Average Monthly Expenses of a Pathfinder Player:


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(this is based on the average age thread)

Making money is great, but we all have to *pay bills*.

About how much are your monthly bills?

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My bills are about $2,000 per month.


My monthly bills personally are about $700.

Important factors:
I live in midtown Altanta, GA (not in some country hovel)
I make less than 30K presently
I have a spouse that makes more money than I (at the moment)


$3000


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Just on gaming stuff? ;-)


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That was going to be my question: Are you talking how much we spend on gaming stuff, or do you want to know people's total cost of living?

I'd be happy to share the former, but the latter is private, and I won't be sharing that on a public messageboard.

On any given month, I usually spend somewhere between $50 and $200 on gaming stuff.

(According to my last credit card statement, I spent about $400 in Dec/Jan, although $150 of that was backing Richard Pett's The Blight Kickstarter and $85 was for the three 5e core books.)


Haladir wrote:
That was going to be my question: Are you talking how much we spend on gaming stuff, or do you want to know people's total cost of living?

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Yes, total cost of living.

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Sorry, but I'm with Hal on this. Definitely not something the internet needs to know.


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The cost of a life?

Priceless, in some circles, $10k to look like an accident in others.


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You want life?

Mail me blank check Monday, you get life by next Tuesday.

Sovereign Court

Eleventy billion dollars ... Or maybe a bit less.


I live on disability, and after the cost of Medicaid is taken out, I draw $963 dollars a month. A MONTH. I live below the poverty level for even a single person. After paying my bills I often have less than $70 to live on for the rest of the month. I get food stamps to supplement that, but I still have to have help from my ex wife from time to time. Fortunately, we're on very good terms and she understands the hard time I have getting by. The vast majority of my PF library comes from the kindness of friends.


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Please. Nigerian princes look in my bank account and feel so bad they actually DO leave money.


Yeah, not really comfortable sharing info about my financial situation with the internet at large.

In terms of what I spend on RPG related stuff... I'll go months at a time without purchases and then splurge. CanCon was on a few weeks back, which is my big yearly spend for it. $800 in a day on RPG stuff and some boardgames.


Lets just say as a resident of upstate NY, I pay allot more in bills than I should based on my home and standard of living.


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One of my players lives rent free, has all of her food provided by someone else, and has no money to spend. She doesn't even clean up after herself.

Well, I call her a player but all she really does is push pencils around and get the dice rolling. No roleplaying to speak of.

(I'm talking about my cat)


Giant kitten jumps on the battle matte, everyone dies! (at least that is what happens at our table, thankfully, tis a joke)


I spend all that I earn, so far I don't think anyone is looking for me to collect any debts, so, meh.

Liberty's Edge

Not applicable.


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By the power of PDFs, let my gaming costs be reduced!


GM_Beernorg wrote:
By the power of PDFs, let my gaming costs be reduced!

What level spell is Reduce Expenses?


Scythia wrote:
GM_Beernorg wrote:
By the power of PDFs, let my gaming costs be reduced!
What level spell is Reduce Expenses?

Epic, unfortunately.


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Sunder Credit Card is only 1st level, but you'll need a Ki Pool.

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Scythia wrote:

One of my players lives rent free, has all of her food provided by someone else, and has no money to spend. She doesn't even clean up after herself.

Well, I call her a player but all she really does is push pencils around and get the dice rolling. No roleplaying to speak of.

(I'm talking about my cat)

At least she keeps herself clean. (I hope.)

I'm not entirely sure how much I spend on gaming stuff, which tells me that it's not more than a few % of my takehome pay. OK, there was that metal dice KS I backed for over $400 a few months ago, but that included at least a few dice for seven other people. (Loving Spouse teaches HS chemistry and physics, and will have the use of the nerdiest set of density blocks in existence. None of these cubes--d20s in standard plastic, magnesium, aluminum, titanium, stainless steel, copper, and tungsten.)


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GM_Beernorg wrote:
Giant kitten jumps on the battle matte, everyone dies! (at least that is what happens at our table, thankfully, tis a joke)

That sorta happened in one of my games...


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It's gone up recently. There is finally a game store in the local mall!
That's around 38$ a month. I'm going to ask them if they can order unchained for me.

If I can get a gaming group together, add the cost of food court egg rolls(about a dollar) and won ton soup(almost 2 dollars).


Dangit. Now I want Chinese food.

I just figured up the cost of the four books I want this year, all of them hardcover because I don't care for large .pdfs nor do I have the means to effectively take them to a game (desktop PC. No laptop or tablet). To some, it's just pocket change. To me, it's a phenomenal sum.

Yeah, pity party in progress. And I'm outta cheese. All I got is whine.


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GM_Beernorg wrote:
Giant kitten jumps on the battle matte, everyone dies! (at least that is what happens at our table, thankfully, tis a joke)

That's because the kitten is actually a miniature for the tarrasque.


Well, they do sleep for ages, wake up, make a lot of racket and knock things around before going back to sleep. Yep. Sounds like a tarrasque.


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Add the cost of a laser pointer, for kitty monster control.

"Why is there a red dot on the white dragon?", crash!

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DungeonmasterCal wrote:

Dangit. Now I want Chinese food.

I just figured up the cost of the four books I want this year, all of them hardcover because I don't care for large .pdfs nor do I have the means to effectively take them to a game (desktop PC. No laptop or tablet). To some, it's just pocket change. To me, it's a phenomenal sum.

Yeah, pity party in progress. And I'm outta cheese. All I got is whine.

Been there, done that, and yeah--it really sucks. Though it's been quite a while since I had to deal with that level of enforced economy.


I think that level of information is pretty sensitive, though I do have it pretty well figured out in my head and verify on paper once in a while.


As a rather new GM, the last year I spent roughly 30$ per month on Paizo PDFs. I guess it will drop, in favor of collecting pawns.

Yes, the question was rather about total expenses, but I don't want to answer that. Keep also in mind not everyone here is from the US - other countries have a lower or higher living standard.


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To avoid the sensitivity issue, and keep it gaming related, we could declare in Gold pieces.

My lifestyle would take about 12 gold per month. I really go through the 50ft coils of rope, bullseye lanterns, and bags of marbles.

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