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From: Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.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 17:21:10 -0700
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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

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