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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8868385" data-attributes="member: 2209">Sure. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I buy running shoes as my normal knocking about shoes year round. I spend literally zero extra dollars to go out my back door and hit the trail behind my house about three times a week.I still use the weights I was using in the 80s.I have read a lot of books and listened to a lot of audio books from the library. 20 years of library audio books as part of my regular commuting.Of course I don't need to buy anything to play RPGs. I have plenty of existing stuff I could use for the rest of my life. The SRDs for 3.0, 3.5, and Pathfinder 1e are all sufficient to play (I used them to DM games without owning the core books for years, I spent my RPG budget on modules, settings, sourcebooks, and such instead). There are plenty of other free great games to be found online. I have played plenty of RPGs where I did not own any of the books at the time (Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Star Frontiers, GURPS, Shadowrun, Vampire the Masquerade, Mage the Ascension, others). I buy lots of RPG stuff as part of my RPG hobby, but I don't need to at all. I have friends who have played for decades without buying anything.WotC putting out the 3.5 SRD got me reading and being engaged with 3.5 day one and then playing and buying 3.5 stuff right away.WotC not putting out anything similar for 4e led to me entirely ignoring 4e for a couple years until I was in a group that played 4e. WotC had partially switched policy then by at least releasing the H1 Shadowfell basic rules packet as a free PDF which eased the transition a lot for me. I was happy with a lot of 3.5 when 4e came out and I had a ton of d20 stuff that I enjoyed including a lot of d20 adventures that looked fun that I had not run yet so I was happy with the not current D&D stuff.Paizo putting out their big fairly comprehensive SRD got me reading and then playing Pathfinder fairly right away in both Beta and 1e.5e was similar to 4e initially, the initial lack of SRD and such meant I put the new books on an Amazon wishlist but kept playing and actively buying Pathfinder stuff until the group I was in started playing 5e a number of years into the edition. I had downloaded a playtest packet and my group tried it out once but went back to Pathfinder and Vampire and such fairly quickly. I vaguely remember at 5e's release there was a basic rules packet and no initial SRD, I downloaded the basic rules but it was not enough for me to really be engaged and dive in. When they did release an SRD I was glad there were finally OGC terms for dragonborn and warlocks but I was shocked at how little stuff there was for players, a warlock built out of the SRD could not even cast eldritch blast. It was not like the 3e or Pathfinder SRD where you could explore fairly full core options so I quickly put 5e stuff aside until my group decided to get into it.I really like both 4e and 5e, but there are plenty of things I would potentially really like that I am not going to focus the majority of my hobby time on if my group is not doing it and I am happy with stuff I have. I am currently happy with a lot of 5e.</blockquote>

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