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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 6304138" data-attributes="member: 3457"><p>It is my opinion 3e/3.5 and 4e were more expensive to play what with battle mats, miniature purchases etc. Being very nearly a requirement though alleviated with the essentials counters. Minis are not essential to 5e and that cuts a large swath out of the cost to play and get into the game. They made the tactical rules an optional element of the game. While I loved playing with minis, tiles, battle mats etc. When I got out of the game for a while it made getting back in without those items very costly. Even with essentials, a decent battle at and tiles added another fifty bucks to the overall cost to start playing on top of wet erase markers, a decent cleaner for the mat to keep it from eventually discoloring. So in comparison, this edition is much cheaper to get into than the last 2 and a half or Pathfinder, even at 150. If characters are as simple as 1e or 2e then we aren't even talking printing costs for character sheet as a notebook would suffice for several of them. Can one play those editions without all that stuff? Sure and render a lot of feats obsolete.</p></blockquote><p></p>