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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heap Thaumaturgist" data-source="post: 277031" data-attributes="member: 4516">Well, back when I played more often, I was still the only guy that regularly bought the books.  Then again, I was DM 100% of the time.  We had two PHBs, and I had a handful of product.  The only non-me purchases were made by a player who really wanted to do FR stuff, he was originally going to DM and found out he hated it, but still wanted to game FR, so I agreed to run some of his stuff.  We all moved away, I think his boxed sets and books are in the closet somewhere.Now, my game group isn't exactly formed completely yet, we're waiting for the start of the semester.  I imagine it'll be exactly as it is now ... I'll own all the books, and we'll be running a homebrew of my own making.  We're the shining example of casual players.  It's usually a spur of the moment thing, and we never had what you'd call a solid campaign running.  We all have so many other things to do that D&D is all but a board game we can break out on a really slow weekend.  I own only one 3rd Party game book.Of my players, most are on the internet fairly regularly.  One of them knows about the site, but never visits, I just talk about what's going on in the world of RPGs.  Lately he's been telling everybody about the WotC campaign search and that has stirred up some interest in the hobby, enough for me to make a regular game in the fall, I imagine.  I've been to GenCon once, because I was in the state at the time on a totally unrelated matter.  The friend I took with me wasn't a gamer, but he still had alot of fun checking out the vendors for non-game related products and smiling at the attractive anime-fan girls.  I've been to one other con.I think, on the whole, we provide an interesting demographic for "Casual Gamers".  I'm the only one that takes it to the level of hobby, and it's a pretty constant hobby for me.  I'm on this site every day, I know most of what is going on, and I work on my own game materials pretty much constantly.  I have four fully fleshed campaign worlds that I'm very aware will never see active play, and a collection of RPGs that never get played.  I love my RPGs, but I have a hard time finding a group I can game with.  I prefer to game with my close friends, and most of them aren't avid gamers.  I could probably game every day of the week if I had a reason to, but as it is I'm lucky if I game four times a year.--HT</blockquote>

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