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From: Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [NBC Miami] 36-year-old makes $37,000 a year leading Dungeons &
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Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 01:02:40 +0200
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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.

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