I got into tabletop gaming in the late highschool/early college years, y’know, as you do, and I thought, “oh, this is neat, I can have fun with friends and draw my own maps on this dry erase mat, print out a couple paper character sheets and one set of dice, and maybe a couple books as I can afford them so I’m not snagging the DM’s copy, not even a hundred dollars a year.”
And then Dwarven Forge ran a Kickstarter for Game Tiles.