> Unless you want to play with no book, no minis, no map, and a completely home-brewed campaign with all bespoke characters and stories. If you aren't concerne

> Unless you want to play with no book, no minis, no map, and a completely home-brewed campaign with all bespoke characters and stories. If you aren't concerned about legality, all the books are readily available without paying wizards (heck, most of the recent ones and many of the older ones are also legally available that way in deas tree form in the secondhand market); you can buy miniatures that aren't specifically D&D licensed (lots of people use them in playing D&D, whether alone or mixed with licensed D&D minis; it has no effect one way or the other on the game), there are plenty of D&D-compatible maps with no licensing relationship to Wizards. Its very easy to play D&D without paying Wizards.