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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Radiating Gnome" data-source="post: 276991" data-attributes="member: 150">I play in two groups, and I occassionally turn up for an RPGA event on a slow weekend.Personally I own all the core WOTC stuff that isn't setting specific  -- I don't have all the FR and OA stuff, but just about everything else. IN the group where I'm a player, made up of RPGA players, there are more players who own books -- as a group we're much more informed about rules and sourcebooks.  Many of us actually owm more books that the DM, who is running a home grown world and uses only the core books (and the WOTC class books, if he needs to).  In the game where I'm the DM, I run a game losely set in Greyhawk, but with plenty of other odd things mixed in.  We've actually just started a weird alternate material plane jaunt into a sort of WWII Poland that I've created as a fusion of Call of the Cthulu and Pinnacle's Weird War D20 book. That group of players, most of whom had played D&D as teenagers 15-20 years ago, (the first edition days) didn't own books when we started and were dabblers -- not really interested in the rules or buying books, they were just looking to have a good time.  It was a special day -- a real victory for me as a DM, I felt, when all of a sudden all the dabblers in the group turned up with their own PHB's.  Now a couple of them have the class book for their character's class, and they're starting to get more interested in the rules.  With that group I have been known to plan encounters as object lessons in certain strategies and rules, like flanking sneak attacks.  They learn, but their main focus continues to be just having fun, and they'll never be the sort of gamer that searches books out.  Whatever they can find on the shelf at Borders is more than enough for them.AS for reading these boards, I think I'm the only person in both groups who does, although I post a story hour of the game I run (heroes of spittlemarch) and send the link to my players every week, and often recommend the boards as a rules adjudication resource for the game I play in.I guess I'm saying it takes all kinds.  Now if I could just find a group interested in playing Spycraft with me to justify all the money I spent on those books . . .-rg</blockquote>

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