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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davelozzi" data-source="post: 281781" data-attributes="member: 771">Great topic.  I have a group that includes myself (DM) and nine players (in two groups for now).  Of everyone, I'd say only one (maybe two) of those guys consider themselves gamers, although they're mostly into computer games rather than pen & paper, outside of my campaign.  These two guys share an apartment and own one PHB between them, one also owns a Psionics Handbook and a set of dice and the other owns a copy of Relics & Rituals, although he just bought it to have access to extra spells and he generally leaves it at my place anyway.  The first guy has his own website and has created a section of it devoted to my campaign, but he just posts stuff that I send him.  Of my other players, two own PHBs and the the remaining five own nothing, although one is my wife, so she has access to my gaming library, which is substantial (21/2 bookshelves worth).  Oh yeah, my wife also has her own set of dice.I actually was pleasantly surprised with this situation.  In past campaigns, I was generally the only one with any materials.  In fact during the 2e era, I had to buy a second copy of the core books so that we weren't constantly passing them around during play.I always considered this fairly normal, so I was kind of surprised a few years ago when WotC started changing their focus to produce more products aimed at players.  Of course it makes sense, but I always just took it as a given that the RPG industry was supported 95% by GMs.  I've talked about this site with my players a little.  I don't think any of them ever come here, although one of them will read an occasional thread of interest if I point it out.</blockquote>

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