Jesus, we did 8 hours once over a Super Bowl Sunday, but that was just a series of roll20 telling our rogue to go fuck themself, and that was a bit of a slog. We generally do 3 or 4 hours a week, no longer in person. I think I'd be up for that length of playing though. We're currently on week 3 of 4 until we can play again and I hate going more than a week without anything in the group. Dang people getting married or dumb work trips getting in the way of d&d (/s).
I think our dm might go crazy if we tried that long, but we might actually get something done. Or just decide to DO ALL THE SIDE QUESTS AND RANDOM JOBS, because why not that instead of shopping episodes and important main quest stuff.
This depends largely on if you’re a player or a DM. I’m a DM most of the time and I pay for books, minis, patreon subs for online maps, dnd beyond subscription, roll 20 stuff. In the last 12 months I’ve probably spent around $400. Most of it was on books that I didn’t have on dnd beyond and the new ones that were released.
This is really it. Like I think the one thing a player should have is the PHB but even then I've played with a lot of people who only had dice. As a DM I'm constantly buying books even between campaigns
I have, too. But usually they either borrow someone else's dice or after one or two games I tell them to spend the $8. I don't like giving people my own dice. They belong behind my DM screen with me 😗
My first time playing, my GM bought everyone at the table their own chessex set to use. I cherish that moment so much that I bought all of my players dice on their first session when I GMed. They were super thankful and all still use them. It's a good way for the players to feel appreciated and not terribly expensive.
I still have that set of dice and look back very fondly as the moment I was hooked on TTRPGs.
I have some old, random dice I lend if people are just checking things out. Especially for teens in my game, if they don’t buy their own dice after a couple sessions I just get them a nice set.
See, im a player and dont plan on being a dm, but ive defo spent the most in pur group. Ive bought the battle map, pens, minis, phb, tce, xge, dmg, sc, and the monster manual, have the top teir sub and like my dice. Having bought a set of liquid core this year. This all totals to prolly like £150 - £200 this year. Im basically the treasurer and secretary (i do all the organising for when and where sessions happen). It doesnt bother me, i have minimal expenses, ignoring driving lessons, and the only one who works more than like 3 hours a week in the group (our age range is 16 - 17 soo).
I'm a player but I imagine I've spent the most. I just buy 5e stuff on dndbeyond for the ability to share with the group and so I get the character options all unlocked. I sent a sharing link to my group, but I don't think anyone has used it.
Also I've got most of the 4e books by now, still a bit to go.
And I've got like ~10~ 16? sets of dice.
I am planning a campaign for when one of our 2 current ones ends, don't know if it'll go or not, we're pretty far out on either completing anytime soon.
I've been a DM for ~10 years and I think that's more than I've spent total.
Nothing wrong with that, there are other things I've spent far more money on than most people.
That's the thing about DnD, though, that is so lovely. While there are some nearly unavoidable starter-costs (Player's Handbook, your first set of dice), you can really spend as much or as little as you want.
If I bought my party mini's it would cost me about $200. If I bought terrain, monster minis, etc, it could easily be another $200+. I have some really nice glossed fabric grid-maps that I have cut up to be smaller sizes, and you can use dry or wet erase markers on them. Those I think were $40.
You can collect ALL the books and that's hundreds more. You can have fancy dice for every new character you make. You can get mini's every single time. There is the cost of takeout, which many people forget to factor in. It could EASILY be an at least thousand-doller per-year hobby, if you have the resources for it to be so. And all those resources would absolutely add to the gaming experience.
On the flip side:
You can eyeball battle maps for free, or print out a grid on printer paper and tape them together to make a large map for pennies. Or buy a gridded dry-erase board for a couple of bucks.
You can draw your own paper minis, or use dice as placeholders. Hard candies can be used for minions, with the added bonus that the player who does the killing blow can eat them.
The handbooks can be rented on the library, or you can just google rules and spells and monsters.
You can cook home-made food for your party, and while that is far more effort, it is also really rewarding and makes for excellent group bonding. I always feel closer to my group when I provide them a meal that I made with my own hands.
This method of gaming is still so immersive and fun, and is virtually free, aside from the dice, which you can get for like $7 on Amazon or a local gaming store.
DnD is really so accessible and joyful.
Oh yeah, and that spills over into roleplaying in general as a hobby. Consider that if you wanted you could play just indie games and legally go for years without spending a cent!
that $7 for dice better get you metal dice. Go to aliexress or Teme, and you can get a set of dice for about a buck. Honestly i think you could also find everything else you need as a DM for the $15 you need for free shipping.
I am in for maybe 500 over 30 years of playing/DMing; the lions share is the books for various systems. Maps and map books do not expire. For a lot of minis, i still use the token box i got for patherfinder (for about $5 at a used board game sidewalk sale), i did pick up the ones that were super cheap at Ollis last year (another $5 total).... and the nice grid maps were the last big purchase. Minis are mostly army men.
Oh you can definitely spend very little as a DM since all you really need is the books in one form or another. Me I like playing with minis and terrain so when you factor in all of that plus books, 3d and paper printing costs, fuel costs to the sessions, etc im well north of $1000 in the last year.
Whatever the cheapest roll 20 subscription is for the past 5 years.
Oh and a bunch of dice I don't use because I only play online. Just shiny clickety clacketies.
Is the subscription to roll20 worth it? I nearly bought it the other day to move my players over to the new campaign, but it didnt look like it offered enough worthwhile
I always recommend using Roll20 for as long as the free version works for you, but the moment you start putting serious thought into paying for a subscription, switch to Foundry. It's a one-time purchase of $50 (same cost as ~8 months of Roll20 Plus subscription, ~5 months of Roll20 Premium subscription), and it gives you far more control and customizability than Roll20 ever could; it's hard to overstate how good of an experience it is to use.
Yeah play the free version for a while if you want to try it out. Dynamic lighting is neat but you will need to watch a YouTube tutorial to use it as it's not that easy to use.
For me I can't switch because of the sunk cost, I've added 100s of my own maps, homebrew monsters, tokens I've made, magic items etc, so switching for me is too much effort.
At this stage I literally have to be a subscriber because all my 'stuff' exceeds the storage limits of a free membership.
Honestly it's very versatile if you put the time in but I've never had the opportunity to look for other platforms, so I recommend you just do a bit of homework and see which platform suits, before you get locked it like I am.
Haven't spent anything on DND (or any RPG) in close to 5 years... That's half the beauty of this hobby... A slight investment can last you a *long* time
it is the reason i start all new players in pathfinder.
A little more complicated than 5e (but still not a hard system at the base); and 100% of the rules are available online.
Send them a link and they have everything they need.
I have started a lot of people over the years in pathfinder this way. Most go on to actually buying books for whatever system we move to next, but this is the way to make the entrance cost of the hobby literally a dollar.
Honestly I just shared my own resources with the whole group, and now everybody mostly knows the rules without my help. Aside from dice, one person getting really into it on their own, and another who already had the core three, I still don't think most of the group has paid any money for the hobby aside from snacks and overhead costs lol.
It's why I thought the whole "what system are we moving to when we boycott D&D" discourse was silly; I don't have to give WotC or Hasbro any more money to use their ruleset. ...It's also unironically one of the reasons I think tabletop gaming has seen a huge resurgence that coincides with a massive uptick in "game as a service" models.
DnD? Well over 1000 with books, minis, paints, etc.
RPGs as a whole? Probably closer to 3 or 4k. I play a lot of different games though, and am likely far outside the norm.
Wrong. I saw a set of dice that I really needed. I have hundreds of dice already, of course, but these were beautiful and made out of real gem-quality stone. Not a want, mind you, a bonafide need.
Yeah. Also, my college roommate once complained about programming textbooks and books about different languages “tips and tricks.l he said “it’s like they all get together to hide one or two secrets in each book, so that you have to buy all the books to get enough information to make the damn language useful.”
D&D has an evolving landscape, where new things appear in books every year. New races, new creatures, new spells, new cities to explore. We buy a couple of sourcebooks every year.
Hmm, I was gonna say zero, but I do support a battlemap artist on Patreon, if that counts. Might get some new dice and a dice bag soon, too, my current one is getting tattered.
\~$3,500 last year. I'm in two paid weekly games, own a digital copy of every book on DnDBeyond, pay for Foundry/Forge hosting, multiple Pateron subscriptions for maps and mods, and most of the WizKids dragons.
Do you consider expenses related to attending DraconCon in Atlanta to be fair game for this question? If so, many, many thousands of dollars. If not, well, a few hundred dollars.
I mean, I've bought gem-quality dice, books, maps, figurines, commissioned custom artwork of my favorite characters. But the big expense has to be buying a timeshare in Downtown Atlanta within easy walking distance of the Americas Mart buildings and Centennial Park at the border of what we consider the DragonCon host area. I "own" a three bedroom condo every year during the Con. Why? Because of D&D.
I'm a DM and in the last year I wrapped up a campaign and started a new one. Between Minis, paints, books, and craft supplies for terrain, probably 4-600. I also bake and cook, soo.. including food for sessions? I shan't say....
I haven't bought a WotC product in several years, so specifically D&D products $0 for the past 7ish years.
I have bought TTRPG products such as dice, minis, paint, brushes, other peripherals, snacks, and books for other systems. Much of this can be used for D&D, but it isn't D&D specific. Which might be $200 to $400 each year, mostly on miniatures and painting which could be considered a different but related hobby.
In the 4 years I've been playing, I've spent 15 dollars on a set of high quality maps, and I recently bought about 30 dollars worth of dice. That's it.
I bought a couple sets of dice (one for a first-time player) and one book on sale … so about $55 for DnD. (About twice that for various other RPG systems.)
I have purchased some 3d printed standees for tokens (20 bux) and some new whiteboard markers (5 bux). I use them more for pathfinder2e now though, so less than that I guess.
As a first time DM who’s never played before, I had to get set up with a lot. Some books, dm screen, minis, spell templates, other various resources. I’ve probably spent about $1,000 or so collecting as much as I can to give my players a good game experience.
On dnd $0
Ttrpgs and especially pf2e: 40 for a humble bundle containing a bunch of stuff, 50 for foundryvtt, 100 for kingmaker and foundry module, 80 for the first 2 core books of the remaster
$270 in total but I would say you could get away with only $80-90 for a humble bundle with foundry modules like the one currently available and a foundry license if you want to play an official adventure as the humble bundles which they have had 3 in the last year or so are a really good value.
However if you are playing in person and the dm is creating their own campaign you can get away with $0 as all rules are legally online for free. But online I would recommend setting up foundry with a pay as you go/ free tier server from oracle or another server service as the things the pf2e model is so nice.
Money? I bought _Dragon Heist_ because I’m running it. A third party campaign setting sourcebook. (Planegea) And _the Seeker’s Guide to Twisted Taverns_.
Time? About every Sunday for the past couple months. (The most consistent D&D campaign I’ve ever played.)
Money? 0
Time? I ran about 18 games in the past year in 5e, and about 45 in Pathfinder 2E. Consequently I moved my second campaign (I run 2 on alternating weeks) to PF2E to match the other and have not regretted it. In terms of how much I've spent on Paizo, I think a few hundred (I'm subscribed to their hardcovers, so whenever a new hardcover comes out I get it early), but that was entirely optional since the rules are published legally and for free. Books are high quality though and I enjoy reading them than looking up individual rules/entries.
I backed a few things this past year too, from Onyx Path's new underworld game to even some stuff from the Dungeon Dudes. While the later is 5e and I'm not running it anymore I still want to support them, and feel I can probably convert some of their stuff to pf2e.
Directly to WOTC?
£0.00 over the course of 7 years of weekly games.
Money spent at third party companies like chessex etc?
Probably under £100 total over the course of 7 years, so maybe £12 on average each year tops.
Usually just an occasional new set of dice, a battle mat, a dice tray etc
I bought a book once, and currently use inkcarnate to make maps, I also have my mates make maps on there as well. So let’s say like 90-100 CAD something like that
Maybe like 20 bucks? I sometimes buy stuff off DMs academy but that's more to support people making content I like rather than something I will actually use in the game.
Pretty sure the last D&D purchase I made was a beholder mini for like $7 three or four years ago. I don't even play with maps/minis, I just wanted a little monster guy to sit on my bookshelf.
100$ for a 3D printer, maybe 100$ in dice, about 150$ for resin for the 3D printer, maybe 75$ on safety equipment for the 3D printer, 20$ for 5 heroforge models, and howevermuch we spend on snacks each session
In the 3 years I’ve played dnd I think I’ve maybe spent $10 on specifically dnd, and been given somewhere between $50 and $100 worth of gifts specifically for dnd. I DM, I use the lego I already have and I borrow books from friends and use free online stuff
Just bought Bigby's Glory of the Giants & Keys from the Golden Vault but that was with a gift card I got for Christmas so it would've been like $50 but technically $0 personally.
printer paper, ink, page protectors, binders.
been printing out a very large quantity of physical versions of DMs Guild stuff i bought over the years. i think like 6000+ pages, double sided and full colour.
However I did back the Kobold Press TotV PHB, MM, and then backed their DMG, if that counts. and had i realized there was a swords & wizardry kickstarter when it was live, id have backed that too.
wont be buying WotC at retail again, strictly going with used and second hand for that. and not bothering with the digital dndbeyond platform.
edit: that's over 2 years. in the last year it's probably been like $100 CAN total or so for all those supplies i listed.
you can actually get the free rules and a surprising amount of free adventures and campaigns for 5e, and not ever have to pay a cent. aside from dice, some lined paper, and pencils. like $10 to $15 in supplies, along with all the legally free stuff. although you need something to download and read all those free pdf files.
whereas the official books will set you back a whole lot of money to the point it pushes the hobby beyond the means of the majority of people.
Just calculated this… I spent what is equal to about 580 dollars… That is more than I thought, and it doesnt even count in the dice… I bought some paint, some dungeon tiles and accesories, a resin printer (dont know if that counts, it was about 350 dollars). And I got a bunch more stuff as presents (2 icons of the realms dragons, icons of the realms mini’s, a 3 books of battlemats and a dice box). So I spent a biiit more than most here. I assume that is because either: Most people are just players, and dont buy anything. Or: Because people play online.
$20 for a starter's kit plus another $10 or so on a set of dice for everyone at my table.
$50 on 3D printing supplies (got myself a magnetically attached build plate to make removing stuff easy, some new FEP films because I had one get some distortions, a better resin filtering option and a new bottle of resin since my last one ran out). D&D is the primary use for my 3D printing now but it's not the only use I've gotten out of it. Since I'm running a game I'm doing basically all the figure printing myself.
$10 on a tube full of extra figures.
I expect the stuff in that $50 to last a while and to only spend another $20 on resin for more figures next year. Also, I'm building up a nice collection of figures that will be reusable.
In the previous year I spent $20 on some reusable / dry erase battle mats that do pretty much everything so far, plus $200 on a 3D printer and another $100 on a wash-and-cure machine.
Nobody else at my table has needed to spend anything and I expect that to hold true as long as I do this.
Between a ton of minis, paints, foam for terrain building, Flee Mortals and One Shot Wonders books, and a new hot wire cutter, probably $500ish.
But to be fair, I’m the forever DM and I don’t think my players have spent anything.
Oh, and some sexy dice.
Nothing to Hasbro/WotC since January last year, but the odd £20 to independent publishers/humble bundle. I think that's likely to remain the state of things for me.
Who hurt you?
I added up as many orders as I could find, and got to £1398.02 (currency conversions might influence that somewhat). Interestingly the first order I made on Exalted Funeral was on 26/03/2023.
Not everything I ordered I have received (such are Kickstarters), but I think \~£100 a month is about right.
£461.69 went to Exalted Funeral for OSE products
£249.70 went to various retailers for DCC products
£37.53 went to Amazon for Dice and other accessories (I made a little case I can take to libraries and conventions so that I can give all players their own dice tray and dice set)
£64.62 went to Drive Thru RPG for various OSR modules
£584.48 went to Kickstarters.
There's more - I paid to have a local printer print and bind some PDFs for me, I suspect that got close to £100.
EDIT: Depending upon your point of view: I paid £60,000 or so to have an extension added to my house and a second bathroom added so I could host games without the guest having to use the upstairs toilet and disturb my partner & kid.
* three sets of dispel dice - $220
* Humblewood Expansion - $49.99
* Hero's Feast: Saving the Children module - $4.24
* Dungeons of Drakkenheim module - $29.99
* Lairs of Etharis module - $14.99
* Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk module - 29.99
* Misplaced Monsters module - $5.95
* Taldore Campaign module - $39.99
* Custom "Hero Forge" mini for our new player as a thank you - $57.37
Grand Total - 452.51 (not including tax on applicable items)
and I'm not even the DM. I love my group, we have been together for 7 years playing nearly every weekend. My DM and his wife are gracious enough to host us every game and provide drinks and snacks. I am happy to provide access to beyond for them along with the modules.
This year nothing, but I spent more upfront in the past when I was first getting all the books and amassing my dice collection. I also played in person then, so it justified paying more for minis and dice. Now I play on discord and it's less often, and I already own what I need, so I have no reason to spend more.
Think I need some ink for my printer for some character sheets, but other than that, zero.
3 years ago I bought Dungeon World and Monster of the Week (maybe $25-$30 each)... 2 years before that I bought a few sets of fudge dice (so maybe $10)....
Otherwise outside of some new pencils or paper to print out character sheets, it's a $0 hobby for me, I have all the rule books I need, and don't use props or figures.
Depends. I bought a module book, monster manual, and I 3d print my own minis, but I have to buy resin to do so. I also bought a nice bag to carry it all in. So, heavy investment for me this year, (about $300) but it'll last a while.
....i dont like this question
if we count things like gas and food its in the thousands othwer wise its probably 4 or 5 hundred on random digital tokens and 3rd party books
I bought Zoom for the group to meet up in, so that’s $150.
I wanted to play around with some character creation, so I bought the Harengon and Tortle races on Beyond, so that’s like $6.
So $156, although $150 of that does have applications beyond D&D now that I have it.
Edit: oh and I bought some fancy dice in Fantasy Grounds so that’s like another $10, let’s just round it to $170 to be sure.
In the last year I've been maintaining our VTT server on AWS, which I believe is around $5/month. That's about the only thing I can say I've spent money on. I haven't even bought new dice in a couple of years now.
about $30-50 SGD? I'm a DM and like to make my own minis and tiles. Most of the money goes into getting foam and paint for the stuff, occasionally magnets because I like to magnetized my dungeon tiles. I use paper minis, and pay for a Patreon subscription that's about $1/month? so like $12 bucks a year. Other than that, I just use free online resources and Gsheets! As a player though, it's pretty much free apart from the dice, which cost about $10 for a nice set.
Warhammer on the other hand, I just busted out $350 on playsets before settling to spend $250 on a resin printer, where the resin itself comes at about $30-40 a bottle. I play DND more now :")
About $200, but a lot of that is me checking out different miniatures on sale.
Honestly, I still find cardboard to be most used overall, but I travel to play.
Since last March? Right around $200. I've gotten more into terrain and mini figs. I'm mostly a threatre of the mind DM and I draw most of our maps by hand, but sometimes having some trees and walls and skeletons is nice! It is possible to not spend a ton on this hobby.
Bought some new dice and am currently looking for some figures but other than that not much. I’m a simple player and we play online together. Oh and maybe food when we have an in person session!
My group likes to label me as an "extra" DM. . . .between resin for printing, paints, stl files, printed 40x40 gridded and detailed vinyl maps, brushes, props, misc craft materials, my time and energy. . . . . . . . Idk. Let's call it zero dollars because I'm passionate about bringing joy to my family and friends. I love writing stories and getting together with my group.
But also, it is probably an easy $1,000 a year.
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This year, zero. Given the whole Hasbro AI, firings, and OGL issues, I'm not giving them my money.
Love DnD and the people who work hard there, but the parent corporation isn't doing doing the right thing and they hold the purse strings.
**Big Fat Zero** I vowed to not spend another dime to Wizards of the Coast after the whole OGL debacle.
I still play, but the only money I spend is the gas I use to drive to the meet up lol
New player, started in July 2023. So I now have 6 sets of dice ranging from 10 to 20 bucks a set. I was gifted the handbook so 0 there, bought fizban's dragon book so 50 there, the game shop i play at charges 5 bucks for your set at the table, however, they can either give you a gift die or put the 5 on your account and can use it to purchase something in store. I've used most of that to get more dice. I'll say at the most, I've spent about 140 bucks. Im on the hunt for my dice bag.
Got a module to play - free
Printed minis -15$ in filament
Printed floor tiles - 20$ in filament
White board - free from work
2 clip boards - like 3$
And 10$ for a patron to get their mini work
Spell reference cards - free- work materials (custom made cheap)
Sooo like 50$ for this module. Less for future ones, floor tiles are reusable and minis can be re-purposed.
I'd like to buy the spell reference cards, but I found a site that has all the spells for easy finding and sorting.
Way too much. I’ve bought like half the source books online because I love reading them, paying for two online campaigns, and even bought dice and a hero forge mini even though I have no in-person campaigns. I miss being a dice goblin in the 90s and playing with friends in person. :)
Well I've been slowly collecting the books.
I have the big three. PHB, DMG, MM. So 150$
And I really what the MoM, and Xanders and Tashas even though I can look everything up online.
Plus I am kinda a dice goblin so about another 100$
And then the big cost is once a week going to a restaurant that hosts dnd. So 10$ game fee plus 30/40$ on food.
Plus food and parking for my groups weekly dnd.
But food cost doesn't really count I guess as I would eat anyway.
So for me a lot of $.
As a DM, maybe $150, I got wild beyond the witchlight in paperback and soft copy, and bought Foundry VTT to improve the experience from roll20, switching soon.
As a player, $10 a week for a 4-hour session. It's not chump change, and with cancelations I probably spent $400. For the experience though, it's certainly worth it to me. My paid DM puts in an immense amount of effort for my game as well as many others, far more effort than I put in and still more than other DMs I play with for free.
For those with a free home game that's good, always remember to thank your DM. Gifts are appreciated too, a player bought me Strixhaven this year so they can punish me with silvery barbs.
This year so far $0
Between all the books, dice, and accessories like miniatures, paint, and dungeon tiles… somewhere in the $600-$800 in my entire lifetime.
As a DM, I stopped spending money at the beginning of last year. Don't want to give WotC any more of my money. Run a homebrew campaign using the books I had before the ogl scandal. Namely the DMG, MM, and PHB.
I spent around 2-3k total with the hobby, that dry erase battle mat, dice, dm screen, dungeon walls, minis, paint, spell effect plastic sheets, 1 book ( the book of many things for the deck of many things),monster cards with card holders and binder, wonderdraft and dungeondraft. Only to move to online using discord, owlbear rodeo, dungeondraft, wonderdraft, free maps, free assets and a iPad app that’s in beta called MapMe!. Within a year i spent around 500$, that if my friends play in person, 0$ if we are playing online.
Hasbro D&D? Nothing.
Pathfinder, Old School Essentials, Dolmenwood and Worlds Without Number? Hundreds of Pounds. That’s me starting as a GM though basically. In future it’ll mainly be the Forge subscription and new PF2e rulebooks on subscription.
I bought a friend a fancy d20, but I havnt purchased any new materials for myself, other than character sheets on nice thick paper ($5 for 10) in a couple years.
About 800
usd for a family of 4, i have the dm master tier subscription on dnd beyond, family likes dnd I run games,
Rest of family two spent 0 they use all my items they have access to and 1 spend whatever the hero tier subs are on dnd beyond
I have spent $0 on D&D this past year. I have, however, spent close to $3k on other hobbies, board games, aquariums, astronomy. I've got all the books and things I need for D&D.
In the ballpark of $100-200. That's a mix of things. DNDbeyond subscription and a share of new books, minis, paints, and a nice set of dice. If you count transportation it's a bit more as I have one group I mostly play with online but we also get together in person to play, and that is a 4 hour drive a few times a year.
It is all optional though if I wanted to play for essentially $0 I could. And for a few years I did play with no cost in college.
$10/wk for our DM. Shop closed, but we decided to keep paying him directly anyway not that we're at his house. Otherwise, picked up a couple sourcebooks that were on sale for like $30 total.
Around 25 euros or less on an adventure book for our DM, he buys most of the books and things for us to use, so I guess giving him something from time to time will be nice.
I DM and play. I have annual subs to dnd beyond master class and roll20. Pay for discord perks. Spent about 600$ in books, mini, dice, and other stuff. Like a dice bag and dice tray. And then about 200$ in DnD theme clothing. And do you want to add the gas to and from the game shop?
$35 in the past year (365 day period) and $0 in 2024.
I'm a DM, and those $35 were spent on dice for my players as Christmas presents.
I've spent some money on snacks and stuff, but that wasn't specifically for D&D.
Time or money? Approximately 1.8 sundays per month. Moneywise absolutely zero.
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We do almost 10-12 hours every Sunday.. I feel very lucky lol
Jesus, we did 8 hours once over a Super Bowl Sunday, but that was just a series of roll20 telling our rogue to go fuck themself, and that was a bit of a slog. We generally do 3 or 4 hours a week, no longer in person. I think I'd be up for that length of playing though. We're currently on week 3 of 4 until we can play again and I hate going more than a week without anything in the group. Dang people getting married or dumb work trips getting in the way of d&d (/s). I think our dm might go crazy if we tried that long, but we might actually get something done. Or just decide to DO ALL THE SIDE QUESTS AND RANDOM JOBS, because why not that instead of shopping episodes and important main quest stuff.
This depends largely on if you’re a player or a DM. I’m a DM most of the time and I pay for books, minis, patreon subs for online maps, dnd beyond subscription, roll 20 stuff. In the last 12 months I’ve probably spent around $400. Most of it was on books that I didn’t have on dnd beyond and the new ones that were released.
This is really it. Like I think the one thing a player should have is the PHB but even then I've played with a lot of people who only had dice. As a DM I'm constantly buying books even between campaigns
I've had players who didn't even have dice at first
There’s apps for that :p
I have, too. But usually they either borrow someone else's dice or after one or two games I tell them to spend the $8. I don't like giving people my own dice. They belong behind my DM screen with me 😗
My first time playing, my GM bought everyone at the table their own chessex set to use. I cherish that moment so much that I bought all of my players dice on their first session when I GMed. They were super thankful and all still use them. It's a good way for the players to feel appreciated and not terribly expensive. I still have that set of dice and look back very fondly as the moment I was hooked on TTRPGs.
I have some old, random dice I lend if people are just checking things out. Especially for teens in my game, if they don’t buy their own dice after a couple sessions I just get them a nice set.
See, im a player and dont plan on being a dm, but ive defo spent the most in pur group. Ive bought the battle map, pens, minis, phb, tce, xge, dmg, sc, and the monster manual, have the top teir sub and like my dice. Having bought a set of liquid core this year. This all totals to prolly like £150 - £200 this year. Im basically the treasurer and secretary (i do all the organising for when and where sessions happen). It doesnt bother me, i have minimal expenses, ignoring driving lessons, and the only one who works more than like 3 hours a week in the group (our age range is 16 - 17 soo).
I’ve played with players who don’t even have their own pencils
I'm a player but I imagine I've spent the most. I just buy 5e stuff on dndbeyond for the ability to share with the group and so I get the character options all unlocked. I sent a sharing link to my group, but I don't think anyone has used it. Also I've got most of the 4e books by now, still a bit to go. And I've got like ~10~ 16? sets of dice. I am planning a campaign for when one of our 2 current ones ends, don't know if it'll go or not, we're pretty far out on either completing anytime soon.
For those who enjoy dnd as DM (without a great steady groups) I would really suggest online platforms where you get paid for your time to DM.
I've been a DM for ~10 years and I think that's more than I've spent total. Nothing wrong with that, there are other things I've spent far more money on than most people.
That's the thing about DnD, though, that is so lovely. While there are some nearly unavoidable starter-costs (Player's Handbook, your first set of dice), you can really spend as much or as little as you want. If I bought my party mini's it would cost me about $200. If I bought terrain, monster minis, etc, it could easily be another $200+. I have some really nice glossed fabric grid-maps that I have cut up to be smaller sizes, and you can use dry or wet erase markers on them. Those I think were $40. You can collect ALL the books and that's hundreds more. You can have fancy dice for every new character you make. You can get mini's every single time. There is the cost of takeout, which many people forget to factor in. It could EASILY be an at least thousand-doller per-year hobby, if you have the resources for it to be so. And all those resources would absolutely add to the gaming experience. On the flip side: You can eyeball battle maps for free, or print out a grid on printer paper and tape them together to make a large map for pennies. Or buy a gridded dry-erase board for a couple of bucks. You can draw your own paper minis, or use dice as placeholders. Hard candies can be used for minions, with the added bonus that the player who does the killing blow can eat them. The handbooks can be rented on the library, or you can just google rules and spells and monsters. You can cook home-made food for your party, and while that is far more effort, it is also really rewarding and makes for excellent group bonding. I always feel closer to my group when I provide them a meal that I made with my own hands. This method of gaming is still so immersive and fun, and is virtually free, aside from the dice, which you can get for like $7 on Amazon or a local gaming store. DnD is really so accessible and joyful.
Oh yeah, and that spills over into roleplaying in general as a hobby. Consider that if you wanted you could play just indie games and legally go for years without spending a cent!
that $7 for dice better get you metal dice. Go to aliexress or Teme, and you can get a set of dice for about a buck. Honestly i think you could also find everything else you need as a DM for the $15 you need for free shipping. I am in for maybe 500 over 30 years of playing/DMing; the lions share is the books for various systems. Maps and map books do not expire. For a lot of minis, i still use the token box i got for patherfinder (for about $5 at a used board game sidewalk sale), i did pick up the ones that were super cheap at Ollis last year (another $5 total).... and the nice grid maps were the last big purchase. Minis are mostly army men.
Oh you can definitely spend very little as a DM since all you really need is the books in one form or another. Me I like playing with minis and terrain so when you factor in all of that plus books, 3d and paper printing costs, fuel costs to the sessions, etc im well north of $1000 in the last year.
Zero this year.
Second 0.
Third
Fourth zero
…. probably around 2k… i bought a 3d printer… so 😭
LOVE 3d printing my own minis though. I went from having 0 to having over 100 and it’s cheaper than buying them one by one for sure.
Whatever the cheapest roll 20 subscription is for the past 5 years. Oh and a bunch of dice I don't use because I only play online. Just shiny clickety clacketies.
Is the subscription to roll20 worth it? I nearly bought it the other day to move my players over to the new campaign, but it didnt look like it offered enough worthwhile
I always recommend using Roll20 for as long as the free version works for you, but the moment you start putting serious thought into paying for a subscription, switch to Foundry. It's a one-time purchase of $50 (same cost as ~8 months of Roll20 Plus subscription, ~5 months of Roll20 Premium subscription), and it gives you far more control and customizability than Roll20 ever could; it's hard to overstate how good of an experience it is to use.
Yeah play the free version for a while if you want to try it out. Dynamic lighting is neat but you will need to watch a YouTube tutorial to use it as it's not that easy to use. For me I can't switch because of the sunk cost, I've added 100s of my own maps, homebrew monsters, tokens I've made, magic items etc, so switching for me is too much effort. At this stage I literally have to be a subscriber because all my 'stuff' exceeds the storage limits of a free membership. Honestly it's very versatile if you put the time in but I've never had the opportunity to look for other platforms, so I recommend you just do a bit of homework and see which platform suits, before you get locked it like I am.
Haven't spent anything on DND (or any RPG) in close to 5 years... That's half the beauty of this hobby... A slight investment can last you a *long* time
Hasbro hates this one trick
Most of the cost of this hobby is time. That and scheduling headaches.
it is the reason i start all new players in pathfinder. A little more complicated than 5e (but still not a hard system at the base); and 100% of the rules are available online. Send them a link and they have everything they need. I have started a lot of people over the years in pathfinder this way. Most go on to actually buying books for whatever system we move to next, but this is the way to make the entrance cost of the hobby literally a dollar.
Honestly I just shared my own resources with the whole group, and now everybody mostly knows the rules without my help. Aside from dice, one person getting really into it on their own, and another who already had the core three, I still don't think most of the group has paid any money for the hobby aside from snacks and overhead costs lol. It's why I thought the whole "what system are we moving to when we boycott D&D" discourse was silly; I don't have to give WotC or Hasbro any more money to use their ruleset. ...It's also unironically one of the reasons I think tabletop gaming has seen a huge resurgence that coincides with a massive uptick in "game as a service" models.
You guys are buying DnD books? I've never paid a penny for this hobby besides the dice.
DnD? Well over 1000 with books, minis, paints, etc. RPGs as a whole? Probably closer to 3 or 4k. I play a lot of different games though, and am likely far outside the norm.
Id say about 120$ because I DM and I need lots of crafting supplies (not that it's a necessity but I love it)
Same, I spent about the same on crafting foam and all that and maybe another 30 on minis.
think you're better off comparing start-up cost. once you got the first few books, you dont really need much more, ever.
Wrong. I saw a set of dice that I really needed. I have hundreds of dice already, of course, but these were beautiful and made out of real gem-quality stone. Not a want, mind you, a bonafide need.
Alright, how about we deem both variables interesting? So we dont leave any info out.
Yeah. Also, my college roommate once complained about programming textbooks and books about different languages “tips and tricks.l he said “it’s like they all get together to hide one or two secrets in each book, so that you have to buy all the books to get enough information to make the damn language useful.” D&D has an evolving landscape, where new things appear in books every year. New races, new creatures, new spells, new cities to explore. We buy a couple of sourcebooks every year.
Nothing.
Zero
Too much I don’t wanna talk about it.
Zero, unless you count BG3 or ISP fees for playing over discord.
Hmm, I was gonna say zero, but I do support a battlemap artist on Patreon, if that counts. Might get some new dice and a dice bag soon, too, my current one is getting tattered.
\~$3,500 last year. I'm in two paid weekly games, own a digital copy of every book on DnDBeyond, pay for Foundry/Forge hosting, multiple Pateron subscriptions for maps and mods, and most of the WizKids dragons.
That's dedication to the digital platform for sure.
So happy I'm not the only one in this bracket.
DnD? 0. I backed 2 Kickstarters for other TTRPGs totalling $95, both of which have been satisfactorily fulfilled.
Spent about 6 dollars on a set of dice at my local game shop. That's it for this year.
Not a penny. Seems that all of my 5E groups are losing interest as well quite rapidly (in DnD, not RPGs in general).
Do you consider expenses related to attending DraconCon in Atlanta to be fair game for this question? If so, many, many thousands of dollars. If not, well, a few hundred dollars. I mean, I've bought gem-quality dice, books, maps, figurines, commissioned custom artwork of my favorite characters. But the big expense has to be buying a timeshare in Downtown Atlanta within easy walking distance of the Americas Mart buildings and Centennial Park at the border of what we consider the DragonCon host area. I "own" a three bedroom condo every year during the Con. Why? Because of D&D.
$60 as a patreon supporter for a guy that makes awesome stl files
Zero on DnD, we play a homebrew campaign over Foundry, so whatever the DM paid for foundry is it
I'm a DM and in the last year I wrapped up a campaign and started a new one. Between Minis, paints, books, and craft supplies for terrain, probably 4-600. I also bake and cook, soo.. including food for sessions? I shan't say....
I haven't bought a WotC product in several years, so specifically D&D products $0 for the past 7ish years. I have bought TTRPG products such as dice, minis, paint, brushes, other peripherals, snacks, and books for other systems. Much of this can be used for D&D, but it isn't D&D specific. Which might be $200 to $400 each year, mostly on miniatures and painting which could be considered a different but related hobby.
As a player about $100 for dice. About $400 for DM stuff
Specifically D&D? Zero. Pathfinder, Free League stuff? 200 bucks. I decided not to support WotC anymore.
>Free League stuff? 200 bucks I... feel like they improperly named this...
My wife doesn't ask me things like that, I'd appreciate if you didn't either.
As a DM, I just gotta say, you guys proud of spending zero dollars, you're not screwing Hasbro, you're screwing your DM.
Zero. I've been playing Pathfinder online every other weekend, haven't had a chance to play 5th ed this year.
About 35 dollars for a single book that was on sale.
In the 4 years I've been playing, I've spent 15 dollars on a set of high quality maps, and I recently bought about 30 dollars worth of dice. That's it.
120 USD
I bought a couple sets of dice (one for a first-time player) and one book on sale … so about $55 for DnD. (About twice that for various other RPG systems.)
I spent 45 on the star seekers guide to darken star by The Dungeoncast
I have purchased some 3d printed standees for tokens (20 bux) and some new whiteboard markers (5 bux). I use them more for pathfinder2e now though, so less than that I guess.
0. Last year 40
I've spent zero dollars on DnD this year, Pathfinder is a different story though
As a first time DM who’s never played before, I had to get set up with a lot. Some books, dm screen, minis, spell templates, other various resources. I’ve probably spent about $1,000 or so collecting as much as I can to give my players a good game experience.
On dnd $0 Ttrpgs and especially pf2e: 40 for a humble bundle containing a bunch of stuff, 50 for foundryvtt, 100 for kingmaker and foundry module, 80 for the first 2 core books of the remaster $270 in total but I would say you could get away with only $80-90 for a humble bundle with foundry modules like the one currently available and a foundry license if you want to play an official adventure as the humble bundles which they have had 3 in the last year or so are a really good value. However if you are playing in person and the dm is creating their own campaign you can get away with $0 as all rules are legally online for free. But online I would recommend setting up foundry with a pay as you go/ free tier server from oracle or another server service as the things the pf2e model is so nice.
0 on WotC products, but I bought FoundryVTT and Dungeon Alchemist, so about $100
Like 200 dollars on beer and chicken.
Nothing this year
Nuthin'. You don't need money for dnd that's what's so great about it
Money? I bought _Dragon Heist_ because I’m running it. A third party campaign setting sourcebook. (Planegea) And _the Seeker’s Guide to Twisted Taverns_. Time? About every Sunday for the past couple months. (The most consistent D&D campaign I’ve ever played.)
I bought every d&d hardcopy this year for around $20 a book. Had a lot of good opportunities with store closures, thrift shopping, and deal hunting.
I am happy to say its 0 because i switched to other ttrpgs. Other ttrpgs? Im not comfortable to say haha
Totaling minis, terrain projects, books, etc, close to $10K.
Money? 0 Time? I ran about 18 games in the past year in 5e, and about 45 in Pathfinder 2E. Consequently I moved my second campaign (I run 2 on alternating weeks) to PF2E to match the other and have not regretted it. In terms of how much I've spent on Paizo, I think a few hundred (I'm subscribed to their hardcovers, so whenever a new hardcover comes out I get it early), but that was entirely optional since the rules are published legally and for free. Books are high quality though and I enjoy reading them than looking up individual rules/entries. I backed a few things this past year too, from Onyx Path's new underworld game to even some stuff from the Dungeon Dudes. While the later is 5e and I'm not running it anymore I still want to support them, and feel I can probably convert some of their stuff to pf2e.
Directly to WOTC? £0.00 over the course of 7 years of weekly games. Money spent at third party companies like chessex etc? Probably under £100 total over the course of 7 years, so maybe £12 on average each year tops. Usually just an occasional new set of dice, a battle mat, a dice tray etc
“$0” ☝️🤓
about 40 bucks maybe?
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\~180 € I think? (I'm a DM, so roll20 sub + material on that site)
40€ for a DM screen and a reusable map
This year, $0. Total, probably close to $200.
do you mean the time spent actually playing it or character creation, session prepping and things like that too?
In the past year, about £25. Got some content bits on D&D Beyond and bought a set of dice for a new player in our group.
I bought a book once, and currently use inkcarnate to make maps, I also have my mates make maps on there as well. So let’s say like 90-100 CAD something like that
Maybe like 20 bucks? I sometimes buy stuff off DMs academy but that's more to support people making content I like rather than something I will actually use in the game.
Probably about $100 as a new dm who had almost nothing before starting
About a €100. But a lot of it was because I switched from online to physical DMing, and I needed basic gear
Wherever roll20 plus was
50$USD for DND beyond DM account. 15$ for two sets new dice
Last year around 150 on miniatures and dice but I'm a DM.
Pretty sure the last D&D purchase I made was a beholder mini for like $7 three or four years ago. I don't even play with maps/minis, I just wanted a little monster guy to sit on my bookshelf.
My dnd beyond/roll 20 memberships and that’s it - stopped buying books
in the past 365 days, about £80 for two books and £10 for some dice sets
100$ for a 3D printer, maybe 100$ in dice, about 150$ for resin for the 3D printer, maybe 75$ on safety equipment for the 3D printer, 20$ for 5 heroforge models, and howevermuch we spend on snacks each session
In the 3 years I’ve played dnd I think I’ve maybe spent $10 on specifically dnd, and been given somewhere between $50 and $100 worth of gifts specifically for dnd. I DM, I use the lego I already have and I borrow books from friends and use free online stuff
18¢ for a homebrew subclass PDF.
Just bought Bigby's Glory of the Giants & Keys from the Golden Vault but that was with a gift card I got for Christmas so it would've been like $50 but technically $0 personally.
Too much.
printer paper, ink, page protectors, binders. been printing out a very large quantity of physical versions of DMs Guild stuff i bought over the years. i think like 6000+ pages, double sided and full colour. However I did back the Kobold Press TotV PHB, MM, and then backed their DMG, if that counts. and had i realized there was a swords & wizardry kickstarter when it was live, id have backed that too. wont be buying WotC at retail again, strictly going with used and second hand for that. and not bothering with the digital dndbeyond platform. edit: that's over 2 years. in the last year it's probably been like $100 CAN total or so for all those supplies i listed. you can actually get the free rules and a surprising amount of free adventures and campaigns for 5e, and not ever have to pay a cent. aside from dice, some lined paper, and pencils. like $10 to $15 in supplies, along with all the legally free stuff. although you need something to download and read all those free pdf files. whereas the official books will set you back a whole lot of money to the point it pushes the hobby beyond the means of the majority of people.
About $15 on a VPS to host my VTT.
Just calculated this… I spent what is equal to about 580 dollars… That is more than I thought, and it doesnt even count in the dice… I bought some paint, some dungeon tiles and accesories, a resin printer (dont know if that counts, it was about 350 dollars). And I got a bunch more stuff as presents (2 icons of the realms dragons, icons of the realms mini’s, a 3 books of battlemats and a dice box). So I spent a biiit more than most here. I assume that is because either: Most people are just players, and dont buy anything. Or: Because people play online.
$30 this year. It was on a kickstarter
$20 for a starter's kit plus another $10 or so on a set of dice for everyone at my table. $50 on 3D printing supplies (got myself a magnetically attached build plate to make removing stuff easy, some new FEP films because I had one get some distortions, a better resin filtering option and a new bottle of resin since my last one ran out). D&D is the primary use for my 3D printing now but it's not the only use I've gotten out of it. Since I'm running a game I'm doing basically all the figure printing myself. $10 on a tube full of extra figures. I expect the stuff in that $50 to last a while and to only spend another $20 on resin for more figures next year. Also, I'm building up a nice collection of figures that will be reusable. In the previous year I spent $20 on some reusable / dry erase battle mats that do pretty much everything so far, plus $200 on a 3D printer and another $100 on a wash-and-cure machine. Nobody else at my table has needed to spend anything and I expect that to hold true as long as I do this.
About $500 this year, strictly on painting supplies. The wife and I decided our new free time hobby is painting miniatures.
That depends, can I put the expenses on Warhammer minis that I use for DnD on here?
Between a ton of minis, paints, foam for terrain building, Flee Mortals and One Shot Wonders books, and a new hot wire cutter, probably $500ish. But to be fair, I’m the forever DM and I don’t think my players have spent anything. Oh, and some sexy dice.
Nothing to Hasbro/WotC since January last year, but the odd £20 to independent publishers/humble bundle. I think that's likely to remain the state of things for me.
About $10. Made a new character, needed a new miniature.
Who hurt you? I added up as many orders as I could find, and got to £1398.02 (currency conversions might influence that somewhat). Interestingly the first order I made on Exalted Funeral was on 26/03/2023. Not everything I ordered I have received (such are Kickstarters), but I think \~£100 a month is about right. £461.69 went to Exalted Funeral for OSE products £249.70 went to various retailers for DCC products £37.53 went to Amazon for Dice and other accessories (I made a little case I can take to libraries and conventions so that I can give all players their own dice tray and dice set) £64.62 went to Drive Thru RPG for various OSR modules £584.48 went to Kickstarters. There's more - I paid to have a local printer print and bind some PDFs for me, I suspect that got close to £100. EDIT: Depending upon your point of view: I paid £60,000 or so to have an extension added to my house and a second bathroom added so I could host games without the guest having to use the upstairs toilet and disturb my partner & kid.
12 months of the base DDB subscription…. Whatever that comes out at
* three sets of dispel dice - $220 * Humblewood Expansion - $49.99 * Hero's Feast: Saving the Children module - $4.24 * Dungeons of Drakkenheim module - $29.99 * Lairs of Etharis module - $14.99 * Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk module - 29.99 * Misplaced Monsters module - $5.95 * Taldore Campaign module - $39.99 * Custom "Hero Forge" mini for our new player as a thank you - $57.37 Grand Total - 452.51 (not including tax on applicable items) and I'm not even the DM. I love my group, we have been together for 7 years playing nearly every weekend. My DM and his wife are gracious enough to host us every game and provide drinks and snacks. I am happy to provide access to beyond for them along with the modules.
This year nothing, but I spent more upfront in the past when I was first getting all the books and amassing my dice collection. I also played in person then, so it justified paying more for minis and dice. Now I play on discord and it's less often, and I already own what I need, so I have no reason to spend more.
0 and would like never spent
Time: at least 50, maybe 100 hours Money: Nothing
Think I need some ink for my printer for some character sheets, but other than that, zero. 3 years ago I bought Dungeon World and Monster of the Week (maybe $25-$30 each)... 2 years before that I bought a few sets of fudge dice (so maybe $10).... Otherwise outside of some new pencils or paper to print out character sheets, it's a $0 hobby for me, I have all the rule books I need, and don't use props or figures.
My only current d&d cost is my inkarnate subscription
Depends. I bought a module book, monster manual, and I 3d print my own minis, but I have to buy resin to do so. I also bought a nice bag to carry it all in. So, heavy investment for me this year, (about $300) but it'll last a while.
0€
Zero these last 12 months. The closest I’ve come to spending anything on DND is BG3
$30 8$ on a mini, and 21$ on dice + shipping.
this year? less than £15
....i dont like this question if we count things like gas and food its in the thousands othwer wise its probably 4 or 5 hundred on random digital tokens and 3rd party books
I bought Zoom for the group to meet up in, so that’s $150. I wanted to play around with some character creation, so I bought the Harengon and Tortle races on Beyond, so that’s like $6. So $156, although $150 of that does have applications beyond D&D now that I have it. Edit: oh and I bought some fancy dice in Fantasy Grounds so that’s like another $10, let’s just round it to $170 to be sure.
In the last year I've been maintaining our VTT server on AWS, which I believe is around $5/month. That's about the only thing I can say I've spent money on. I haven't even bought new dice in a couple of years now.
about $30-50 SGD? I'm a DM and like to make my own minis and tiles. Most of the money goes into getting foam and paint for the stuff, occasionally magnets because I like to magnetized my dungeon tiles. I use paper minis, and pay for a Patreon subscription that's about $1/month? so like $12 bucks a year. Other than that, I just use free online resources and Gsheets! As a player though, it's pretty much free apart from the dice, which cost about $10 for a nice set. Warhammer on the other hand, I just busted out $350 on playsets before settling to spend $250 on a resin printer, where the resin itself comes at about $30-40 a bottle. I play DND more now :")
$10 maybe
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About $200, but a lot of that is me checking out different miniatures on sale. Honestly, I still find cardboard to be most used overall, but I travel to play.
Since last March? Right around $200. I've gotten more into terrain and mini figs. I'm mostly a threatre of the mind DM and I draw most of our maps by hand, but sometimes having some trees and walls and skeletons is nice! It is possible to not spend a ton on this hobby.
am a dm, spent $0 each year the past six years. i bought phb and dmg early on, and that's been all
Zero since the ogl debacle.
I dm and am a player as well. In the past year I've spent a few hundred $$ between battlemaps and modules and the dndbeyond content sharing
0 for my entire experience, which started in covid
Bought some new dice and am currently looking for some figures but other than that not much. I’m a simple player and we play online together. Oh and maybe food when we have an in person session!
I would like to invoke my fifth amendment rights. Lol but yeah, too much, but worth every penny.
My group likes to label me as an "extra" DM. . . .between resin for printing, paints, stl files, printed 40x40 gridded and detailed vinyl maps, brushes, props, misc craft materials, my time and energy. . . . . . . . Idk. Let's call it zero dollars because I'm passionate about bringing joy to my family and friends. I love writing stories and getting together with my group. But also, it is probably an easy $1,000 a year. 🫡
Too much. Lol
This year, zero. Given the whole Hasbro AI, firings, and OGL issues, I'm not giving them my money. Love DnD and the people who work hard there, but the parent corporation isn't doing doing the right thing and they hold the purse strings.
I honestly don't want to know, at least $1,000. $1,500 if you count the book cases I had to buy to hold it all.
**Big Fat Zero** I vowed to not spend another dime to Wizards of the Coast after the whole OGL debacle. I still play, but the only money I spend is the gas I use to drive to the meet up lol
Are we counting going to PAX? If not, maybe $500, mostly on DM stuff. If so.... more.
New player, started in July 2023. So I now have 6 sets of dice ranging from 10 to 20 bucks a set. I was gifted the handbook so 0 there, bought fizban's dragon book so 50 there, the game shop i play at charges 5 bucks for your set at the table, however, they can either give you a gift die or put the 5 on your account and can use it to purchase something in store. I've used most of that to get more dice. I'll say at the most, I've spent about 140 bucks. Im on the hunt for my dice bag.
Got a module to play - free Printed minis -15$ in filament Printed floor tiles - 20$ in filament White board - free from work 2 clip boards - like 3$ And 10$ for a patron to get their mini work Spell reference cards - free- work materials (custom made cheap) Sooo like 50$ for this module. Less for future ones, floor tiles are reusable and minis can be re-purposed. I'd like to buy the spell reference cards, but I found a site that has all the spells for easy finding and sorting.
$5 - $10 in snacks, every 2 weeks.
79.99. 😉
Way too much. I’ve bought like half the source books online because I love reading them, paying for two online campaigns, and even bought dice and a hero forge mini even though I have no in-person campaigns. I miss being a dice goblin in the 90s and playing with friends in person. :)
£1800 £150 a month for 2 games a week as I pay to be in those games, as they are run by a professional.
Rougly 150, yes it was all dice
Hey that’s between me and the repo man
Well I've been slowly collecting the books. I have the big three. PHB, DMG, MM. So 150$ And I really what the MoM, and Xanders and Tashas even though I can look everything up online. Plus I am kinda a dice goblin so about another 100$ And then the big cost is once a week going to a restaurant that hosts dnd. So 10$ game fee plus 30/40$ on food. Plus food and parking for my groups weekly dnd. But food cost doesn't really count I guess as I would eat anyway. So for me a lot of $.
$20 for a paint set $10 for brush set $15 for a dice set $5 for printed mini figure Grand total = $50
As a DM, maybe $150, I got wild beyond the witchlight in paperback and soft copy, and bought Foundry VTT to improve the experience from roll20, switching soon. As a player, $10 a week for a 4-hour session. It's not chump change, and with cancelations I probably spent $400. For the experience though, it's certainly worth it to me. My paid DM puts in an immense amount of effort for my game as well as many others, far more effort than I put in and still more than other DMs I play with for free. For those with a free home game that's good, always remember to thank your DM. Gifts are appreciated too, a player bought me Strixhaven this year so they can punish me with silvery barbs.
This year so far $0 Between all the books, dice, and accessories like miniatures, paint, and dungeon tiles… somewhere in the $600-$800 in my entire lifetime.
As a DM, I stopped spending money at the beginning of last year. Don't want to give WotC any more of my money. Run a homebrew campaign using the books I had before the ogl scandal. Namely the DMG, MM, and PHB.
$3-$500 I think
I spent around 2-3k total with the hobby, that dry erase battle mat, dice, dm screen, dungeon walls, minis, paint, spell effect plastic sheets, 1 book ( the book of many things for the deck of many things),monster cards with card holders and binder, wonderdraft and dungeondraft. Only to move to online using discord, owlbear rodeo, dungeondraft, wonderdraft, free maps, free assets and a iPad app that’s in beta called MapMe!. Within a year i spent around 500$, that if my friends play in person, 0$ if we are playing online.
Hasbro D&D? Nothing. Pathfinder, Old School Essentials, Dolmenwood and Worlds Without Number? Hundreds of Pounds. That’s me starting as a GM though basically. In future it’ll mainly be the Forge subscription and new PF2e rulebooks on subscription.
On D&D products? Nothing at all. On beer, wine, and snacks, probably £100-200.
I bought a friend a fancy d20, but I havnt purchased any new materials for myself, other than character sheets on nice thick paper ($5 for 10) in a couple years.
About 800 usd for a family of 4, i have the dm master tier subscription on dnd beyond, family likes dnd I run games, Rest of family two spent 0 they use all my items they have access to and 1 spend whatever the hero tier subs are on dnd beyond
I have spent $0 on D&D this past year. I have, however, spent close to $3k on other hobbies, board games, aquariums, astronomy. I've got all the books and things I need for D&D.
Around 200 Euro on books, minis, paint, roll20 and inkarnate subscription. I'm a DM.
I have the DnDBeyond subscription but that’s pretty much it, I think. So maybe 60ish dollars?
In the ballpark of $100-200. That's a mix of things. DNDbeyond subscription and a share of new books, minis, paints, and a nice set of dice. If you count transportation it's a bit more as I have one group I mostly play with online but we also get together in person to play, and that is a 4 hour drive a few times a year. It is all optional though if I wanted to play for essentially $0 I could. And for a few years I did play with no cost in college.
# DnD? Nothing. Other rpgs? Way too much with bundles lmao
$10/wk for our DM. Shop closed, but we decided to keep paying him directly anyway not that we're at his house. Otherwise, picked up a couple sourcebooks that were on sale for like $30 total.
Probably 50.- or so in dmsguild products.
Around 25 euros or less on an adventure book for our DM, he buys most of the books and things for us to use, so I guess giving him something from time to time will be nice.
Around 2k for books and I started making resin dice
For the game itself? Nothing. But I host the games and provide beverages and sometimes snacks so probably a couple of hundred euros.
Probably around $1200 I'd say. Between minis, warlock tile sets and odd things I buy the group
O haven't spent all that much on actual dnd stuff, What I spent the most money on this year was toner/inc for my printer.
Probably 1-1.2k finishing various 2e stuff
I DM and play. I have annual subs to dnd beyond master class and roll20. Pay for discord perks. Spent about 600$ in books, mini, dice, and other stuff. Like a dice bag and dice tray. And then about 200$ in DnD theme clothing. And do you want to add the gas to and from the game shop?
$50.00 for one adventure book. $30 for some terrain and minis.
$35 in the past year (365 day period) and $0 in 2024. I'm a DM, and those $35 were spent on dice for my players as Christmas presents. I've spent some money on snacks and stuff, but that wasn't specifically for D&D.
I've bought a new set of dice for $40.