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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Camarath" data-source="post: 1001408" data-attributes="member: 11987"><p>:Shakes Head: I spend 5 dollars to go to the movies. The books at cover price would cost me a total $90 for that I could go to the movies 18 times. I bought them online for $60 but thats still 12 movies or 24 to about 30 hours of enjoyment with no work on my part. I spend at most 5 hours (and probably about 10 out of game) in game a week so about 20 hours a month (60 if you count my prep time). I also buy almost every supplement WotC puts out and many 3rd party products. I spend on avarge about $80 a month on gaming books and supplies (more if you count the food and soda we consume wile playing). If you compare this to my $40 purchase of Half-Life which has given me hundereds of hours of gaming fun and dozens of free supplements the new D&D no longer looks that cheap. I could get the rules for free if I wanted but I like the books. It is not the money I worry about with 3.5 but the discontinuity a quasi 3rd edition rule set could bring and the possible further division of the gaming community. If movie studios put out a movie I thought ill conceived, poorly executed, and excessively exploitative I could avoid the movie or at worst be out 5 to 20 dollars. But if they change D&D it is more like updating software in that it becomes diffcult to play the old version with out a lot of hassel (LAN play only, jury-rigged drivers, arguments about the game version, conversions, and misunderstanding about how the game works).</p></blockquote><p></p>

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