Just woke up from my first night home in almost 2 weeks and I enjoyed it. For the sake of change, this post won’t be about mental illnesses or politics. Instead, it’s going to be about tabletop gaming, rpgs specifically.
Role playing games tend to simultaneously be the cheapest and the most expensive hobby there is. Why do I say that? It’s because you don’t need much to start playing, just a set of polyhedral dice, a pice of paper and a core source book, which you can download free from the internet, though that last one can be unethical at the least and illegal at worst. Now if prefer a physical copy, then that could eventually run you into hundreds of dollars because of all the source books out there, fancy dice, apps that help you create a character, battle maps and miniatures and more.
I personally fall under that last category, but that’s ok. I try to buy used books and miniatures whenever I can. Also, if you buy half pound/ whole pound of dice from amazon or other dealers, you end up spending less per set of dice. However, if you invest your money into programs for your tablet, like hero lab for iPad and others for android, you generally don’t need dice as Herolab let’s you roll from the app. It’s not cheap, but the pc version is great for DMs, and the iPad version is great for players.
Have fun out there, sometimes you go into an adventure expecting not to have fun, but once they start they tend to love it. There’s more I can get into but my eyes are a bit blurry.
If anyone has any questions or comments, I’d be happy to answer them in the comments section.
~Sam
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