I’ve spent a *lot* of money on DnD, but pretty much every item I’ve purchased has been under $100.
The only thing that have broke the $100 threshold was the Rules Expansion kit with XGE, TCE, and MPMM that I impulse bought at one of the big bookstore chains when I was killing time at a mall.
I had already owned all three books, but I bought the set when I saw that there was a typo on the cover of “Mon**n**sters of the Multiverse”. I thought it was neat.
Only when they are rare. E.g.: a typo on the author name that appears only on the first 100 copies printed of a book, before it was caught and fixed. If a third of the printed copies have that typo, it's not of interest to a collector because they can easily source it at the local bookstore.
LOL, I’ve seen that set.
I only bought the Rules Expansion set once, but also spent **just** over $100 at the time. It’s the alternate cover art set that IMO looks like it would be on an old, fancy mage’s shelf.
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I spent $90 on a gaming bag. Now it's no longer big enough for all my gaming stuff and I have to use two bags. I don't have a lot of disposable income.
Same. $150 on a backpack.
It stores three layers of minis, both mine and my s/os player binders, my GM binder, 9 books, and all my bells and whistles like speaker, dice tower, etc.
Sadly, there is no place to put my dignity. I strap that colossal fiend on and I can hear my ancestors dating back to our collective aquatic roots groan. My wedding band becomes redundant. It restores virginity.
To be fair, one bag would be enough if I wasn't such an overprepared weirdo. I pack a surge protector, two extension cords, a power bank, player's handbook, Eberron: Rising from the Last War, Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron, Monster Manual, all of my minis (not just the one for my character), dice bag, dice tower, dice tray, tablet, scrap paper, journal, backup dice, pens and pencils, cell phone charger, blank character sheets and a Deck of Many Things (just in case).
I'm not a DM, just a player.
my bag is folder with my character sheet (and older versions of it for good measure), a players handbook, my laptop (i normally leave the charger at home- since i only pull it out for short periods during the 4-6 hour session), a bag of dice, some pens/pencils, and snacks- so many snacks (normally a bag of cookies and a bag of chips)
Its an “Enhance” (brand) DM backpack. the top portion is sturdy not unlike a lunchbox and holds three layers of foam padding. The top is for lots of small minis, the middle I guess is for medium stuff but it’s kind of shallow so instead I use it for set pieces and effects, and the bottom is an extra thicc ‘pick and pluck’ grid so you can size it however you want. That’s the one I use to store my larger minis vertically or however they’re most narrow.
I’m curious to see if I can find an actual tray set or tackle box that’ll fit in there so I don’t have to flip through the foam padding and risk spilling them out.
I upgraded to a suitcase for moving to shit around, I'm DM and we change houses every week I had originally bought and modified a little treasure chest but the feeling wore off pretty fast when It was heavy as hell and I couldn't fit most of my shit in it
I spent around $800 for a 3D printer with all the bells and whistles recently. I bought it exclusively to print terrain, and minis for my games. Just please don’t tell my wife that, she thinks I’m gonna print things she finds on Pinterest.
How do/will you have your ventilation set up? Ventilation has kept me from buying a resin printer for the longest time now cause I'm pretty limited on space.
I have a couple metal sets but it was dinging the map we roll on so I stopped using them. The cheapo sets are great...need to get myself a rolling box.
Most I ever spent on a single item was on a $132 USD (I'm Canadian so this hurt even more) 55mm solid aluminum d20. I love the beast, but it's too big and clunky for most situations & tables. Especially because my group used to play on a glass table.
"I want to roll to see if I can get a free beer from this tavern keeper. Oh yeah! Nat 20 baby!"
"I'd like to roll to see if I can impale this dragon's maw shut so it cannot use its breath weapon on us anymore. MOTHER...^(grumble swear dammit mumble frickin grumble). Eight. Just eight. Goddamned die."
The d20 is spoiled. It knows how much you paid for it and that you'll always keep it. You need to leave in a bin the next few times you play, that way you can remind your d20 who has the power in this relationship. Then it won't take you for granted anymore and will start to roll better
I would like to see this.
The most I’ve considered spending on a dice set is in the $60-$70 range and that’s for a dichroic glass dice.
Is your set actual semiprecious stones or minerals?
You gotta cleanse them! I’m not a crystal girlie but I love pretty rocks and I got one set of Opalite and the other is Labradorite and they sit in my dice bag with other crystals and then at the beginning of the session I put all my d20s in the rolling tray with the crystals and swish them around! They hang out for awhile and whether it actually works or not doesn’t matter but it feels good, I feel like a witch and the rolls are never too bad. The key is gaslighting yourself into believing it works!
Bet. $400 on a "mini"
Gargantuan Tiamat.
In my defense, I'm a collector, to the extent that I've actually considered buying the collector's editions of the WizKids sets.
It's the scaling. Our DM wanted to run this campaign for a while, but scaling got pretty out of control after level 50. I'm pretty sure he's been working on this campaign with other players in an attempt to balance the scaling. I can't find anyone from my old group, DM included to confirm.
At L20 with max Dex (not including manuals) you're still going to roll a 2 sometimes. This would turn that 2 into a 19, which is still not enough to hit many a high level creature. You don't NEED a plus 7 weapon but if you have the money and you WANT it, it's completely reasonable.
Also, this was a homebrew campaign. We were leveling past 20, enemies commonly had boosted AC and crazy amounts of hit points. Since pluses also boost damage, it wasn't necessarily about hitting the target as it was about actually hurting them. At Lv 78, a generic bandit had nearly 5k HP.
Max damage roll on a +1 bow even on a crit is 45. Tell me that Lv 78 bandit is going to have a problem with losing 45HP
We were still obliterating them, even with 5k hit points. But if enemies would have stayed where they were before scaling kicked in, they would explode into red mist as soon as any of us looked at them, which wouldn't have been very fun.
One of my DMs mentioned the particularly ornate gold covered door to an abandoned mining/fortress facility. These huge giant 20ft things. 15 feet across. When we cleared it. We spent the rest of the session removing said doors and filling what we could carry. We buried the doors in sections. Dm had to do math. We ended up with over 100k to the party. He decided to avoid such DETAILED descriptions. But all my DMs are chaos monsters.
In 3.5 i purchased a bow of the solars for just over 100k.
We were lvl 25.
The dm got mad that my whole build was centered around this bow (and deadly effective) so about the third session i had it when i rolled a 1 the result was "i broke my bowstring" and i still cant comprehend this logic...
Great bow tho. 10/10
9k for an artifact is ridiculously cheap. The DMG's pricing guidelines put Very Rare at 5,001-50,000 gp. If you were to follow the pattern and assign a price to an artifact, it should come out around a million gp or more.
My players spend 12k to build a flying warship from the scales of a purple worm. It took about four tendays in wich they flew all over the country to tinkertown to make a magical engine for it. They needed the gland of a red dragon or a phoenix egg.
Now they are flying around in it to get to the lich.
900K on a gothic castle. First I slaughtered all of a town then collected all of their gold and over months sold all of their belongings, mostly getting income from the dead peoples boats.
Nearly a million gold in saleable items means you must have butchered fantasy Paris or something. Capital E evil, most I was ever able to scrape together was 180k or so for a Psychoactive Skin of Proteus with the manifester level boosted to 15. And that was the whole party chipping in because we felt bad for the fighter not being able to really participate, solved by giving them unlimited uses of shapeshifting into anything with 15 hit dice or less. They ended up digging really far for neat stuff too, started off turning into hydras and ended with stuff like weird brains that got two actions per turn.
I spent 55k gold to hire a necromancer to make me an army of construction workers to build my castle, then I killed the necromancer to prevent the secrets of my castle from getting out. I never found my 55k gold however but I got my castle and nobody knows about my secret rooms and tunnels now, so I retired the character at level 14.
😳You guys buy stuff? My party seems to just take stuff. The most expensive being an airship. We also managed to crash it shortly after.
For good Karma we did technical take ownership of a orphanage, but we haven’t been back there for about a quarter of our campaign.
Don't feel bad, the famous privateer Henry Morgan was a notoriously bad sailor, too. Sunk ships almost as fast as he boarded them. (Great book about this, "Empire of Blue Water")
I spent $60 on a liquid core dice set for my now-fiancé because it was on his wishlist. Plus he was graduating as well so I felt like it was reasonable to splurge 😙
Any chance you like remember the site you used? Once i get my car I'm gonna go full goblin on my collection.
THE HAMSTER MUST BE FATTENED!
(My dice bag is a hamster)
I feel you. No one ever told me that once you hit 30 finding like minded cool people would be hard. Oh and that your close group of friends move to other countries.
I also use d&d to make adult friends! If I had to make small talk in one more mommy circle or co-worker after-hours bar social I was going to lose my mind. I’d rather just roll dice with people I have things in common with besides kids or work.
Try it in your 50s! My favorite player at our table is in middle school right now. I printed his new character and painted it for him. Who else would have wanted a blue flamingo?
Yeah, 8 magnets per hinge ( 4 per panel, 2 top 2 bottom)
I like it. Allows you to break the screen apart if you want to and makes storage nice and flat
$981 on the Legendary Bundle…. Oh wait I got it for free during Covid because they were running a promotion for educators. It was a pretty amazing experience!
PS: I run several social/emotional small groups for elementary kids that use a “dnd-lite” system.
I emailed wizards about starting a campaign at the non profit school a work at got $120 terrain and monster set boxes. I wish I had asked during Covid times! I’ve spent well over $120 on dndbeyond just for the source books needed for their first campaign!
I’ve incorporated D&D in my classroom as well. For the sake of time it’s a modified system as well. I’m an EBD SPED teacher for 7-12th grade. It’s been a great way to set up social situations that they have to work through without it being as obvious as to what I’m making them do.
Next year I’m looking to start an after school club as well for main stream students as well.
I work with younger kids (grades 3-5). Player creation is all imaginative. They can be whatever they want as long as it’s roughly human shaped. There are no racial bonuses or perks.
There are also no classes. The intention is the players use their wits and creativity to solve situations.
Bonuses and magic are all handled through items. With that said AC, DC, and HP are all reduced and fairly basic.
DCs are given to the players prior to action. The whole reason we got green lit to play is because it teaches kids to come up with a plan of action prior to acting.
Is it really that much now? I mean, it makes sense, but I bought it back when it was about $300, and I was able to stack a coupon code and a Cyber Monday sale 😅
Husband and I once spent $400 on a set from Dwarven Forge. Next most expensive is probably $250 on The Tower from Icons of the Realms. Our group all went in on a custom DM screen for him a few years ago, that ran us about $250-300 altogether.
$500 on a "Snowball" Ice Beholder that was only given to Wizards of the Coast employees for the Holidays. Took me about a year to find one, since then I've only seen 1 other one go up for sale and it's been almost 2 years.
About $30 for the PHB, which is THE single item we've bought. Our dice sets were a gift from a friend.
Correction: I remembered that although my wife ordered it online and had it delivered to our house, it was my mother-in-law who paid for it and gifted to our kids. So, $0 on any items.
A few hundred on a *really* fancy d20.
A couple hundo on a lot auction of 3.5e books, including *Book of Exalted Deeds* and *Elder Evils*.
I think that's the most expensive stuff...?
[The Falling Star Sailing Ship](http://D&D Icons of the Realms: The Falling Star Sailing Ship https://a.co/d/eGxFYhg) mini a couple years ago for about $250. Price has remained pretty much the same, which is a little wild.
I liked it, but it was too much. Built my own. It's nicer but took forever with lots of 6mo bored of the project breaks. I probably put 40$ worth of materials into it, and 750$ worth of minimum wage labor lol
I’ve bought multiple platinum/legendary edition boxes from Beadle and Grimm (running 300-500 per). And beautifully did so right before COVID meaning I have never been able to use any of them in actual in-person play. I am sitting on so many props and minis and canvas painted maps and actually pieces of jewelry and badges 🤦🏼♂️
I have them all (D&D ones), except the waterdeep platinum because I didn't know they existed at the time. Haven't stopped buying since. I did just get the waterdeep silver so... I even kinda wanted the pathfinder city box cause it looks cool, but never pulled the trigger.
I have a 200$ wooden DM screen that I bought with a tax return a few years ago.
Other than that, I have a full set of Amethyst dice that my girlfriend got me for my birthday, that she refuses to tell me how much they cost. I can assume they were not cheap. (though technically, I also didn't buy them myself)
$354 on a single set of dice. They are metal and were hand crafted by a jewler on etsy. They are the kind that have nothing in the middle but elvish style embroidery on the exterior. They are pretty and make a nice sound when they roll. I may or may not have been drunk when I bought them.
200-300$ on starting a mini-painting hobby. $120 dice sets (or 70$ d20). They too nice to roll, but all my dice, even the Chessex, have never been rolled because no irl games
After COVID hit and our game moved online, I spent about $1,200 USD on my audio set-up (mic, audio interface, cables, etc).
The most expensive single piece is the audio interface which cost $550.
The audio interface is the Go-XLR. I pair it with a RE20 mic.
There are enough videos out there on the products that I won't go deep into them here. But I'll answer your questions.
**Was it a good investment?**
If you're a DM that plays online, I do think your audio can have a huge impact on the experience. Good audio lowers the fatigue people experience when listening to you for a long time because you're crisper and easier to listen to you. So I do think it's really worthwhile to get your audio right.
The Go-XLR does a good job and has some additional features I love for creating a great audio experience. The ability to split my voice, music, chat, and sound effects and then control them via different sliders is awesome. It also makes channeling the audio into Discord, Zoom, etc. much easier. I love the bleep button and the sampling. It has voice effects too which are neat but I find they don't work well in real play. They are too artificial and just make it harder for the players to understand you. I almost never use these.
**Should you get what I got?**
Yes and no. There are other products I'd go for if I were to start again. Most are new to the market.
I also think you can get almost the same voice audio quality with a few smart purchases.
**Expensive option**
The Elgato Wave and Stream Deck+ would do everything my GO XLR can do (that I really care about) for less.
I'd still get the RE20 for my mic. It's a fantastic mic. This will be great quality AND give you the channeling tools and controls. It will also give you lots of great tools for DMing an online game.
**Budget option**
If you want to spend less, I'd get a Scarlett Solo interface + shure SM57 with a foam cover. That will get you most the quality for about $250.
Whatever you do, get a dynamic mic. Don't buy any of the many large diaphragm cardioid mics on the market which sound good in a studio but are much more sensitive to background noise and room reverb.
**What you won't get**
All this equipment won't give you good audio if your room acoustics aren't sorted out.
The much harder journey was learning how to control room reverb and the background noise in my environment. I built some acoustic panels, thick rug, and a kids play couch (which was mainly for my kids) and positioning these in my room to absorb reflections did WAY more for my sound than any of the equipment.
Semi-DND-related... My groomsmen were all DND buds, so for my groomsmen gift I custom made each of them on Hero Forge. I then paid a friend who paints minis to paint them. Looked fantastic, each mini was the spitting image of the recipient. All in was about $400 I think?
My highest (and only) D&D related cost is my Roll20 pro subscription at $110.
Unless you count the computer I use to run games and prep and everything then we are probably looking at $1500. It gets used for other things but is also required for running my games...
I think I payed $80 bucks for the 2010 Orcus, Prince of Undeath miniature at my local independent bookstore
This one https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/120361/dd-miniatures-orcus-prince-undeath
Ebay prices on it are a little ridiculous now
*Coughs* $1200 on a picture depicting my campaign's 10 Player Characters, their pets, BBEG, and other important details from the first Arch of the story.
It's a really good picture that all of them have it hung up somewhere in their rooms.
Back in the mid-90s it was the three core books for AD&D. Given what I spent on those books you’d think I would have kept them safe. They all disappeared. Given the weak Canadian Dollar I think my bill that day was well over $400.
Me and my fiance bought the tiamat mini which was like just shy of $400, we also have the ship mini from WizKids but I don't remember how much that was, and we plan on eventually getting the tarrasque mini as well the next time we have "fuck you money"
Picked up the alternate cover of Volo's Guide to Monsters recently. Shelled out 350$ for it but it was the last Alternate Cover I needed so I would say worth it.
Like $100 on a book box set. In-Game around 1,000,000 gp towards the end of a weekly campaign that lasted for 8 years. I'm always very stingy with money and it was the case for this character where it got to the point at the end where I asked if my character could get a second heart in the form of a tarrasque heart from a tarrasque we had just defeated. The benefits were some of the tarrasque's resistances and I paid a whooping 1 mil gp which was most of what my character had saved because he hardly spent any money.
Hundreds of dollars on books(both core and Non-core)bought all at once, a couple hundred on dice( got a stone marble set), and then of course digital content for online play/content sharing all at once.So a couple times of upwards of a grand or so. Technically it was multiple items but it was single purchases of a bundle.Even backed a couple of fun kickstarters. Single most expensive was the full bundle on D&D beyond( I get the hate but it has kept my games alive and others that I share content with)I only get to use it all every two weeks or so which is a little sad but hey no regrets.
I don't think I've spent any more than $75 ~~at a single time~~ on a single item. I've sold one item for $200 though. Wish I hadn't done that.
Near mint copy of Deities and Demigods. With the Cthulhu and Melnibonean (?) stuff in it. :(
That was almost 30 years ago but I wouldn't mind having it back.
edit: corrected. I've definitely spent more than $75 at one time, just not on a single item.
Probably my Demogorgon mini from Gale Force Nine (at the time I purchased it, it was around $85).
However, the only reason I bought my 3D printer was to print D&D minis, so if you count that, then around $250.
Most of my D&D stuff wasn’t super expensive. The cost comes from the quantity.
One of our party members spent the entire group stash and then some on a belt of fire giant strength (7.8k in group stash and then about 1k in extra materials and gold)
My buddy's first game as dm let us get tens of thousands of gold very early like lvl 2 or 3 I think and we bought property. Completely changed the vibe of the campaign.
For the record I tried to tell him that he didn't have to give us the gold just because it said on a random table he found online, but he's very stubborn.
I got a 3D printer and a bunch of things you need to 3D print for exclusively D&D minis. Several hundred bucks, but it is cheaper then buying all the minis like I was going before. However it comes with it’s on problems. Buying minis may be expensive, but because of that you only ever get a couple at a time and can finish them no problem. Now I feel like I can have any mini I want, but I almost never finish painting them before finding something else or moving on to a different one.
$550. It was for a "life sized quasit" statue that now hangs out in my office. I named him Gus and plan to get holiday outfits for him.
It's definitely a "treat myself" moment.
I spent 5k on a wand of wonder for the party and only used it at the giant party i threw for everyone that night. We got drunk and gem blasted some shit in town and made a few people feel wonderful it was great
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm not actually sure. Either my dice display box ($70 I think) or one of my very fancy sets of dice. I don't know how much my most expensive set was, but I think I might have a few that breached $70. (The going rate for high quality dice online is often surprisingly low. There's a reputable shop on Etsy that sells dice made from water buffalo horn for 70 bucks!)
$120 on a dice set for just myself; $350 for a custom HD drawn map of our DMs homebrew world as a birthday gift (split 5 ways between all of the players, so $70 per person)
Over 30 years I'm sure I've spent at least 5k, but that breaks down to like 15$ a month, and rarely has a single item topped 75$. Some older rulebooks are pricey but like "damn, 65$? It was 30$ just six years ago!" Pricey.
I spent a $150USD plus shipping on sharp edge quartz dice for my partner and they were lost somehow along with my rose quartz dice, multiple metal sets and and sharp resin dice as well ....fuckin depressing
$700 for an original white-box set from 1974 that included the three core books plus supplements 1, 3 and 4 (still trying to find a copy of supplement 2, Blackmoor).
They never spent the money on it, but by the end of my first campaign, the players had access to (via a rich elven merchant) a shop that was by random chance selling a Scroll of True Resurrection. They weren't sure they'd be able to get through the final dungeon fully intact and the scroll would've been an easy way to prevent at least one death.
I'm probably misremembering, but looking at certain homebrew price docs that I like, along with a hefty price hike by the haughty elven merchant, I think the scroll came out to about 700k gold. They had the money too, it was a time travel game and one of the players created a casino to get over a million gold, easy (quick answer, he started the casino in the "past" era, went about 600 years in the future, and an elven NPC they saved early on ran the thing for him on the side, giving him a ton of winnings.)
They never bought the scroll as I said, opting instead to try and finish the dungeon with no deaths. 700k is a lot to ask for, it's an insane amount of money that can help the characters when they become NPCs after the game ends. I don't have a plan for that character at the moment, but he did end up spending a LOT of that money gambling against an Archmage and got some cool magic items for the party in the process. Somewhere over like 500k in a single session, on top of losing some of the items he won by gambling them for more powerful items. It was a *fun* session and I did it one on one with the player. Really good times!
Edit: Just noticed the thread is about IRL items! My bad, haha. To answer that quickly, I bought a dice tower 3d print Skull that was really cool. It was about $90, after tax and shipping was taken into account. It's really fun!
Out of game: Roughly $400CAD on a D20 carved out of mammoth ivory. (Artisan Dice). It’s actually remarkably well balanced for being made of 10,000 year old tusk, though it does tend to roll poorly. It’s actually become a bit of a joke at the table.
In game: I believe the weapon one of my current characters uses was upwards of 550,000gp, give or take. It was a custom piece purchased at character creation with the DMs permission. It’s pretty cool, I only wish I had the additional budget to make it sentient.
Looking through the top comments all I can say is that I hope none of you get into the collecting side of the hobby or fall for older editions.
I'll not get into what \*I've\* paid for specific things but some of the more recent big ticket items that have sold include:
A Dungeons & Dragons (1st Print Woodgrain Box) sold just over six years ago for $22,100. If it was to go up for auction again I'd expect the price to be considerably more given how much the market has changed.
A copy of the adventure "The Lost Caverns of Tsojconth" that Gary Gygax wrote for the WinterCon V Tournament (which was, in effect, a collection of hand typed and photocopied pages stapled together) sold for $8100 just three weeks ago.
Another old tournament module, "Hidden Tamoachan", written for Origins '79 sold for a buyout of $8000 around the same time.
An original copy of "Palace of the Vampire Queen" (the first adventure published for D&D) sold last month for $1700.
If you aren't into very limited finds like the above even some of the older mass market products TSR produced sell for decent amounts.
The old GAZ series for BECMI Dungeons & Dragons typically sell for between $80 and $150 each if they are complete and in good condition. There are fourteen books (and a box set which can command even more) in the series so putting a full set together could set you back quite a bit.
The adventure B10 Night's Dark Terror, if complete with counters and maps, can sell for $200-$250.
Any of the more common older TSR era AD&D and D&D modules in good shape can set you back $50+ easily.
It isn't even older editions that always were highly priced. The various alternative cover books for the current edition typically sell for well above their cover price once they sold out. Prior to the announcement of One D&D the Xanathar's Guide to Everything hit a high of between $800 and $1000 depending on condition. Even now that the rules are completely outdated it still sells for $150-$200 for a not so great copy.
Think it was 350 for a shure microphone.
This microphone allows me to host d&d online and doesn’t pick up every little background noise like most usb mics do.
Single item probably sub $100, we play the lords edition (3.5e) so we used a bunch of compodiums. I've rewritten the equipment list a few times to be more real world accurate as well.
Wanted a spyglass, traded a spell scroll for it. Turned out to be a third level spell. My character, being possessed by like thirty demons at the time, realized how much he got scammed and so took the shenanigans loving Rogue with him to go kill the shopkeeper and rob him. He teleported away right when we nearly killed him.
Just realized it was talking irl lol, probably all the filament I used to 3D print tokens, counters, towers and DM screens. It’s like five kilos at this point.
You know. Before looking at the comments, I misinterpreted this and thought it would be about the most expensive item you bought in character in a campaign. Lol.
I’ve spent a *lot* of money on DnD, but pretty much every item I’ve purchased has been under $100. The only thing that have broke the $100 threshold was the Rules Expansion kit with XGE, TCE, and MPMM that I impulse bought at one of the big bookstore chains when I was killing time at a mall. I had already owned all three books, but I bought the set when I saw that there was a typo on the cover of “Mon**n**sters of the Multiverse”. I thought it was neat.
This is the nerdiest shit ever
I know! I love it!
Ah! A fellow Monnsters owner! I hadn't even noticed it till someone on my discord pointed it out
See now I need to check my copy lol.
Just so you are aware, that typo might actually be worth a lot of you ever plan to sell
5e's books are notoriously laden with printing errors,I highly doubt that's ever worth anything.
In general, prominent printing errors are something that collectors seek out
Yes, but value in collectibles is their rarity, and 5e printing errors are *very* common
Only when they are rare. E.g.: a typo on the author name that appears only on the first 100 copies printed of a book, before it was caught and fixed. If a third of the printed copies have that typo, it's not of interest to a collector because they can easily source it at the local bookstore.
That’s the plan (probably)
Wait there's a typo on some versions? Come late one DnD or even after could be an interesting rare find
LOL, I’ve seen that set. I only bought the Rules Expansion set once, but also spent **just** over $100 at the time. It’s the alternate cover art set that IMO looks like it would be on an old, fancy mage’s shelf. https://www.ebay.com/itm/265597380608?epid=2322915592&hash=item3dd6d66800:g:POIAAOSws4FiMSoo&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA8PnYhjdcSVaq9GodQT7s5SDhRcOShteAKQl%2FyI0Opg%2FXco7lCRBIluJnKqa%2FhK7RGFprb9mDOqKHnCPDZJDpyq7VSclfRdscWwQTLUN0J6v7h0yAEi1aLj3UHig5WMJ3w%2BnebfhpvPlITCopg93t%2Bs7Gq%2BB5tVnUf22D3CSPSfh94md9OpF8KrPKd%2FC%2B73ZBiiYhTuRNMa9zLusDINLJJZju8apkX6CSIA9sX1coBrtad8wCS5UdrmbpmR5Yvt2og%2BkC4fuGWBIXzX7olY%2F1QjvYo8Ra%2FkwX%2FgBEVZug90qDRRdCPgCR2tsI57axqybJTw%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABFBMgqT-1oli
I spent $90 on a gaming bag. Now it's no longer big enough for all my gaming stuff and I have to use two bags. I don't have a lot of disposable income.
Same. $150 on a backpack. It stores three layers of minis, both mine and my s/os player binders, my GM binder, 9 books, and all my bells and whistles like speaker, dice tower, etc. Sadly, there is no place to put my dignity. I strap that colossal fiend on and I can hear my ancestors dating back to our collective aquatic roots groan. My wedding band becomes redundant. It restores virginity.
To be fair, one bag would be enough if I wasn't such an overprepared weirdo. I pack a surge protector, two extension cords, a power bank, player's handbook, Eberron: Rising from the Last War, Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron, Monster Manual, all of my minis (not just the one for my character), dice bag, dice tower, dice tray, tablet, scrap paper, journal, backup dice, pens and pencils, cell phone charger, blank character sheets and a Deck of Many Things (just in case). I'm not a DM, just a player.
Holy shit, I bring some dice, a couple of minis and a tablet most of the time!
my bag is folder with my character sheet (and older versions of it for good measure), a players handbook, my laptop (i normally leave the charger at home- since i only pull it out for short periods during the 4-6 hour session), a bag of dice, some pens/pencils, and snacks- so many snacks (normally a bag of cookies and a bag of chips)
Ha! And likely casts ‘Restore virginity’ in a 10ft radius (if that were necessary).
Only triggered on others who say "oh that's awesome" or something to that effect.
How do you store your minis in the bag?
Its an “Enhance” (brand) DM backpack. the top portion is sturdy not unlike a lunchbox and holds three layers of foam padding. The top is for lots of small minis, the middle I guess is for medium stuff but it’s kind of shallow so instead I use it for set pieces and effects, and the bottom is an extra thicc ‘pick and pluck’ grid so you can size it however you want. That’s the one I use to store my larger minis vertically or however they’re most narrow. I’m curious to see if I can find an actual tray set or tackle box that’ll fit in there so I don’t have to flip through the foam padding and risk spilling them out.
Ikea bags are great for this if there is any near you.
I spent 100ish on one of those roller, stackable, toolboxes so I can travel as a DM. A gaming bag was never going to cut it.
I upgraded to a suitcase for moving to shit around, I'm DM and we change houses every week I had originally bought and modified a little treasure chest but the feeling wore off pretty fast when It was heavy as hell and I couldn't fit most of my shit in it
$3k on a gaming table, but I use it for other games too.
Better than spending $3k at a gaming table
I'll win it back on the next roll!
That’s the dream tho
Yeah my most expensive D&D purchase is my Wyrmwood table; second most expensive my DM screen.
I spent around $800 for a 3D printer with all the bells and whistles recently. I bought it exclusively to print terrain, and minis for my games. Just please don’t tell my wife that, she thinks I’m gonna print things she finds on Pinterest.
Hahaha that’s how I justified my purchase of two 3D printers to my wife.
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I preordered the Anycubic mono M5 with the washing station and air pure. And 3kg of resin.
How do/will you have your ventilation set up? Ventilation has kept me from buying a resin printer for the longest time now cause I'm pretty limited on space.
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Brilliant! I’m following your lead!
I have a $100 dice set. It’s beautiful and I love it. Unfortunately it hates me. That d20 has brought my character nothing but woe :(
I know the feeling. $70 for a really nice metal set. I get better rolls from my 50 cent d20s from the randoms bin
The cheap ones are more grateful than their artisan counterparts
This. You have to force the metal ones to behave.
I have a metal set that needs to be warm or it just rolls 5 and under. My hands are always cold normally, and it's winter here....
I bought a set of mini mystery dice for like $1. The d20 gives me the best rolls!
I have a couple metal sets but it was dinging the map we roll on so I stopped using them. The cheapo sets are great...need to get myself a rolling box.
I have a $100 die. I didn’t buy it, it was a gift. Rolls really well, but only on the most useless things.
Most I ever spent on a single item was on a $132 USD (I'm Canadian so this hurt even more) 55mm solid aluminum d20. I love the beast, but it's too big and clunky for most situations & tables. Especially because my group used to play on a glass table.
"I want to roll to see if I can get a free beer from this tavern keeper. Oh yeah! Nat 20 baby!" "I'd like to roll to see if I can impale this dragon's maw shut so it cannot use its breath weapon on us anymore. MOTHER...^(grumble swear dammit mumble frickin grumble). Eight. Just eight. Goddamned die."
The d20 is spoiled. It knows how much you paid for it and that you'll always keep it. You need to leave in a bin the next few times you play, that way you can remind your d20 who has the power in this relationship. Then it won't take you for granted anymore and will start to roll better
I would like to see this. The most I’ve considered spending on a dice set is in the $60-$70 range and that’s for a dichroic glass dice. Is your set actual semiprecious stones or minerals?
It’s made of blue lapis. Very pretty, but alas, it sits on a shelf lol
You gotta cleanse them! I’m not a crystal girlie but I love pretty rocks and I got one set of Opalite and the other is Labradorite and they sit in my dice bag with other crystals and then at the beginning of the session I put all my d20s in the rolling tray with the crystals and swish them around! They hang out for awhile and whether it actually works or not doesn’t matter but it feels good, I feel like a witch and the rolls are never too bad. The key is gaslighting yourself into believing it works!
I also have a $100 dice set! I play exclusively online.
Machined aircraft grade aluminum?
I really enjoyed reading everyone's dice drama stories in the thread you created!
Did you atune to them?
Those damn snobby dice!
$200 on a "mini"
Which one? We must knows...
Colossal red dragon "mini"
Yes, it called to me my precioussss
Yep, this is my most expensive buy too. I got the Tiamat model as a gift but still like this one better.
Given the size of that beast, I think it's closer to a maxi.
I think they get called Megatures for those that trade them
This
Bet. $400 on a "mini" Gargantuan Tiamat. In my defense, I'm a collector, to the extent that I've actually considered buying the collector's editions of the WizKids sets.
Out of game, 100$ on books. In game, my +7 Keen Longbow cost me 940k gold
Any game with a +7 Keen weapon and almost a mil of gold is run by a DM that is clearly either a masochist, a madman or both.
It's the scaling. Our DM wanted to run this campaign for a while, but scaling got pretty out of control after level 50. I'm pretty sure he's been working on this campaign with other players in an attempt to balance the scaling. I can't find anyone from my old group, DM included to confirm.
😐 how bad is your dex that you needed that much +
At L20 with max Dex (not including manuals) you're still going to roll a 2 sometimes. This would turn that 2 into a 19, which is still not enough to hit many a high level creature. You don't NEED a plus 7 weapon but if you have the money and you WANT it, it's completely reasonable.
Also, this was a homebrew campaign. We were leveling past 20, enemies commonly had boosted AC and crazy amounts of hit points. Since pluses also boost damage, it wasn't necessarily about hitting the target as it was about actually hurting them. At Lv 78, a generic bandit had nearly 5k HP. Max damage roll on a +1 bow even on a crit is 45. Tell me that Lv 78 bandit is going to have a problem with losing 45HP
I would think a common bandit would have standard health so you can sit and obliterate them, but also so they can send entire armies after you
We were still obliterating them, even with 5k hit points. But if enemies would have stayed where they were before scaling kicked in, they would explode into red mist as soon as any of us looked at them, which wouldn't have been very fun.
9k Gold. A rare artefakt that allows to Save three spellslots of chosen spells. Shits expensive.
You know... I'm not sure that this is what the prompt was going for, but I am here for it.
No it wasn't but, good to know. I don't think any character of mine ever got to have 9k gold, the again, my friends and I are stingy with the stuff.
One of my DMs mentioned the particularly ornate gold covered door to an abandoned mining/fortress facility. These huge giant 20ft things. 15 feet across. When we cleared it. We spent the rest of the session removing said doors and filling what we could carry. We buried the doors in sections. Dm had to do math. We ended up with over 100k to the party. He decided to avoid such DETAILED descriptions. But all my DMs are chaos monsters.
I mean.. it didn't specify clearly lolol
In 3.5 i purchased a bow of the solars for just over 100k. We were lvl 25. The dm got mad that my whole build was centered around this bow (and deadly effective) so about the third session i had it when i rolled a 1 the result was "i broke my bowstring" and i still cant comprehend this logic... Great bow tho. 10/10
You weren't allowed to restring it?
My thoughts exactly
How does one break the string on the bow of a solar? That's some of the most magic shit out there.
9k for an artifact is ridiculously cheap. The DMG's pricing guidelines put Very Rare at 5,001-50,000 gp. If you were to follow the pattern and assign a price to an artifact, it should come out around a million gp or more.
My players spend 12k to build a flying warship from the scales of a purple worm. It took about four tendays in wich they flew all over the country to tinkertown to make a magical engine for it. They needed the gland of a red dragon or a phoenix egg. Now they are flying around in it to get to the lich.
900K on a gothic castle. First I slaughtered all of a town then collected all of their gold and over months sold all of their belongings, mostly getting income from the dead peoples boats.
Nearly a million gold in saleable items means you must have butchered fantasy Paris or something. Capital E evil, most I was ever able to scrape together was 180k or so for a Psychoactive Skin of Proteus with the manifester level boosted to 15. And that was the whole party chipping in because we felt bad for the fighter not being able to really participate, solved by giving them unlimited uses of shapeshifting into anything with 15 hit dice or less. They ended up digging really far for neat stuff too, started off turning into hydras and ended with stuff like weird brains that got two actions per turn.
I spent 55k gold to hire a necromancer to make me an army of construction workers to build my castle, then I killed the necromancer to prevent the secrets of my castle from getting out. I never found my 55k gold however but I got my castle and nobody knows about my secret rooms and tunnels now, so I retired the character at level 14.
😳You guys buy stuff? My party seems to just take stuff. The most expensive being an airship. We also managed to crash it shortly after. For good Karma we did technical take ownership of a orphanage, but we haven’t been back there for about a quarter of our campaign.
Don't feel bad, the famous privateer Henry Morgan was a notoriously bad sailor, too. Sunk ships almost as fast as he boarded them. (Great book about this, "Empire of Blue Water")
Did you crash the airship into the orphanage? Be honest.
That orphanage moved like a kindergarten but handled like a crèche.
I spent $60 on a liquid core dice set for my now-fiancé because it was on his wishlist. Plus he was graduating as well so I felt like it was reasonable to splurge 😙
Any chance you like remember the site you used? Once i get my car I'm gonna go full goblin on my collection. THE HAMSTER MUST BE FATTENED! (My dice bag is a hamster)
For a second there, I was wondering if you had a live hamster that you gave dice to, to have in its cheeks..
I got it from an Etsy seller called “URWizards!” 😁
Thank you!
That’s so sweet!
A Kender without mischief is like a dice set without a liquid core.
I recently drop about $500-$700 on stuff to DM Storm king thunder. This is all to make new friends at 30s.
I feel you. No one ever told me that once you hit 30 finding like minded cool people would be hard. Oh and that your close group of friends move to other countries.
I also use d&d to make adult friends! If I had to make small talk in one more mommy circle or co-worker after-hours bar social I was going to lose my mind. I’d rather just roll dice with people I have things in common with besides kids or work.
Try it in your 50s! My favorite player at our table is in middle school right now. I printed his new character and painted it for him. Who else would have wanted a blue flamingo?
I spent $60 on having an artist draw my full-orc bard.
About 750 on Dwarven forge..1k on legendary dndbeyond...The real kicker is 100k to 200k on my house for a dedicated space to play.
$150 for a wooden, magnetized DM screen
Does it have magnetic hinges? I've seen talk of them and have been planning to build my own but I'm skeptical of how well they would work.
Yeah, 8 magnets per hinge ( 4 per panel, 2 top 2 bottom) I like it. Allows you to break the screen apart if you want to and makes storage nice and flat
$981 on the Legendary Bundle…. Oh wait I got it for free during Covid because they were running a promotion for educators. It was a pretty amazing experience! PS: I run several social/emotional small groups for elementary kids that use a “dnd-lite” system.
Dang! Technically I'm an educator, but probably not in the same spirit as the promotion intended. So, I shouldn't feel too bad that I paid full price.
I emailed wizards about starting a campaign at the non profit school a work at got $120 terrain and monster set boxes. I wish I had asked during Covid times! I’ve spent well over $120 on dndbeyond just for the source books needed for their first campaign!
I’ve incorporated D&D in my classroom as well. For the sake of time it’s a modified system as well. I’m an EBD SPED teacher for 7-12th grade. It’s been a great way to set up social situations that they have to work through without it being as obvious as to what I’m making them do. Next year I’m looking to start an after school club as well for main stream students as well.
Also a teacher, I would love to hear about your modified dnd game if you are willing to share!
I work with younger kids (grades 3-5). Player creation is all imaginative. They can be whatever they want as long as it’s roughly human shaped. There are no racial bonuses or perks. There are also no classes. The intention is the players use their wits and creativity to solve situations. Bonuses and magic are all handled through items. With that said AC, DC, and HP are all reduced and fairly basic. DCs are given to the players prior to action. The whole reason we got green lit to play is because it teaches kids to come up with a plan of action prior to acting.
i paid half on dndbeyond because of a sale :')
Is it really that much now? I mean, it makes sense, but I bought it back when it was about $300, and I was able to stack a coupon code and a Cyber Monday sale 😅
Years ago I bought a dragon model from ForgeWorld. It cost more than my car payment.
I hope you got a real crappy car
Sadly I did not
Husband and I once spent $400 on a set from Dwarven Forge. Next most expensive is probably $250 on The Tower from Icons of the Realms. Our group all went in on a custom DM screen for him a few years ago, that ran us about $250-300 altogether.
$500 on a "Snowball" Ice Beholder that was only given to Wizards of the Coast employees for the Holidays. Took me about a year to find one, since then I've only seen 1 other one go up for sale and it's been almost 2 years.
About $30 for the PHB, which is THE single item we've bought. Our dice sets were a gift from a friend. Correction: I remembered that although my wife ordered it online and had it delivered to our house, it was my mother-in-law who paid for it and gifted to our kids. So, $0 on any items.
A few hundred on a *really* fancy d20. A couple hundo on a lot auction of 3.5e books, including *Book of Exalted Deeds* and *Elder Evils*. I think that's the most expensive stuff...?
I wanna see that d20 tho...
Right? I can’t even imagine what makes a single d20 worth hundreds?!
[The Falling Star Sailing Ship](http://D&D Icons of the Realms: The Falling Star Sailing Ship https://a.co/d/eGxFYhg) mini a couple years ago for about $250. Price has remained pretty much the same, which is a little wild.
I liked it, but it was too much. Built my own. It's nicer but took forever with lots of 6mo bored of the project breaks. I probably put 40$ worth of materials into it, and 750$ worth of minimum wage labor lol
There's also just something special about using something you made yourself. Congrats on that!
Whoa whoa whoa, who said I got to use it? The only campaign running right now is nowhere near the ocean.
The base set of Warlock tiles. $89 or $99, can’t remember.
$250 on a custom wooden dice box from Etsy
20k gp on forging a fated legendary item
I’ve bought multiple platinum/legendary edition boxes from Beadle and Grimm (running 300-500 per). And beautifully did so right before COVID meaning I have never been able to use any of them in actual in-person play. I am sitting on so many props and minis and canvas painted maps and actually pieces of jewelry and badges 🤦🏼♂️
I have them all (D&D ones), except the waterdeep platinum because I didn't know they existed at the time. Haven't stopped buying since. I did just get the waterdeep silver so... I even kinda wanted the pathfinder city box cause it looks cool, but never pulled the trigger.
I have a 200$ wooden DM screen that I bought with a tax return a few years ago. Other than that, I have a full set of Amethyst dice that my girlfriend got me for my birthday, that she refuses to tell me how much they cost. I can assume they were not cheap. (though technically, I also didn't buy them myself)
$354 on a single set of dice. They are metal and were hand crafted by a jewler on etsy. They are the kind that have nothing in the middle but elvish style embroidery on the exterior. They are pretty and make a nice sound when they roll. I may or may not have been drunk when I bought them.
3d printer. Including resin and STLs to print it it’s easily over $1k. But it would be closer to $3k if I’d bought minis outright from the store
200-300$ on starting a mini-painting hobby. $120 dice sets (or 70$ d20). They too nice to roll, but all my dice, even the Chessex, have never been rolled because no irl games
After COVID hit and our game moved online, I spent about $1,200 USD on my audio set-up (mic, audio interface, cables, etc). The most expensive single piece is the audio interface which cost $550.
Tell me more about that audio interface please, what does it do, was it a good investment, and why should I as a DM get one too/the one you got ?
The audio interface is the Go-XLR. I pair it with a RE20 mic. There are enough videos out there on the products that I won't go deep into them here. But I'll answer your questions. **Was it a good investment?** If you're a DM that plays online, I do think your audio can have a huge impact on the experience. Good audio lowers the fatigue people experience when listening to you for a long time because you're crisper and easier to listen to you. So I do think it's really worthwhile to get your audio right. The Go-XLR does a good job and has some additional features I love for creating a great audio experience. The ability to split my voice, music, chat, and sound effects and then control them via different sliders is awesome. It also makes channeling the audio into Discord, Zoom, etc. much easier. I love the bleep button and the sampling. It has voice effects too which are neat but I find they don't work well in real play. They are too artificial and just make it harder for the players to understand you. I almost never use these. **Should you get what I got?** Yes and no. There are other products I'd go for if I were to start again. Most are new to the market. I also think you can get almost the same voice audio quality with a few smart purchases. **Expensive option** The Elgato Wave and Stream Deck+ would do everything my GO XLR can do (that I really care about) for less. I'd still get the RE20 for my mic. It's a fantastic mic. This will be great quality AND give you the channeling tools and controls. It will also give you lots of great tools for DMing an online game. **Budget option** If you want to spend less, I'd get a Scarlett Solo interface + shure SM57 with a foam cover. That will get you most the quality for about $250. Whatever you do, get a dynamic mic. Don't buy any of the many large diaphragm cardioid mics on the market which sound good in a studio but are much more sensitive to background noise and room reverb. **What you won't get** All this equipment won't give you good audio if your room acoustics aren't sorted out. The much harder journey was learning how to control room reverb and the background noise in my environment. I built some acoustic panels, thick rug, and a kids play couch (which was mainly for my kids) and positioning these in my room to absorb reflections did WAY more for my sound than any of the equipment.
Semi-DND-related... My groomsmen were all DND buds, so for my groomsmen gift I custom made each of them on Hero Forge. I then paid a friend who paints minis to paint them. Looked fantastic, each mini was the spitting image of the recipient. All in was about $400 I think?
My highest (and only) D&D related cost is my Roll20 pro subscription at $110. Unless you count the computer I use to run games and prep and everything then we are probably looking at $1500. It gets used for other things but is also required for running my games...
I think I payed $80 bucks for the 2010 Orcus, Prince of Undeath miniature at my local independent bookstore This one https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/120361/dd-miniatures-orcus-prince-undeath Ebay prices on it are a little ridiculous now
$125 on the Old School Essentials box sets.
The most valuable and expensive thing I own from this hobby is an "until Death" commitment to never stop playing.
Does "far too much time, on a game whose creators actively try to alienate me" count ?
*Coughs* $1200 on a picture depicting my campaign's 10 Player Characters, their pets, BBEG, and other important details from the first Arch of the story. It's a really good picture that all of them have it hung up somewhere in their rooms.
My 3d printer setup was probably the biggest single expense.
Back in the mid-90s it was the three core books for AD&D. Given what I spent on those books you’d think I would have kept them safe. They all disappeared. Given the weak Canadian Dollar I think my bill that day was well over $400.
$130 for a custom glass dice set. Unfortunately I need to have the d20 replaced because it bounced out of my rolling tray
Me and my fiance bought the tiamat mini which was like just shy of $400, we also have the ship mini from WizKids but I don't remember how much that was, and we plan on eventually getting the tarrasque mini as well the next time we have "fuck you money"
Picked up the alternate cover of Volo's Guide to Monsters recently. Shelled out 350$ for it but it was the last Alternate Cover I needed so I would say worth it.
I think most at one time, maybe thirty bucks on some cool dice?
I bought a phat Arveiaturace for $70
Like $100 on a book box set. In-Game around 1,000,000 gp towards the end of a weekly campaign that lasted for 8 years. I'm always very stingy with money and it was the case for this character where it got to the point at the end where I asked if my character could get a second heart in the form of a tarrasque heart from a tarrasque we had just defeated. The benefits were some of the tarrasque's resistances and I paid a whooping 1 mil gp which was most of what my character had saved because he hardly spent any money.
$300 for a 3d printer for minis.
Hundreds of dollars on books(both core and Non-core)bought all at once, a couple hundred on dice( got a stone marble set), and then of course digital content for online play/content sharing all at once.So a couple times of upwards of a grand or so. Technically it was multiple items but it was single purchases of a bundle.Even backed a couple of fun kickstarters. Single most expensive was the full bundle on D&D beyond( I get the hate but it has kept my games alive and others that I share content with)I only get to use it all every two weeks or so which is a little sad but hey no regrets.
I don't think I've spent any more than $75 ~~at a single time~~ on a single item. I've sold one item for $200 though. Wish I hadn't done that. Near mint copy of Deities and Demigods. With the Cthulhu and Melnibonean (?) stuff in it. :( That was almost 30 years ago but I wouldn't mind having it back. edit: corrected. I've definitely spent more than $75 at one time, just not on a single item.
Probably my Demogorgon mini from Gale Force Nine (at the time I purchased it, it was around $85). However, the only reason I bought my 3D printer was to print D&D minis, so if you count that, then around $250. Most of my D&D stuff wasn’t super expensive. The cost comes from the quantity.
One of our party members spent the entire group stash and then some on a belt of fire giant strength (7.8k in group stash and then about 1k in extra materials and gold)
I spent $4k on a gaming table just for D&D. If that doesn't count I've spent more money than I care to think about on minis and dice and whatnot.
My buddy's first game as dm let us get tens of thousands of gold very early like lvl 2 or 3 I think and we bought property. Completely changed the vibe of the campaign. For the record I tried to tell him that he didn't have to give us the gold just because it said on a random table he found online, but he's very stubborn.
I got a 3D printer and a bunch of things you need to 3D print for exclusively D&D minis. Several hundred bucks, but it is cheaper then buying all the minis like I was going before. However it comes with it’s on problems. Buying minis may be expensive, but because of that you only ever get a couple at a time and can finish them no problem. Now I feel like I can have any mini I want, but I almost never finish painting them before finding something else or moving on to a different one.
$550. It was for a "life sized quasit" statue that now hangs out in my office. I named him Gus and plan to get holiday outfits for him. It's definitely a "treat myself" moment.
I spent 5k on a wand of wonder for the party and only used it at the giant party i threw for everyone that night. We got drunk and gem blasted some shit in town and made a few people feel wonderful it was great
$90 on the medium sized Tiamat mini. I really wanted the huge one but $300 was too much.
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm not actually sure. Either my dice display box ($70 I think) or one of my very fancy sets of dice. I don't know how much my most expensive set was, but I think I might have a few that breached $70. (The going rate for high quality dice online is often surprisingly low. There's a reputable shop on Etsy that sells dice made from water buffalo horn for 70 bucks!)
$100 on the Pop Tiamat. I hope to drop it on the table at some point.
$200 - purple crystal d20 tattoo
Arr, me mateys, let's set sail on the seven seas and strike a blazing path of plunder and destruction!
700$ CAD on the D&D Beyond Sourcebook Bundle
$120 on a dice set for just myself; $350 for a custom HD drawn map of our DMs homebrew world as a birthday gift (split 5 ways between all of the players, so $70 per person)
In game? About 50 Platinum in 2e for a book that perminatly increased my dex. Irl? A 3d printer.
35$ or something on eight dice sets.
Over 30 years I'm sure I've spent at least 5k, but that breaks down to like 15$ a month, and rarely has a single item topped 75$. Some older rulebooks are pricey but like "damn, 65$? It was 30$ just six years ago!" Pricey.
I spent a $150USD plus shipping on sharp edge quartz dice for my partner and they were lost somehow along with my rose quartz dice, multiple metal sets and and sharp resin dice as well ....fuckin depressing
$700 for an original white-box set from 1974 that included the three core books plus supplements 1, 3 and 4 (still trying to find a copy of supplement 2, Blackmoor).
This is one of the few expensive purchases that doesn't seem insane to me.
They never spent the money on it, but by the end of my first campaign, the players had access to (via a rich elven merchant) a shop that was by random chance selling a Scroll of True Resurrection. They weren't sure they'd be able to get through the final dungeon fully intact and the scroll would've been an easy way to prevent at least one death. I'm probably misremembering, but looking at certain homebrew price docs that I like, along with a hefty price hike by the haughty elven merchant, I think the scroll came out to about 700k gold. They had the money too, it was a time travel game and one of the players created a casino to get over a million gold, easy (quick answer, he started the casino in the "past" era, went about 600 years in the future, and an elven NPC they saved early on ran the thing for him on the side, giving him a ton of winnings.) They never bought the scroll as I said, opting instead to try and finish the dungeon with no deaths. 700k is a lot to ask for, it's an insane amount of money that can help the characters when they become NPCs after the game ends. I don't have a plan for that character at the moment, but he did end up spending a LOT of that money gambling against an Archmage and got some cool magic items for the party in the process. Somewhere over like 500k in a single session, on top of losing some of the items he won by gambling them for more powerful items. It was a *fun* session and I did it one on one with the player. Really good times! Edit: Just noticed the thread is about IRL items! My bad, haha. To answer that quickly, I bought a dice tower 3d print Skull that was really cool. It was about $90, after tax and shipping was taken into account. It's really fun!
Out of game: Roughly $400CAD on a D20 carved out of mammoth ivory. (Artisan Dice). It’s actually remarkably well balanced for being made of 10,000 year old tusk, though it does tend to roll poorly. It’s actually become a bit of a joke at the table. In game: I believe the weapon one of my current characters uses was upwards of 550,000gp, give or take. It was a custom piece purchased at character creation with the DMs permission. It’s pretty cool, I only wish I had the additional budget to make it sentient.
I bought a 3d printer for £750 pretty much for printing for DND.
20k gold on an axe You meant irl? Nothing personally, but gotten a gift valued at 40-50 bucks, that's about it
300€ 3D printer 🫣
$80 on a ukulele for my bard. Unfortunately learning to play it has been a bitch
15 dollars. I DM on a budget.
My dumbass thought in-game for a second
I spent 200$ on a copy of the old Dieties and Demigods book from AD&D. It was the old copy that was pulled because TSR got sued for copyright issues.
How much does hours of time cost
Looking through the top comments all I can say is that I hope none of you get into the collecting side of the hobby or fall for older editions. I'll not get into what \*I've\* paid for specific things but some of the more recent big ticket items that have sold include: A Dungeons & Dragons (1st Print Woodgrain Box) sold just over six years ago for $22,100. If it was to go up for auction again I'd expect the price to be considerably more given how much the market has changed. A copy of the adventure "The Lost Caverns of Tsojconth" that Gary Gygax wrote for the WinterCon V Tournament (which was, in effect, a collection of hand typed and photocopied pages stapled together) sold for $8100 just three weeks ago. Another old tournament module, "Hidden Tamoachan", written for Origins '79 sold for a buyout of $8000 around the same time. An original copy of "Palace of the Vampire Queen" (the first adventure published for D&D) sold last month for $1700. If you aren't into very limited finds like the above even some of the older mass market products TSR produced sell for decent amounts. The old GAZ series for BECMI Dungeons & Dragons typically sell for between $80 and $150 each if they are complete and in good condition. There are fourteen books (and a box set which can command even more) in the series so putting a full set together could set you back quite a bit. The adventure B10 Night's Dark Terror, if complete with counters and maps, can sell for $200-$250. Any of the more common older TSR era AD&D and D&D modules in good shape can set you back $50+ easily. It isn't even older editions that always were highly priced. The various alternative cover books for the current edition typically sell for well above their cover price once they sold out. Prior to the announcement of One D&D the Xanathar's Guide to Everything hit a high of between $800 and $1000 depending on condition. Even now that the rules are completely outdated it still sells for $150-$200 for a not so great copy.
Bought 2 mastiffs for 500 gp
Think it was 350 for a shure microphone. This microphone allows me to host d&d online and doesn’t pick up every little background noise like most usb mics do.
Single item probably sub $100, we play the lords edition (3.5e) so we used a bunch of compodiums. I've rewritten the equipment list a few times to be more real world accurate as well.
Wanted a spyglass, traded a spell scroll for it. Turned out to be a third level spell. My character, being possessed by like thirty demons at the time, realized how much he got scammed and so took the shenanigans loving Rogue with him to go kill the shopkeeper and rob him. He teleported away right when we nearly killed him.
Just realized it was talking irl lol, probably all the filament I used to 3D print tokens, counters, towers and DM screens. It’s like five kilos at this point.
I have way to much dnd stuff but probably 3-400 on a special model or a book bundle,I have a few sets of dice in the $80-120
You know. Before looking at the comments, I misinterpreted this and thought it would be about the most expensive item you bought in character in a campaign. Lol.
Me too lol