What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into?

plactagonic@sopuli.xyz to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 705 points –

Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.

Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.

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D&D. When I got back into it as an adult it was mostly because I could get into it for $0. I was dead broke at the time. I pirated the books downloaded the free basic rules šŸ˜‰ on my trash find laptop and was good to go.

But man once I had money it turns out I really like collecting books and the D&D ones are not cheap. I do not want to think about how much I've spent.

The real flood gates opened when the license controversy happened and I decided to try other RPGs. Multiple core books of multiple RPGs gets expensive fast šŸ˜

At least other systems tend to be cheaper and more condensed. The D&D brand tax is real.

Iā€™m a few hundred dollars in and Iā€™m actually on my way out thanks to their grossness this spring. Iā€™m too slow to have gone for many modules, but rules books were super fun and thus a money sink. Iā€™m trying to move my group over to PbtA (cheap by comparison) or Genesys (have you seen the cost of those DICE?!).