Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Justisaur Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd Subject: Re: [NBC Miami] 36-year-old makes $37,000 a year leading Dungeons & Dragons games Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 17:21:10 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2024 02:21:11 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="67b0f0ea8112d5bd04435cc25597efb9"; logging-data="702636"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Ueny7adhDdsyRVw9sEfvf0JDPmGUH3eE=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:qp9ive3xRGsGD+AI8iAQYezKF/A= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3208 On 4/26/2024 4:02 PM, Kyonshi wrote: > On 4/26/2024 5:22 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: >> >>>> On 4/25/2024 10:49 AM, Kyonshi wrote: >> https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/business/money-report/36-year-old-makes-37000-a-year-leading-dungeons-dragons-games-if-youre-doing-it-anyway-you-might-as-well-get-paid/3294720/ >>>> 36-year-old makes $37,000 a year leading Dungeons & Dragons games: If >>>> ‘you're doing it anyway, you might as well' get paid >>>> By Mike Winters,CNBC and Raffi Paul,CNBC... >> >> Personally, I can't imagine anything worse than making my hobby my >> job. It turns the thing I enjoy most into something I /have/ to do. >> One of the reasons I enjoy the things I do is that I /don't/ have to >> them. The worst parts of DMing are that feeling of obligation trying >> to pump out the next adventure; that you're players are waiting on you >> to create another interesting and fun experience. Especially when >> there's a deadline ("Oh god, we're meeting up to play in TWO days and >> I haven't even started the final dungeon!!!"). >> >> Throw in the idea that people are PAYING me for the privilege? I'd go >> nuts. Not to mention, I'm sure quality and experimentalism would go >> down. Can't take risks, not if you want that filthy lucre to keep >> coming in; just pump out pablum. >> >> DM for money? No thank you. Not me. > > > there was the idea floating around at one point that players would > actually chip in some money for every session so the DM could afford > buying all those expensive books. But I never saw it done properly. Never saw that, but I did get splat books as gifts. Of course the rule I had I wouldn't allow anything in a splat book unless I owned it, probably helped, along with a free pass to try anything once if you were the one who bought it for me. :D -- -Justisaur ø-ø (\_/)\ `-'\ `--.___, ¶¬'\( ,_.-' \\ ^'