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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fireinthedust" data-source="post: 5117391" data-attributes="member: 51930">If I'm buying, I'll usually try to support my local store.  They have fairly good prices, and chop them often enough.However, DDI means I almost never need to buy anything, per se.  The CB is great, and covers what I need on a regular basis.  I havn't gone through the MM1, let alone 2.  What I do buy is cheaper versions of minis: Bag o Zombies was great, and Skeletons; I'm waiting for them to get Bag o' Goblins and Bag o' Orcs, and some size Large minis (like Bag o' Ogres).  Because I do this, my local store is inexpensive enough for me.I don't get into card games, or random mini collecting, or anything else I see as a money-suck.Actually, I did some calculating: did you know I could get a contractor-level drill and 215 assorted drill bits (including for steel, concrete and tile, etc.) for the same cost of about three regular-priced books?  And I can make money off of them to cover those costs, which I won't ever get back with my D&D books!   Regardless of whether you order online or through a store, RPGs are a money suck for anyone but successful game designers (and given their lifelong habits, I doubt it's much profit even for them).  This is more a question of whether you're sucking slightly less than the other posters on ENworld!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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