massive Darkness and Wrath of Ashardalon just for the minis, and then I shop second-hand. My players don't appreciate it.I could easily run TotM-games and can see the advantages of doing it that way. Sometimes I feel like my games can get too board game-y when players focus on the minis and map too much.  I definitely spend much more than my players. Again, they don't really appreciate it. Now that I have the core books, though, my only real expense is minis. I don't need anything more than I have right now.No. Though I do think many players should DM so they could learn what it actually takes just in terms of time investment.</blockquote>